CARDINAL McCABE'S MONUMENT, GLASNEVIN.-Cardinal-Archbishop McCabe, although an eminent and very learned churchman, was not by any mean politically popular with the vast majority of his Catholic fellow-countrymen, because, like his predecessor, Cardinal-Archbishop Cullen, he was not in sympathy with the national sentiment, and was given to the repression of active patriotism wherever his spiritual jurisdiction extended. The majority of the Irish people, while intensely Catholic, in the religious sense, resent political interference, of a hostile character, from their prelates and priests.


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