Letter from Archbishop Michael J. Curley to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan
Letter from Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. referring to the opposition from the Pittsburgh Province (referred to as the ‘German Province’) to the Abbottstown house established by the Irish friars in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Province claimed an exclusive right to bar other Capuchin provinces from certain states in America. Archbishop Curley mentions this ‘situation’ had previously forced the Irish Capuchins out of the Diocese of Harrisburg in P
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- 14 Jan. 1930
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- Letter from Michael J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. referring to the opposition from the Pittsburgh Province (referred to as the ‘German Province’) to the Abbottstown house established by the Irish friars in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Province claimed an exclusive right to bar other Capuchin provinces from certain states in America. Archbishop Curley mentions this ‘situation’ had previously forced the Irish Capuchins out of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Missionary Correspondence > Correspondence of Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan
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- May(3)
- O'Callaghan(2)
- Clear(2)
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- Baltimore(5)
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- I now find that there is some difficulty about the matter owing to the fact that the Capuchin Fathers of the German Province, or should I say the Pittsburgh Province, seem to have…
- The whole thing seems rather paradoxical, if not amusing, to me. The Archbishop of Baltimore wants the members of the Irish Province of the Capuchin Order to have a residence for M…
- Now that you men have come here, not to conduct a parish, but to give missions in sections of the East to which you may be called, I want you to stay where you are, and I can see n…
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Archbishop's House 408 N. Charles St. Baltimore, Md. January 14, 1930 Rev. Brendan O'Callaghan, O.M. Cap., 702 Murdock Road, Anneslie, Baltimore, Md. Dear Father O'Callaghan, Permission was given the Capuchin Fathers of the Irish Province to establish a House of Residence within the limits of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. I now find that there is some difficulty about the matter owing to the fact that the Capuchin Fathers of the German Province, or should I say the Pittsburgh Province, seem to have some understanding with the Holy See or with their own Order whereby they may exclude members of their own Order, not of their Province, from certain States of the Union. This situation arose, I believe, with the stay of the members of the Irish Province within the limits of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. The whole thing seems rather paradoxical, if not amusing, to me. The Archbishop of Baltimore wants the members of the Irish Province of the Capuchin Order to have a residence for Missionary work in his Archdiocese. May the Provincial of the German-American Province in Pittsburgh tell the Archbishop of Baltimore or any other Ordinary that if he wants Capuchins in his Diocese he must have certain Capuchins and only certain Capuchins? The work that you Fathers are doing in no way interferes with the work of the Pittsburgh Fathers now stationed in Cumberland, and certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with the House of Studies of the same Province in Washington. What then is the purpose or how are we to explain any "dog-in-the-manger" policy by which your Brother Capuchins order you to clear out of this Archdiocese to which you have been admitted by the Archbishop? I think the whole situation is a little more than paradoxical, and I have no hesitation in saying that I consider it very stupid. Now that you men have come here, not to conduct a parish, but to give missions in sections of the East to which you may be called, I want you to stay where you are, and I can see no reason for any opposition to you on the part of members of your own Order. I hope I make myself clear. Yours sincerely,