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Show IRISH IN ENGLAND DENOUNCE LETTER BY CARDINAL Official of Republican Organization Or-ganization Retort to Pastoral of Bourne LO.VDO.V, F.b. 17. Cr.t Indignation Indigna-tion Was caused among liiah Catholic in Kngland by the pastoral letter written by Cardinal Bourn, archbishop archbish-op of Westminster, which was read In Knglish churches under his jurisdiction jurisdic-tion last Bunday, aaya a, statement Issued here today by Art O'llrien. ec-reUry ec-reUry of the Irish Self-Determination league. 1 Curdinal ltourne' letter warned people peo-ple of his archdiocese not to allow themselves to become Implicated "by active sympathy, or even actual co- operation, in societies and organtza- I tions which are In opposition to the ' laws of God and the Catholic church." i In the course of the letter, the cardl- nal referred to the "horror and outrage out-rage In Ireland." "DISGUST" EXPRESSED. "His eminence," the statement declared, de-clared, "may rest assured the onlyMm- I pression left upon the Irish 1 i t -, as' W cTT s-Th erTrW-cle rcTln h Is " arch r diocese, by such letters, Is one of dis-gust dis-gust at his narrow and unchristian attitude." Mr. O'Brien referred to Cardinal Bourne's attitude toward Sir Roger Casement, who was executed for high ! treason during the war. and charac- J terized it as "not only un-Calholic, but antlchristian." He said the cardi- ! nal had continuously refused to allow his name to be used in repudiation of j "British barbarities in Ireland." "NO DICTATION FROM ROME." "Cardinal Bourne may hope," the , statement continued, "that his parti- san political lecture will help the activities ac-tivities of his government at the vatl- I can which, during the past year, have been very vigorous, and which, it was hoped recently, would produce fruit I in papal commendation of the repub- lican movement in Ireland. If his eminence has any hopes in this dlrec- I tion. It would be well for him and I leading Knglish Catholics who are sharing his hopes to understand that not even the most devoted Catholic in Ireland, or among the Irish throuEh-( out the world, will accept political I guidance or .Isolation- from- Horned I |