Word: mcglynn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paix or Unter den Linden would have connoted an English, French or German Pope. In fact, I never heard of any one taking the Doctor's phrase for an intimation that he desired to see an American Pope until I read it in Frank McGlynn's letter...
...months later, Dr. McGlynn willingly made the visit to Rome which previously had been demanded in vain. He had a friendly talk with Leo XIII, remarked that he could not stay long in Rome, to which the Pope calmly replied: "As you tell of your necessities, I of course cannot oppose your wishes...
...Rome, Cardinal Simeoni, head of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, with jurisdiction over the U. S. which was still a missionary land,† heard of Father McGlynn, condemned his views and summoned him to the Vatican to account for them. Rebel McGlynn ignored the summons (and three later ones), was accordingly ordered excommunicated in 1887. For five years the priest, a devout Catholic, was unable to say or attend mass, was faced with the prospect, unless he recanted, of ending his days without the ministrations of the Church. But a substantial body of Catholics, clergy as well as laity, remained...
...following year, the Holy Father sent a representative to the U. S. (Monsignor Francisco Satolli, later the first Apostolic Delegate to the U. S.) who was empowered, among other things, to look into the McGlynn case. Single-Taxer McGlynn gave Monsignor Satolli a statement of his views which so convincingly showed them to be fundamentally orthodox that, at once, the Pope's representative declared him free from censure. Though it has since been frequently intimated to the contrary, Single-Taxer McGlynn regained his priestly standing without being obliged to retract a single word of his utterances on economics...
...Edward McGlynn died in 1900, in Newburgh, N. Y. where he had served as pastor for five years. To his funeral went Archbishop Corrigan, Newburgh's Jewish rabbi and all its Protestant ministers...