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Source: New York Times Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “A Catholic Bishop’s Letter” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 8 September 1901 Volume number: 50 Issue number: 16121 Part/Section: 1 Pagination: 2 |
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| “A Catholic Bishop’s Letter.” New York Times 8 Sept. 1901 v50n16121: part 1, p. 2. |
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| McKinley assassination (religious response); Thomas Sebastian Byrne (public statements). |
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| Thomas Sebastian Byrne; William McKinley. |
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A Catholic Bishop’s Letter
Prayers of Tennessee Priests for the President as Directed.
Special to The New York Times.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 7.—A letter severely
denouncing Anarchy, condemning the attempted assassination of President McKinley,
and directing the priests of all churches in Tennessee to offer daily prayer
for the recovery of the President, was issued to-day by the Right Rev. Thomas
Sebastian Byrne, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Nashville.
Bishop Byrne says in the letter: “Our hearts are
borne with sorrow and our souls filled with indignation and shame to think that
in this great and free country a miscreant could be found so cowardly, base,
and craven as to attempt so foul a deed. No words of reprobation can be too
severe or unmeasured to brand such an infamy, and men who profess or proclaim
doctrines of which such unspeakable crimes are the issue should be made to understand
and to feel that they cannot teach them in this country, nor can they themselves
enjoy this country’s hospitality.”