Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-17 | Page 1 | Irish Excited over Carnival Bourne's Note

IRISH EXCITED : OVER MIL ! BOOR NOTE 'Only Impression Left is One of Disgust, League Secretary Declares CHURCHMAN'S ATTITUDE CALLED UNCHRISTIAN jstatement Declares Political I Dictation From Rome Will Not Be Accepted LONDON, Feb 17 Great indignation indigna-tion was caused among Irish Catholli a in pngland by the pastoral letter written by Cardinal Bourne. archbishop arch-bishop of Westminster, which was read In English churches under his Jurisdiction last Sunday, says u. statement state-ment Issued here today by Art O'Brien, secretary of the Irish Self-Determina-tlonal league. j Cardinal Bourne's letter warned people of his archdiocese not to allow 'themselves to become Implicated "by active sympathy or even actual co-operation in societies and organisations I which are In opposition to the laws 01 !od and the Catholic church " In the course of the letter the archbishop referred to "the horror and outrage In Ireland." IMPRESSION tF DISGUST. I "His eminence," the statement de-! de-! olarod. "may rest assured tho only im-IpVeSSlOn im-IpVeSSlOn left upon tho Irish laity . well as the Irish clergy in his archdiocese, arch-diocese, by such letters, is one of dls-' dls-' Rust at his narrow and un-Christlun attitude." Mr ('Brlen referred to Cardinal I Bourne's attitude toward Sir Roger Casement who was executed for high treason during the w;tr. and characterized charac-terized it as "not only un-Catludle. but antl-Chrlstlan. He said the cardinal had continuously refuse, i to allow his nam to b used In repudiation of "British barbarities In Ireland" POPE ( T Did WE. I "Cardinal Bourn may hope,'' the statement continues, "that Ills partisan parti-san political lecture will help the ac-tlvitleg ac-tlvitleg of his government at the Vatican Vati-can which during the paot year have been very vigorous, and which, it was hoped recently, would produce fruit In papal condemnation of tho Republican Repub-lican movement in Ireland If bis mlnence has any hopes In this direction. direc-tion. It would be well for him and loading English Catholics who arc sharing his hopes to understand that not even the most devoled Catholic In Ireland or among tho Irish throughout through-out tho world will accept political guidance or dictation from Rome." rtn