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...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...
Longtime pastor of St. Stephen's Church, whose congregation of 25,000 was Manhattan's largest, Priest McGlynn first irritated his superiors by opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth...
...Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan of Manhattan this sounded like Socialism, antithetical to Catholicism. He ordered Dr. McGlynn to cease his talk, then suspended him, finally removed him from his parish. Dr. McGlynn. the Sogarth Aroon or "good priest" to his tremendous Irish Catholic following, continued to speak as he pleased, helped found and became first president of the Anti-Poverty Society...
...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...