THE ANTI-CATHOLIC LECTURER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 326, 18 July 1879, Page 16

THE ANTI-CATHOLIC LECTURER.

The quondam Brother Aloysios, now known to fame as Francis George Widdows, has lately been lecturing against the Catholic Church in Dundee and other Scottish cities, and always with the monks's gown thrown round his person. This, of course, is to giro force to his remarks, although, indeed, they do not require any, being strong and villainous enough in all conscience. His obscene abuse of the Catholic Church in Dundee roused the blood of the Irish Catholics, who mustered in force and prevented him lecturing. A howl was immediately raised by the bigots, who asked in ipious amazement :— " Are we, then, living in a free country ? Is this what our fathers fought and died for ?" One sensible, hard-headed Scotchman, however, the editor of the Dundee Advertiser, who was not led away by the frenzy of the hour, quietly oabled the following ttessace to the Toronto Globe :— ' "Was Widdows convicted at York County Assizes? If so, telegraph lull name, crime, sentence, and date. Answer prepaid," To this message the Dundee paper received the following answer : " Francis George Widdows, convicted July, 1875, (an abominable offence), five months, Central Prison, Toronto." The above (says the Advertiser) needs no comment, and we are sincerely of the same opinion. And these be the men who are honored for maligning the Catholic Church.— Frue Witness.