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Catholic Priest(s) in the Confederate States of America during cινιℓ ωαr
« on: June 25, 2019, 11:05:35 AM »
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    • There was an interesting discussion on this topic here maybe a year ago? Would someone please refresh my memory? Thank you and God bless.
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    « Reply #1 on: June 25, 2019, 11:13:53 AM »
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    • Ah!  The book, "The cινιℓ ωαr Diary of Father James Sheeran is excellent!  It will answer your questions of just how the Catholic Priest were in their actions compared to those of the North!  It is by Patrick J. Hayes  Very thick book of 565 pages.

    My husband has read many cινιℓ ωαr books and has shared many with other men and they gab about the cινιℓ ωαr.  But of all the readings my husband has had, this book stands out the most!  He shares with me of the diary and it gives you a so much different view then what we get in history books from school and such.

    This Fr. Sheeran does not have much respect for the Yankees, how they desecrated catholic churches of the South.  And of course he shows how the protestant ministers had nothing to offer the injured/dying soldiers, only the Catholics.

    Have a Joy reading this book!
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    « Reply #2 on: June 25, 2019, 12:05:25 PM »
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    • Thanks for the memory refresh about this book.

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    « Reply #3 on: June 25, 2019, 02:07:24 PM »
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    • This priest was an Irish immigrant who initially settled in Michigan with his family, then moved to New Orleans for a late Redemptorist vocation, after his wife died.  He had a good background for understanding the culture and politics of combatants on both sides.

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    « Reply #4 on: June 26, 2019, 12:03:49 AM »
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    • It was in the fall of 1864 that Father O’Reilly first heard of Gen. William Tecuмseh Sherman’s plan to destroy the entire city of Atlanta by fire. Father O’Reilly was outraged and Patrick Lynch drove the priest to speak to Gen. Henry Slocuм, a subordinate of Gen. Sherman.
    “In this meeting, Father O’Reilly argued that the order to burn homes and churches was beyond the normal confines of warfare,” Mears said. “Father O’Reilly pleaded for a compromise that would spare Atlanta’s five churches.”
    At first Gen. Sherman rejected the priest’s proposal. But Father O’Reilly would not relent and reminded the general that many of his own troops were Catholics and would create a mutiny if Catholic churches were burned.
    As a result of Father O’Reilly’s heroics, five churches in Atlanta—St. Philip Episcopal Church, Central Presbyterian Church, Trinity Methodist Church and Second Baptist Church, as well as the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, were spared. In addition, Atlanta City Hall, the Fulton County Courthouse and a residential area between Mitchell and Peters streets were saved.

    https://georgiabulletin.org/news/2007/03/city-honors-civil-war-priest-saved-downtown-churches/
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    « Reply #5 on: June 26, 2019, 10:20:32 AM »
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    • Wm.Tecuмseh Sherman was a freemasonic madman, but his wife was Catholic.



    One of his son's became a Jesuit priest and later was said to have committed ѕυιcιdє.

    Such was the guilt of the father's injustices carried by his family.

    After the war, Sherman became a vagabond, constantly on the move, unable to get employment.

    And wouldn't you know it, the North's "slash & burn" strategy of the South was devised by the Jєωs via
    European (Marxist) socialists recruited by Lincoln.

    As the following historical lecture proves.




