A FALSE MIRACLE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 260, 26 April 1878, Page 15

A FALSE MIRACLE.

An alleged " miracle" in Mauch Chunk, Pa., says the Catltolic Review was most indiscreetly made the subject of abundant and ridiculous newspaper remark. Assuming the newspaper reports to have been accurate, it was manifest that "some one had blundered" very seriously. The Archbiahop of Philadelphia, juarked his official sense of the impropriety of the principals in the case by causing the following letter to be read in the churches of Mauch Chunk : The Archbishop having heard and carefully considered the circumstances preceding and accompanying* what is derisively called the Mauch Chunk miracle, said to be wrought on tbe person of a woman whose eccentric piety has neither good sense nor sound Catholic doctrine f*^ its' foundation, requests me to instruct you that, in his judgment it is a 1 delusion and a pious fraud. Without inquiring as to the extent to which others participated in this lamentable folly, he desires to mark the whole proceeding and the principal actors in it with his distinct and unqualified disapprobation and condemnation, and to say that a repetition of anything of the sort in this diocese will t>e visited with the severest censure authorized by t'i • 'mvs of the Church,