Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — DR. M’GLYNN DEFIANT. [ARTICLE]

DR. M’GLYNN DEFIANT.

The Excommunicated Priest Still Insists that He Has Been Treated Wrongfully. [New York telegram.] Dr. McGlvnn’s first reply to the notice of his excommunication appears in this week’s Standard. There is a manifest effort throughout what he says to jiytify his course from the beginning. He gives tothe public, for the first time, his final summons to Rome, which was sent him in Mavp denounces the way in which he was addressed in it by the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda, but attributes that prelate’s feeling toward him to the “one-sided and numeious letters sent toRome against the Doctor by Archbishop Corrigan.” He also attempts to prove that which he and his friends have again and again asserted, that his case was prejudged at Home, and that he was cal.ed there tobe disciplined rather than for trial, as Hgr. Preston declared. Speaking of hi& having partaken of the holy communion last Sunday, Dr. McGlynn says he did so because he holds that he has not been legally excommunicated; that he would not enter any church and raisea disturbance in order to partake of the holy eucharist; that he would receive it lrom any friendly priest who believes as he does. A paper called Truth publishes the statement that Dr. McGlynn has consulted three eminent jurists with a view totesting h s case in the courts on a plea (hat the authorities have boycotted him and are guilty, moreover, of defamation of character and libel. If this position is legally tenable, Truth asserts, Archbishop Corrigan can bo indicted. The Formal Notification of Excommunication. The formal notification of his excommunication by name was received by Dr. McGlynn on Thursday. It was contained, in a registered letter, which had been detained at the Brooklyn postoffice sinceJuly 5. It reads as follows: Rev. Edward McGlynn, 1). D.: Reverend Doctob— ln accordance with the instructions of the Holy See, it is my painful, duty to notify you that the term of forty days from the date of delivery to vou of the monitorium of May 4 from the Cardinal Prefect of the Propaganda, within which you were required, UDder pain of excommunication, to be incurred ipso facto and nom—inatim, to appear at Rome before the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, has elapsed, and to delare that, as you have failed to appearbefore the Sacred College of the Propaganda within the time specified, you have incurred by your act of contumacy the said penalty of excommunication nominatim, I am, reverend sir ( sorrowfully yours. M. A. Cobrigan, [Seal..] i Archbishop o* N»— York,