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PITTSBURGH CATHOLIC Founded in 18U by Right Rev. Michael O'Connor, First Bishop oj Pittsburgh Diocese .^ssjnofe.. No. 33 1Kb Year PITTSBURGH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1921. indicated by speakers of national is unconscious from pressure on reputation. brain, so better hurry and no fooling. A New Reformation (final Gibbons One of the most important prob- Tonight at 9 o'clock. lems that the convention is expected TWO PRIESTS SLAIN, Priest Killed by Protestant Parson to map out definite plans to meet is In Churchof England Lamled by Protestant that of unemployment. Already sev- BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Aug. 12.— era Idistrict councils have put into 'he Rev. James E. Coyle, pastor of effect practical measures to cope with St. Paul's Cathe«lral church, in this Seen in Near Future it Catholic Congress the situation in their respective com- ONE BY KIDNAPPER city, aged fifty-three, was shot ahd munities and it is expected that this killed last night by the Rev. Edwin program will be greatly extended. R. Stephenson, a Protestant clergy- «By N. C. W. C. News Service) (By N- c. w. C. New» Service Consideration of tre rural prob- man, who bears the title of "the marrying parson," and who has been LONDON, Aug. 16.—According to LONDON, Aug. 5.—The Catholic lem will center about'the report of "The Church Gazette," an organ of Rita Congress at Cambridge, which the Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara, of Eu- OTHER BY PARSON a familiar figure around Jefferson «j a f*®** success an(* remarkably gene, Ore., who for the past year County Court House for many years. extreme Low Church opinion, the so- 2 attended, administered to Prot- has been conducting a series of ex- Father Coyle is said to have recently called Catholic movement is making News Service) married Miss Ruth Stephenson, the ^ntism one of the greatest shocks periments on which it is expected to i By N. C. W. ( headway in Anglican Cathedrals. base a concrete national program. daughter of his slayer, to Pedro ¡¡It body religious opinion has SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15—No tower since his arrest and those con- "The Church Gazette" does not Headquarters of the convention Gussman, a Catholic. According to crime in recent years has so stirred tained in a letter received by Arch- the local accounts of the matter, the refer to these things with any feel- _ ^M^bee_ .. n commonly held by will be at the New Willard Hotel, the people of this region as the mur- bishop Edward J. Hanna within a slaying of Father Coyle came as the ings of pri«le; rather it laments these Protestants that their religion was where the first session will be calif der of the Rev. Patrick E. Heslin, few hours after Father Heslin's climax of several months' dissension fallings away from grace, and more yt «P on the Bible and on the Bible, to order on Tuesday, September 20. trange disappearance at 9 o'clock w ho was lured from his parish resi- between Rev. Mr. Stephenson and ••tha•n suggestJ| s that the Iprope I I r thinHg «fa But as the last fifty or so years The Rt. Rev. Joseph Schrembs, lience at Colma on the pretext of a the night of August 2, making a de- o o ta»ghown, Protestantism began the chairman of the Department of Lav mand for ransom, are the principal local Catholics, the ground for this 1t0 set the Church right in this re- sick call and whose bui let-ridden dissension being said to l>e the belief I , recourse to the judicial com- ¡ntematic destruction of the Bible| Organizations of the National Cath- body was fount! after nine days clues to the prisoner's alleged guilt. spect s U^diowinY iuv" g itself to be deluged by 0uc Welfare Council, will bejthe entertained bv the Protestant clergy- I mittee of the Privy Council, which is /v : buried at a desolate spot near Salada This, combine«! with the fact that a ~' "" speaker at the first meeting. Pon- man that Father Coyle and other a commissk>n of judges wno are sup- ¡4 Higher Criticism, and consequent- Beach, thirty miles south of this city. large quantity of newspaper clip Catholics were inducing Stephenson's I posed to treat the needs of the An- ly the Bible as the foundation of this tifical Mass will be celebrated on the There is the deepest speculation as pings pertaining to the priest's ab- morning of the fitst «lay. «laughter to enter the Catholic ^ican Church from the point ot ¿jirioog edifice has been undermine«!, to the motive that prompted the duction and notes philosophising on Church. , view as to what was done in the reign oi the structure practically de- A mass meeting at the Catholic crime. The gamut of the .theories the "Mystery of Death" were found University, under the auspices of the The shooting took place at the I of Edward VI.