AN "IRISH CATHOLIC CHURCH."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 370, 21 May 1880, Page 11

AN "IRISH CATHOLIC CHURCH."

(Frem the Oregon Catholic Sentinel.)

The question naturally forces itself upon every reflecting mind : Who are these men who thus set themselves up as so many Apostles of a new Christian theory 1 And the answer thereto is best given in the roll-call oi their names : McNamara, Quinn, Wood, and Broderick — all " bad eggs," broken and addled. Men who having broken their vows of chastity have become unclean beasts ; men who preached a temperance they never practised ; men who gave themselves not to poverty and prayer, but rather to the pride of life and the acquisition of wealth ; men who sought after the treasures and pleasures of this world ratker than those heavenly treasures promised to the faithful steward in the Gospel.

And these are the holy rascals who are heralded forth to the world as worthy to establish an " American Independent Church" — a Churwh whose " independence" will be marked by its being entirely independent of Almighty God. He will have no share in this soulsnaring scheme of Satan. His shepherds are not the " soiled doves" of the sanctuary, nor is their prominence purchased at the expenae of their purity. His Church needs neither European nor American cognomen whereby to distinguish it from the pigmy parasites of Protestantism which surround if, and whose followers ape a Christianity they do not believe in, and recite creeds to which they give no credence. In such a chaos of unbelief these fallen l> Fathers" will find their legitin ate sphere. They will find wives to wed them, they will be flattered and fawned upon by the Beecheristic Biblicisfs, whose lore for them will be measured by their hatred of the true Church oE Christ.

The names of M'Namara and Quinn are familiar to every news2>aper reader as the ranting pair who for many years have striven to establish what they called an " Irish Catholic Church"' in New York. The first-named fallen priest disgraced himself years ago, as we have already published in these columns, and the latter is a more recent pervert through his own libidinous excesses and love for liqaor.

A Catholic colony among the Zulus is projected, it appears. Th account states that Fr. O'Haire, a Catholic priest who has been twelv® years a missionary in South Africa, is now in England with a view o* establishing an Irish colony in the north of the Transvaal, for the purposes of a Catholic mission. He takes out with him on bis return a considerable number of tradesmen and twenty or thirty families, in order to establish a white colony. Father O'Haire describes the Zulus as standing in physical and intellectual capacity supreme among: the savages of the earth, and believes that they may be highly civilised. A peculiar correspondence has just been published at Bristol. A lady, Mrs Edwards, has been refused communion by the vicar of Cheddar on the ground that she had married tho brother of her deceased husband. The Bishop of Bath and Wells, was appealed to, but he supported the vicar. Ultimately Mr John Edwards, the Lady's husband, appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and his reply (London Telegraph) seems the strangest of all. He is quoted as follows : "In similar circumstances my advice has been tnat persons so circumstanced desiring to communicate should go to some church where their history is not known." Mr Edwards, in a further letter, says this advice is somewhat startling, as it recommends persons so situated to obtain the benefit of the Church sacrament, if not by falsa pretences, at any rate by a concealment of the truth." M. Gambetta says that France is " now able to defend herself single-handed if attacked. She, therefore, was in no way alarmed at the increase in the German army, which had, indeed, been long expected."'