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    Re: Catholic Priest(s) in the Confederate States of America during cινιℓ ωαr
    « Reply #6 on: June 26, 2019, 11:04:25 AM »
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    • Thanks for sharing. 
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    « Reply #7 on: June 26, 2019, 11:19:06 AM »
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    • thank You for all your posts!  It is so good to read truth!
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    « Reply #8 on: June 26, 2019, 12:13:51 PM »
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    • Quote from: poche on June 26, 2019, 12:03:49 AM
    It was in the fall of 1864 that Father O’Reilly first heard of Gen. William Tecuмseh Sherman’s plan to destroy the entire city of Atlanta by fire. Father O’Reilly was outraged and Patrick Lynch drove the priest to speak to Gen. Henry Slocuм, a subordinate of Gen. Sherman.
    “In this meeting, Father O’Reilly argued that the order to burn homes and churches was beyond the normal confines of warfare,” Mears said. “Father O’Reilly pleaded for a compromise that would spare Atlanta’s five churches.”
    At first Gen. Sherman rejected the priest’s proposal. But Father O’Reilly would not relent and reminded the general that many of his own troops were Catholics and would create a mutiny if Catholic churches were burned.
    As a result of Father O’Reilly’s heroics, five churches in Atlanta—St. Philip Episcopal Church, Central Presbyterian Church, Trinity Methodist Church and Second Baptist Church, as well as the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, were spared. In addition, Atlanta City Hall, the Fulton County Courthouse and a residential area between Mitchell and Peters streets were saved.

    https://georgiabulletin.org/news/2007/03/city-honors-civil-war-priest-saved-downtown-churches/


    Wow... Fr. O'Reilly was an ecuмenical priest then.

    In deference to his Catholic wife, Gen. Sherman, should have burned St. Philip Episcopal, Central Presbyterian, Trinity Methodist and the Second Baptist Churches.

    It would have likely retarded the growth of Atlanta's protestant heresies during the time of reconstruction.

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    « Reply #9 on: June 26, 2019, 03:50:21 PM »
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    • Better that all the damnYankee Unitarians and co. would have been divinely thumped. :fryingpan:

    Lest I forget, let us call the conflict by its more appropriate monikers...

    The War of Southern Independence
    The War of Northern Aggression
    The War of Southern Annihilation 

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    « Reply #10 on: June 26, 2019, 07:54:50 PM »
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    • Incredulous:   Ho does one see/view "The cινιℓ ωαr Radicals of the North"?
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    « Reply #11 on: June 27, 2019, 12:55:33 AM »
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    • Quote from: Incredulous on June 26, 2019, 10:20:32 AM

    Wm.Tecuмseh Sherman was a freemasonic madman, but his wife was Catholic.



    One of his son's became a Jesuit priest and later was said to have committed ѕυιcιdє.

    Such was the guilt of the father's injustices carried by his family.

    After the war, Sherman became a vagabond, constantly on the move, unable to get employment.

    And wouldn't you know it, the North's "slash & burn" strategy of the South was devised by the Jєωs via
    European (Marxist) socialists recruited by Lincoln.

    As the following historical lecture proves.


    His son became a Jesuit.
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    « Reply #12 on: June 27, 2019, 12:57:16 AM »
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    • Quote from: Incredulous on June 26, 2019, 12:13:51 PM

    Wow... Fr. O'Reilly was an ecuмenical priest then.

    In deference to his Catholic wife, Gen. Sherman, should have burned St. Philip Episcopal, Central Presbyterian, Trinity Methodist and the Second Baptist Churches.

    It would have likely retarded the growth of Atlanta's protestant heresies during the time of reconstruction.
    No, he was prudent. doing that saved the only Catholic church for miles around from being burned.  
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    « Reply #13 on: June 27, 2019, 01:09:16 AM »
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    • Quote from: Incredulous on June 25, 2019, 02:07:24 PM

    This priest was an Irish immigrant who initially settled in Michigan with his family, then moved to New Orleans for a late Redemptorist vocation, after his wife died.  He had a good background for understanding the culture and politics of combatants on both sides.


    I read this diary. One thing that I think is interesting is that everyone who ran away during battle were in the state of mortal sin. All those who faced the battle bravely were in the state of sanctifying grace.  
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    « Reply #14 on: June 27, 2019, 06:16:56 AM »
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    • Quote from: songbird on June 26, 2019, 07:54:50 PM
    Incredulous:   Ho does one see/view "The cινιℓ ωαr Radicals of the North"?
      


    Songbird,  Is the video link not working?

    When I clicked on it, it came up right away?
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