Occasional Sermons, Addresses, And Essays

OCCASIONAL sermans, abbrrssrs, OCCASION4L SERbIONS, ADDRESSES, AND ESSAYS BY THE RIGI-IT BEV. GEORGE CONRQP, D.D. - I888 - PREFACE. A FEW of the Sermons, Addresses, and Essays of the late Bishop of Ardagh are. here given to the reader, in the hope that they may be found useful and instructive, as well as worthy of the Authors distinguished reputation. Some of them have had the advantage of the authors omn revision some of them were never intended for publication but all of them are fair specimens of the Authors opinions, style, and methods of thought. It is for the reader to judge whether the work now published deserves a place in 0at601ic literature. The Authors memory will be entirely vindicated, and the highest tribute paid to it, if this volume be inmental in making men of thought to recoil from the evils of our day-Pagan Philosophy, drear Materialism, Religious Indifference, and con- tempt or heedlessness of the Apostolic teachings. It is con- fidentlyhoped, in the words of the admirable preface to the Mystical Flora of St. Francis de Sales, with whose gentle spirit the late Bishop of Ardagh loved to act, that this book may bring pleasure to the lover of nature, as well as profit to the seeker after grace. CONTENTS. SERMONS. St. Kyran of Clonmacnois. The Pontifical Jubilee of Pius IX. The Ecclesiastical Seminary St. Patrick and his Work Irelands Offering to the Sacred Heart The House of the Good Shepherd . The Cry from the Wilderness . For an Orphanage For an Orphanage For the Widows Home . Fear of Divine Justice . On Rosary Sunday First Sunday of Lent . Stations of the Cross . Pastoral Letter on the Jubilee of 1875 LECTURES. The Mixed System of Education in Ireland . The Churchand Civilisation Reply to an Address.-Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, Niagara Falls . Reply to the Address of the Laity of Buffalo Reply to the Address of the University of Lava1 . Reply to Address of Welcome, Brooklyn, U.8. Address delivered in Omaha Reply delivered at Quebec CONTENTS. ESSAYS. Introduction to The Ecclesiastical Record A Recent Protestant View of the Church of the Middle Ages . The Irish Church Establishment . Cardinal Consalvi and Napoleon Bonaparte . Memoirs of my Ministry by Cardinal Consalvi The History of a Conversion . Richard Fitz-Ralph, Archbishop of Armagh Religious Toleration as applied to Catholics . The Freemasons painted by themselves . The Congress of Students at Liege Positivism . The Irish Cardinal The Last Thirty Years in the English Church The First Bishop of Newfoundland The Weakness of English Protestantism . Dangerous Reading. . Dr. Whately and the National System of Education in Ireland . Ritualism A Quarrel among Freemasons . The Right to Educate To whom does it belong . Some events of the Centenary of SS. Peter and Paul . The Revival of Atheism . Church Questions in the Third Century . The Bishop of Orleans on the next General Council . A Visit to Aran-More of St. Enda . PAGE . 177 . 180 . 185 . 193 . 209 . 219 . 238 . 254 . 261 . 277 . 284 . 300 . 304 . 315 . 328 . 338 . 346 . 357 . 371 . 375 . 401 . 415 . 424 . 437 . 447 GEORGE MICHAEL CONROY was born, January l, 1833, in the town of Dundalk, of parents whose piety and respectability are associated with the highest dignities of the Church of Armagh. At an early age he was marked out for the ecclesiastical state. He received his first instruction at Dromislrin, in the county Louth, and from thisvillage he was moved in a short time to his native town, where he studied at an intermediate school kept by a classical teacher, whose name was Dunphy. Here he remained till the year 1848, when he entered the Diocesan School of Armagh. In Armagh he spent some two years. A concursus was held in the year 1350, and at this concursus young George Conroy carried off first prize from all corners...