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‘To Whom Should We Turn?’ Aspects of the Relationship Between the English and Welsh Hierarchy and Rome, 1880s–1920s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

Peter Doyle
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On 25 March 1882 Bishop Bernard O’Reilly, the third Bishop of Liverpool, wrote to the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda as follows:

It causes me great grief that Your Eminence seems to regard my enterprises with little favour, indeed I would say that I seem to be altogether deprived of Your Eminence’s protection, since every complaint and testimony (against me) from any source is immediately accepted. Almost overcome with sorrow and burdened with work beyond my strength, to whom can I speak heart to heart if not to Your Eminence? Whose help and protection may I claim for myself and my Diocese if not yours?

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British Catholic History , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 523 - 539
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 2009

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Notes

1 APF, vol. 24 (1881–2), n. 485.

2 Text in Decreta, pp. 345–65. See also Champ, Judith, William Bernard Ullathorne 1806–1889: A Different Kind of Monk (Leominster, 2006), pp. 436–43.Google Scholar

3 McCormack, Arthur, MHM, Cardinal Vaughan (London, 1966), p. 158.Google Scholar

4 Aubert, Roger, Le Pontificat de Pie IX, 1846–1878 (Paris, 1952), pp. 287–9Google Scholar; G. Sweeney, ‘The “Wound in the Right Foot”—Unhealed?’ in Adrian Hastings (ed.), Bishops and Writers (Wheathampstead, 1977), pp. 207–34. For priests reporting back to Propaganda, see e.g., APF, vol. 21 (1878–60), pp. 405, et seq.

5 Quoted in Derek Holmes, J., More Roman than Rome (London, 1978), p. 253.Google Scholar

6 Pii IX Pontificis Maximi Acta, 6 vols. (Graz, 1971), 1, p. 185; 2, p. 527; 3, pp. 431–2.

7 Champ, op. cit., p. 271; Schiefen, R. J., Nicholas Wiseman and the Transformation of English Catholicism (Shepherdstown, U.S.A., 1984), pp. 312–3Google Scholar; Butler, Cuthbert, OSB, The Life and Times of Bishop Ullathorne 1806–1889, 2 vols. (London, 1926), 1, pp. 246 Google Scholar, et seq. For Goss, see his letter-books in the Lancashire Record Office, RCLv 5/4/340, to Errington, 1 July 1862.

8 Alberigo, G., ‘The Local Church in the West (1500–1945)’ in The Heythrop Journal, vol. 28, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 125–43CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at p. 139.

9 AAL, Early Bishops collection, S1 III, A: Roman Documents, Formula Secunda.

10 Decreta, pp. 315–7.

11 Decreta, pp. 388–99, 24 May 1870.

12 Butler, op. cit., pp. 236–7.

13 Alberigo, op. cit., p. 136.

14 AAL, Liverpolitana I, 1897; Early Bishops collection, S1 VII, C: ad clerum of November 1907.

15 Peter, Doyle, ‘Bishop O’Reilly and the Franciscans’ in North West Catholic History, vol. 27 (2000), pp. 44–54.Google Scholar

16 The Tablet, 5 January 1901, pp. 5–6 for editorial comment, pp. 8–12 for text (part 1); 12 January 1901, pp. 50–2, for text (part 2). For contemporary reactions, see Maisie Ward, Insurrection versus Resurrection, 2 vols. (London, 1937), 2, pp. 134–43.

17 Bellenger, D. A. and Fletcher, S., Princes of the Church. A History of the English Cardinals (Stroud, 2001), pp. 143–6Google Scholar; S. Gilley in New DNB, vol. 37, pp. 925–9; Hastings, A., A History of English Christianity 1920–1985 (London, 1986), p. 146.Google Scholar

18 AAW, V. 1/14: 1896–1902: Letters of Cardinal Merry del Val; no. 25: 10 January 1900, on the Boer War; nos. 32 and 33, April 1901, on protocol.

