Show POWER FRO1 ROI1BI Archbishop Corrigans Return Will be Followed ly A WHOLESALE PUBLIC DISCIPLINE Of the Priests In His Diocese Dr Cnrran Will Receive Attention and Father Dncey Will be Kemenbered Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK July Archbishop Corrigan Corri-gan is expected here August 1 The prelates pre-lates return it is thought will be followed by a wholesale public disciplining of the priests in his diocese Dr Burtsell who has been generally censured by the Vatican will be only one of the sufferers All of the holy fathers who will be made to feel tho power of the archbishop are friends of Dr McGlynn They were not punished before because the archbishop had doubts about his authority Now it is said that the cardinal secretary has promised his sup port the archbishop is determined to crush out the last remnant of McGlynnism within his jurisdiction when he reaches New York According to an authority who is conversant conver-sant with all the clerical work in this diocese dio-cese the first priest who is to receive the archbishops attention is the Rev Dr Cur ran formerly assistant at St Stephens church and a devoted follower of Dr Mc Glynn Dr Curran did not break out into open rebellion He obeyed his ecclesiastical superior when he was ordered to leave St Stephens church and go into a country parish but while keeping within the lines of discipline he has at every opportunity shown his sympathy for Dr McGlynn and has done more than any other man to make enemies for the archbishop in Catholic parishes along the Hudson Of course Dr Curran has not committed any overt act but according to clerical authority au-thority the archbishop has received from Rome the power to rebuke at will the priests who still sympathize with Dr Mc Glynn Dr Curran will not be deposed but will be compelled to find a parish in some other diocese Monsignor Bucoyens is likely to be tha next to receive the archbishops attention He is a constant annoyance to Archbishop Corrigan He has shown publicly and he has often shown privately his contempt for the archbishop As is well known beiore the archbishop went to Rome he insisted in-sisted that Father Ducey should dispose of his carriage and horses and daily drives in Central park and also cease taking his meals at Delmonicos The monsignor obeyed his superior but how It is said he presented his servant with his roadsters and lourwheeled vehicle The lackey in return for his masters kindness daily gives Father Decoy a drive along Fifth avenue Father Decoy transferred his patronage pat-ronage from Delmonicos to the St James When tIm archbishop issues a pastoral letter let-ter Father Ducey gets an assistant to read it On one occasion be made an exception That was when the archbishop gave out a letter attacking all sympathizers of Dr McGlynn Father Dacey read this letter himself but ho put so much satire into his tone and smiled so often that the congregation instead in-stead of being solemnly impressed by the archbishops advice were laughing when monsignor left the pulpit Of course it could not be proved that he meant disrespect disre-spect so the archbishop had to suppress his anger Now the archbishop can say He who laughs last laughs best Archbishop Corrigan cannot transfer Father Ducey to a country parish because the latter is an irremovable rector He can suspend him or invite him to go to another diocese Tho latter course is likely to bo adopted as Father Ducey has lately been following the example of Dr Mc Glynn in taking a prominent part in politics poli-tics One assistant of Father Ducey and ono assistant to Dr Burtsell are said to bo on the list of the proscribed A fifth man is a pastor in the neighborhood of Hudson who has taken great delight in expressing in and out of season his admiration of Dr McGlynn There are many other priests in this city who sympathize with Dr Mc Glynn and Dr Burtsell but they have not yet developed courage openly to oppose the authority which can crush them |