Renihan, J: Letters of Niall the Grand and Others, on Irish

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Renihan, J: Letters of Niall the Grand and Others, on Irish

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Excerpt from The Letters of Niall the Grand and Others, on Irish History, Bulls of Adrian, Etc;, Etc: Dedicated to the Fenians and the Friends of Ireland

If he applies the word on religious grounds, I say to him, though by no means willing to play the hypocrite, I believe myself at least as good a Catholic as he. I have nothing to say against the religious portion of Catholicity. It is the creed of every one belonging to me - the creed I was taught at the knees of a loving mother; but with that part of it that has become a political machine, to the injury of my country and its votaries, and would barter their liberty and their lives,i hold no sympathy. When a man combines in his person the character of a politician with that of an expounder and inculcator of Christian precepts and Chris tian virtues - that is, when he uses or rather prostitutes the in¿uence, attached to his' position as moral teacher, in gain ing his own selfish object or in gratifying his vanity, to the detriment of those the faithful guardian of whose interests he pretends to be, Icannot conscientiously approve of his worldly inclination or confide in his interpretation of Chris tian or moral obligations.

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