19 Ibidem, no. 18: Merry del Val to Vaughan, 27 June 1899.

20 Ibidem, no. 29a, 30 June 1900; no. 30, 7 November 1900.

21 Maisie Ward, op cit., p. 143.

22 Text in The Tablet, 23 March 1901, p. 441.

23 Hastings, A History, p. 146.

24 AAL, Early Bishops, S1 VII, C: ad clerum of November 1907.

25 AAW, loc. cit., no. 34a, 30 December 1902. See also J. Derek Holmes, ‘Cardinal Merry del Val’ in Catholic History Review, 1974, pp. 55–64, esp. pp. 58, 60.

26 Decree Sapienti consilio, in AAS, vol. 1 (1909), pp. 12–13.

27 Apostolic Constitution Si qua est, in AAS, vol. 3 (1911), pp. 553–5.

28 Aspden, Kester, Fortress Church. The English Roman Catholic Bishops and Politics 1903–63 (Leominster, 2002), pp. 131–7Google Scholar; John Broadley, Martin, Louis Charles Casartelli, A Bishop in Peace and War (Manchester, 2006), pp. 191–8Google Scholar.

29 Philip Snowden (1864–1937) was a Labour MP 1906–18 and 1922–31, and Labour chancellor of the exchequer; later Viscount Snowden.

30 Quoted in Broadley, op. cit., p. 198.

31 On Gasquet, see Bellenger and Fletcher, op. cit., pp. 146–50; Leslie, Shane, Cardinal Gasquet: A Memoir (London, 1953)Google Scholar; Bellenger, D. A., ‘Cardinal Gasquet (1846–1929): an English Roman’, in Recusant History, 24 (1999), pp. 552–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

32 Johnstone, T. and Hagerty, J., The Cross on the Sword: Catholic Chaplains in the Forces (London, 1996), pp. 179–91Google Scholar. I am grateful to Dr. Hagerty for his help on this topic and for guiding me to relevant materials in AAW and DAA(G).

33 DAA(G), Gasquet to Bishop Amigo, 30 May 1916. Also, Leslie, op. cit., p. 246: Gasquet’s diary entry for 27 March 1916.

34 DAA(G), Gasquet to Amigo, 30 May and 31 December 1916; Leslie, op. cit., pp. 247–8, Gasquet diary entries for 28 April and 25 May, 1916.

35 Bellenger and Fletcher, op. cit., p. 150.

36 Hastings, op. cit., p. 148, on Gasquet’s attempt to have Mgr. Hinsley appointed an English bishop.

37 DAA(G), Gasquet to Amigo, 31 Dec. 1916.

38 Ibidem, Casartelli to Gasquet, 10 November 1917. The issue of how to respond to the government’s education proposals was also causing a rift between Bourne and the rest of the hierarchy.

39 Quoted in Aspden, op. cit., pp. 113–4.

40 DAA(G), Gasquet to Amigo, 15 March 1917.

41 AAL, Early Bishops, S1 VII, A/7, Lépicier to Whiteside, 8 Sept. 1911. See Leo Gooch, ‘An Archbishop for Darlington?’ in Northern Catholic History, no. 39 (1998), pp. 57–62, for Bourne’s astonishing suggestion at the same time that Darlington become a new province with Bishop Amigo as archbishop.

42 AAL, Keating, S2 I, A/1 ‘Consistorial’, for a full summary of the issues and negotiations.

43 Ibidem, Keating to De Lai, 2 April 1925.

44 Ibidem, Keating to the Pope, 5 April 1925.

45 AAS, vol. 12 (July 1920), pp. 265–7.

46 AAL, Keating, ‘Consistorial’, Redmond to Keating, 22 February 1925.

47 Ibidem, De Lai to Keating, 1 May 1925.

48 The phrase is Aveling’s: see Aveling, J. C. H., The Handle and the Axe (London, 1976), p. 355 Google Scholar. On the growth of devotion to the person of the popes, see Champ, Judith, The English Pilgrimage to Rome. A Dwelling for the Soul (Leominster, 2000), pp. 205–6.Google Scholar

49 APF, vol. 24 (1881–2), n. 574, 29 July 1882.