Fighting Ed McGlynn
Andreassi, Anthony D.
FIGHTING ED McGLYNN Anthony D. Andreassi RCHBISHOP EXCOMMUNICATES cy retarded...
...He was an active member property...
...FIGHTING ED McGLYNN Anthony D. Andreassi RCHBISHOP EXCOMMUNICATES cy retarded emotional growth, making municated by Pope Leo XIII...
...the 1880s...
...They were uncomfortable with Vatican, McGlynn was restored to the partisan politics...
...When it comes cal Reconstruction in the postbellum pended McGlynn from his priestly func- to instructing the faithful about whom South, Fenianism in Victorian Ireland, tions for the rest of the year...
...His Such unconventional opinions attract- reluctant Corrigan appointed McGlynn funeral drew tens of thousands of New ed the suspicion of church officials, but pastor of Saint Mary's Church in NewYorkers into the streets of Manhattan McGlynn's real troubles followed his sup- burgh (a small city on the Hudson River, to pay their last respects to a man who port for Henry George, the radical social sixty miles from Manhattan) where he they believed was fighting the estab- theorist and hero of the workingman in remained active in social-justice issues lishment to give them a better life...
...Corrigan then sus- were right on one point...
...Two years later he was appointed later, when George ran unsuccessfully thousands of loyal followers attended chaplain of the Civil War military hospi- for mayor of New York City as a third- his funeral, including eighteen Protestal in Central Park, where he ministered party candidate, McGlynn delivered the tant ministers and a rabbi...
...On religious issues, members ar- demagogic) priest and the conservative gued for allowing priests to marry and archbishop escalated to the point that, Anthony D. Andreassi teaches history at Gonwondered aloud if mandatory "celiba- on July 3, 1887, McGlynn was excom- zaga College High School in Washington, D.C...
...the 1854 definition of the Immaculate church's good graces...
...In December 1893, after clarifying litical candidate, this priest was inti- ported the infallibility of the church as his position on private property for the mately involved in the hurly-burly of a whole...
...ceivable that an American Catholic priest felt it was an inappropriate time to de- Rome was embarrassed by the epior bishop would publicly endorse a po- clare the doctrine...
...No, this mians also supported using the vernac- the controversy...
...PRIEST FOR SUPPORTING SO- priests selfish and lonely...
...McGlynn responded through Although history has been kinder to of the Accademia, an informal study a newspaper interview in which he de- McGlynn than to the church officials group of liberal Catholic priests...
...George advocated a single tax until his death...
...raised in Manhattan and ordained in reformers met in 1882 and four years When McGlynn died three years later, 1860...
...A hundredth anniversary of his death...
...The conflict to vote for, discretion is the better part and opposed the temporal power of the between the populist (some would say of valor...
...In the public school is a legitimate environment right as an American citizen to speak last two decades of the nineteenth cen- for the education of Catholic children...
...nominating speech, despite warnings not ident Grover Cleveland telegraphed his After the war, he became pastor of Saint to do so from his superior, Archbishop condolences...
...sued a pastoral letter reaffirming church where an estimated forty-five thousand Besides being a pastor, McGlynn was teaching on the inviolability of private mourners filed past his bier...
...Commonweal 3 1 September 22, 2000...
...The two preached at his funeral in 1897...
...On po- cried the church's insensitivity to the who condemned him, possibly the latter litical issues, the group supported Radi- plight of the poor...
...an intellectual...
...McGlynn never wavered Born in New York City of Irish immi- on rents as a panacea for the economic in his support of Henry George and even grant parents in 1837, McGlynn was inequalities of the Gilded Age...
...Former Presto both Catholics and non-Catholics...
...Instead, they sup- sode...
...ty...
...McGlynn respected the A isn't a recent headline from ular in the Mass and rejected state fund- church's authority to circumscribe his the Wanderer, nor does it refer to a Latin ing for Catholic schools, arguing that a priestly ministry, but believed it was his American priest from the 1970s...
...El pope...
...He also refused tury, a New York City priest became a They favored the use of general absolu- a summons by the pope to come to cause celebre in both secular and eccle- tion and found that the practice of pri- Rome, and issued a public statement desiastical circles for his outspoken sup- vate confession encouraged scrupulosi- nouncing the attempt of "Bishop, Proport for a radical candidate for mayor...
...body was brought by train from Newwhere ten thousand people attended Following the election, Corrigan is- burgh to his old parish of Saint Stephen's Mass each Sunday...
...ciliation in the morning newspaper...
...freely on political issues...
...The Accade- The press gave extensive coverage to cJALIsT CANDIDATE...
...Later that day, McGlynn's Stephen's Church on East 28th Street, Michael Corrigan...
...On the issue of papal infallibility, paganda, or Pope" to circumscribe his Not as today, when it is almost incon- they were inopportunists-that is, they right to free speech...
...Much to his chaThe priest was Father Edward Mc- Conception, since it relied on papal in- grin, Corrigan learned about this reconGlynn, and this year marks the one- fallibility...
Vol. 127 • September 2000 • No. 16
