Who’s Who

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 43, 1 November 1923, Page 33

Who’s Who

Monsignor Noll (says Truth, New York) has published a fifteenth revised edition of his famous pamphlet, in which he shows up the character of a number -of those men and women who have been prominent in defaming- the Catholic Church in America. He f divides them all into seven groups :— - 1. —Fake 'Ex-Priests. ’ ■ They, who are: F. F. Delon, Thomas E., Leydony L. J. King, W. 0. Blac)t, Eli Fricksen, J. H. Dobbyn, Leo von Deßoskey, H. Y. Sullivan, Samuel O’Connor, J. F. Rannie, Sylvester R.i McAlpin, Marry H. Goodwin, Benjamin Clearmont, J. E. Hatfield, W. A. MylwarczykV the , Rev. Kolodzejecik, J. E. Hayes, Roy Crane, M. X. Mockus, 1.- Dennison, James W. Ford. None of these - imposters as ever ordained to the priesthood, and - most of them have very shady records. , aV'.'-^Vv % 2.Other Travelling “Patriots.” 'V';’ . ..j Rudolph Zabek, Ford Hendrickson, the Rev. E. A. Jordon, the Rev. F. B Jordon, William Lloyd Clark, . Sidney Catts, George Bush, C.. W. Bibb, the Rev. N. ; West* broom, W. H. Boles, John Carney, and the Rev. Herman - Myers. _ - ■ ... ■ •3- Publishers of Anti-Catholic Literature. Theodore Walker, founder of the Menace and of the lurch; Gilbert .0. Nations, formerly associated with the Menace, now editor of the Protestant (he has been falsely represented to have been a Federal judge); Billy Parker, of the “Free Press Defence League”; the Tate Thomas E.’ Watson, United States Senator from Georgia and' publisher of several anti-Catholic periodicals; David 0. Irvine, editor of the American Citizen and the Patriotic Digest; Otis L. Spurgeon, founder of the National Voice, a publication of the Menace type, which was suspended “after a few issues; Alma White, editor of the Good Citizen and founder of a sect called “The Pillar of Fire”; Samuel McGerald, author of a book entitled From Pome to Methodism; Sydney D. Pieice, editor of the Danger Signal; Walter Sims, editor of the Christian; William E. Piker, publisher of the Enlightener; J. 111. Hosmer, editor of the Silvertbn (Ore.) Journal. 4- Heads of Anti-Catholic Organisations. William J. Simmons, Edward Y. Clarke, and Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, of .the Ku Klux Klan J. W. Forrest, supreme grand master .of the Sons., and Daughters of Washington Bishop Burt, head of the “Order of the Pathfinders” (popularly known as “P’s”); Charles D. Haines, ’ of the “American Patriots”; the Rev. Aug., K. Barnett, identified with the “Guardians of Liberty,” profitable proposition; George Waldron, organiser of the “Great Secret Order, and James Hamilton, who has been waging the fight against the parochial schools in Michigan. s. Real Ex-Priests. A* Seguin, who was expelled, first from the Canadian diocese of Rimouski, ai;d Joseph Slattery, formerly of the diocese of Dublin, Ireland, a drunkard; Joseph. McCabe, an ex-Franciscan, who left the monastery and the Church in 1896, and now writes more or less anti-Catholic books; Bernard Fresenborg, originally of the diocese of Alton, who left the Church in 1904 and became a Lutheran " preacher; he is the author of an atrocious libel entitled Thirty Years in Hell; Father Chiniquy of the-Quebec diocese, who was suspended and deposed in 1851 he wrote an anti-Catholic book, . which still supplies the “patriotic” sheets with considerable of their “dope”; Fradyssa, an ex-Franciscan of Spain, who was unfrocked on account of immorality; J. J. Crowley, formally excommunicated by the Archbishop of Chicago, author of the Parochial Schod a Curse to the Church, a 'Menace to the Nation-, W. F. McGee, who lost his faith, married,, and joined the “Free Thought Society” of Chicago; Peter A. Fant, a priest of the diocese of Undine, Italy, who fell from grace and joined the Presbyterians; William S. Sullivan, formerly a Paulist, now a Unitarian minister; Paul Miraglia, who ,‘ fcons€crated ” by Archbishop Villatte of the Old Catholics,” but made a formal retractation of his errors m 1916. . 6-Fake Nuns. V . r Hle S Jackson, Mabel McClish, Burke McCarthy, Mary E. Slattery, Maria Monk (died about 1850), Margaret _ b. Shepherd, ' \

7.Real Ex-Nuns! •: Anna Lowry, “Sister Mary' Ethel” (Helen Conroy), “Sister Lucretia” (Elizabeth Schoffen), “Sister. Mary Gonzaga” (real name not known), Edith Gorman. ~ ; : i Any one who wishes information about the true : character and antecedents of any of these agitators can obtain it from Monsignor Noll’s brochure, which, it is interesting to note, in its fifteenth edition repeats the offer of one thousand dollars reward for proof of any of seventeen .stock charges made against the Catholic Church, e.g., that American Catholics cannot be loyal to the United States Government because they owe temporal allegiance to the Pope; that the Pope interferes with American politics; that the Catholic hierarchy controls a political, machine; that Catholics are forbidden to read the Bible; that immorality is common in convents or monasteries; that girls are . forced into Sisterhoods or retained in them against their will; that Catholics seek to destroy the public schools, and so forth. “Defamers of the Church” may be procured from the pamphlet department, International Catholic -Truth Society, 407 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., price 10 cents., postage prepaid. Catholic ? Training-Colleges - - A paper on “Catholic Training Colleges,” by a Religious of the . Sacred Heart, was'read by Sir Francis Anderton at ; the . Catholic Congress at Birmingham. The writer claimed* that no Catholic institutions owed more to Catholic sacrifice Catholic training colleges. Attributing the initiation of the Catholic training college to St. John Baptist de la Salle, she declared that for Catholics teaching was a vocation rather than a career, an apostolate rather than a profession. The Catholic training colleges could only justify themselves by the spirit which they inspired. Bearing testimony to the value of students’ associations, she pleaded for a confederation of all such organisations for Catholic students in secondary schools, in training colleges, and at the universities. Father Reade (headmaster of St. Philip’s Grammar School, Birmingham), who opened the discussion, expressed approval of the suggestion of bringing together all Catholic organisations connected with education. The important time in young people’s lives was from 14 to 18, and without secondary schools there would be a failure. Miss Humphries spoke of the waste of Catholic University women, who could not secure posts in Catholic secondary schools. V-- " Father Martindale .urged the necessity of having a tutorial element in the Cambridge Summer School. He hoped for an enormous increase of Catholic secondary schools for boys.. Tribute" Nuns. •;< Miss Whittaker regretted that some Catholic parents considered Catholic schools not as good as other schools. She urged that there should be some system for making use of Catholic University graduates. ■ V.The Bishop of Brentwood said that Catholic energy so £ai had been directed to maintaining the* primary schools. Catholic people had not been educated to appreciate the necessity, for secondary schools. He considered the difficulty of providing secondary schools for. boys very great They could only do it, generally, with religious communities. Non-Catholics paid a great tribute to the work of convent schools by sending so many of th6ir children to them. These parents wanted their children to . get an education which they thought non-Catholic schools ■ could, not give. In his last pastoral he had urged the need formore boys’ secondary schools. J ~ : Sir Francis Anderton gave examples of the large numher of non-Catholic children attending convent secondary • schools. Thi# was an enormous tribute of respect to the nuns. • ■ ‘ • >- •; ''J'l, .