—a time when Englisft itroyed- runs from a money lust that prompt- is Hightower's room after his ar- District of Columbia District Coun- Catholic rectorv. According to Miss protestantism was beginning to teei ft has eome, then, as a sort of sur- ed the kidnapper or kidnappers to rest, clinches their suspicions, the au cil, will be one of the features of the Marcel I a Coyle, the priest's sister, 1 its ]egs, so to speak, and was a very prijt to fpotestants to find that the send Archbishop Hanna a demand of thorities say. of the convention. Father Coyle was sitting on the j unlovely thing indeed, Githolks and the Catholic Church are se<-ond day $6,500 for the return of the priest, Another fact upon which police pin porch, reading, when she hear«l some But, anyway, if these Low Church the only »«1 "Bible Christians" in I 1 their suspicions is that in the ransom I lamentations are any indication at ^^d, and that the Church alone I Ku ^ Q^^ to anti-Catholic hatred, which is one come upon the porch and begin hinted at in the letter which was sent letter the writer declared himself fa- all, it begins to look as if even the t the chvnpion and defender of the f to talk to her brother. Shortly after- to the Archbishop's office a few hours miliar with bombing devices and de wards she hear«l three pistol shots. Bishops and Deans were booming liter the kidnapping. scribed a trap so arrange«! as to ex- | infected with ritualism. This Prot- Nor, as the debates of the Con- Admits Klan Fights Running to the porch she found William Hightower, who directed terminate anvone who interfere« estant journal laments that: mn showed, do the Catholics base a »» the authorities to the body of the with his plans. In Hightower's In Winchester High Mass is now ¡¡gtrMeaee of the Bible on some 'A Clean Religion. (Continued on Page Four) missing priest, is held in custotly and room, according to detectives, an in- celebrated every Sunday with vest- mere obscurantism. Catholic biblical fernal machine was found, together ments Vestments are worn m Ro- jdwlars, as the eminent scholars at (By N. C. W. C. News Service.) is being subjected to a rigorous grill- ing by the police. with evi.lence of his familiarity with chester Cathedral. In Worcester^the fe Congress showed unmistakably, PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.—A«l- German Prince Archbishop Hanna has declared his firearms and explosives. Mass is sung every Sunday and at etter fear nor shirk the Higher mission that the Knights of the Ku- hope that some solution of the mys- least once daily. In Truro High Mass CntieiaiB—in its proper place and Klux-Klan, who held their first Priest Celebrates vestments are also m use. In Ches- tery will be found that will clear the 'Death Threat Sent To Archbishop afcr well defined and limited condi- meeting in this city in the lodge Hanna good name of San Francisco. ter several "news altars have been set tions, and subject always to the Liv- rooms of the Women's Maccabees Ordination Jubilee.! Hightower, under the crossfire «of SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 15.—The up. When the next Reformation jg Voice of the inspired interpreter. Benefit Association, 1517 Girard ave- comes, as undoubtedly it will come police questioning directed at him horrible death threat which was sent fir Arthur Shipley, the Protestant, nue, are "against a certain religious «By N. C. W. C. News Service» hffore many years are over, the when he returned with the authori- to Archbishop Hanna relating to Muter of Christ Church College and faith," was made here to the sixty- Cathedrals erf England will provide ties after leading the way to the rude Father Heslin was addressed to St. BERLIN, Aug. 16.—Prince Max Viee^Chancellor of the University of five members who assembled to gain ereat an opportunity for cleans- crypt where the murdered priest was Mary's Cathedral and was date«! Au- of Saxony, priest and scholar of the as Cuftridge, paid a happy compliment admittance into the secrets of the they did in the sixteenth cen- burie«l, stood staunchly by his asser- gust 3. It was mailed in San Fran- house of Wettin, who is celebrating ing as »the memory of the late Cardinal organization. tion of innocence, insisting that he cisco. The text follows: the twenty-fifth anniversary of his also, are Gibbons, when he welcomed Cardinals The statement, made by a man in August 3d. ordination, can look back over a long UTlie Anglican Bishops, Boerne and Gasquet and the Arch- was impelled to visit the spot gray business suit who outlineil Act with caution, for 1 have father record of fruitful activity as a pas- not apparently, free from the con; bishops and Bishops on behalf of through information which came to laminations of "the Scarlet Woman the work of the Ku-Klux-Klan in the him from a woman acquaintance of of Col ma in bootleg cellar, where a tor and educator.