Always the Same by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

Always the Same

By Editor

The following from Massachusetts shows the unblushing boldness of the "mother church" in her efforts to carry out her iniquitous schemes in the United States.

Rev. Father Scully is pastor of the Catholic church at Cambridgeport, Mass. He has established a parochial school, and demands that all Catholics send their children to it. There are twelve or thirteen hundred children in attendance on the school. A number of parents, however, refuse to send their children to it, believing in the common school system. They allege that the quality of instruction in the parochial school is far below that given in the common schools, and object to the burden of expense which its maintenance imposes on them. Against these the full force of Father Scully's wrath is directed. He teaches his adherents to shun those parents and children, and treat them as Protestants, and absolutely refuses to administer to them the sacraments. They have, therefore, been driven to seek the consolations of their religion in other parishes and from other priests. To this Father Scully now announces that he will put a stop. Claiming that he and his assistant have absolute control of the spiritual welfare of all Catholics in his parish, and that he and Father Mundy alone, to use his own words, "can forgive their sins and send them to heaven," he will attempt, by the authority of the Archbishop, to force them to return to his Church and to support his school. At present he calls them "incipient apostates." Archbishop Williams said recently to a committee of complainants, "Father Scully knows his duty."