Thomas Connellan

Name: Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren, the Roman Catholics of the diocese of Elphin
Author: Thomas Connellan

Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

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“Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren, the Roman Catholics of the diocese of Elphin”, is a work by Thomas Connellan. It explores elements such as Roman Catholic, the Church of Rome and Patrick.

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ When I was a Roman Catholic priest, one of my chief duties was to hear confessions. It is not a pleasant duty, I can assure you, but it was always a pleasure to me to work for the good-natured Irish peasantry. Well, the chief argument in support of Confession is taken from the 20th chapter of St. John’s Gospel and the 23rd verse—“Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.” ”

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ Public confession always existed. St. James inculcates it (chap. v. 16) , where he says, “Confess therefore your sins one to another,” showing that the priest is just as much bound to confess his sins to you as you are to the priest.
3. All Roman Catholics try, where they can, to go to Mass every Sunday and holiday, and they believe that Jesus Christ is really and substantially present in the Host. They believe they receive Him in the Holy Communion also: and many of you are yet living, I have no doubt, to whom I carried the Holy Communion when you were sick. ”

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ Patrick planted the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland in the fifth century, is it not very curious that in the Bull given by Adrian IV. to Henry the Second, in which he permits Henry to conquer Ireland, the Pope expressly states he does it “in order to widen the bounds of the Church.” The Pope handed over Ireland to Henry the Second on condition “that he would take care that a penny should be annually paid from every house in Ireland to St. Peter,” and his Holiness expressly states that his object is “to widen the bounds of the Church.” ”

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ Augustine distinctly states that Christ is the rock—“Because I am Petra, a rock, thou art Petrus, Peter; for Petra, the rock, is not from Petrus, Peter; but Petrus, Peter, is from Petra the rock. And upon this rock I will build my Church; not upon Peter, whom thou art, but upon the rock whom thou hast confessed” (tom, v., 1097) . St. Jerome holds the same opinion. But the Church of Rome says Christ gave Peter the keys (Matt. xvi. 19) . No doubt ”

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ Patrick is there a single word about devotion to the Blessed Virgin, the Sacrifice of the Mass, Purgatory, Invocation of Saints, or the like. St. Patrick always prays to God alone, and Joceline, an early Roman Catholic historian, says of him—“He used to read the Bible to the people, and explain it to them for days and nights together.”
Lastly, you have always believed, and so did I for nearly thirty years, that St. Patrick planted the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland in the fifth century. We know that every part of the Island became Christian, and that Ireland was p. ”

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ Thence it follows that not alone did Jesus give to the eleven Apostles the power of forgiving sins, but He gave it to “those who were with them”—to the whole company of the “Disciples,” and among that company there were certainly some women. Therefore Christ gave power to women to remit sins in the Confessional. It follows as a necessary consequence; and I hope you will ask one of your priests to solve the difficulty for you. My friends, you will find nowhere in the New Testament a record of any of the Apostles having remitted sins in the Confessional. ”

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Thomas Connellan, Rev. T. Connellan, to his dearly beloved brethren…

“ I shall tell you the causes of these scruples and troubles, not in the order in which they arose, for that would be impossible in a short sketch like the present, and if you cannot master the difficulties yourselves, you can ask your parish priest to explain them for you.
1. We have all a great love for St. Patrick, and I used to read everything I could lay my hands on concerning him when I was a Roman Catholic priest. Now, St. Patrick left some writings in manuscript, and one of these is called “St. ”

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