And now all his labours had ended by his
being accused at Rome of lack of orthodoxy. He could no longer
restrain his indignation, and in a letter to one of his lady
penitents, he gave vent to the bitterness of his soul. When his
Rambler article had been complained of, he said, there had been
some talk of calling him to Rome. 'Call me to Rome,' he burst
out--'what does that mean? It means to sever an old man from his
home, to subject him to intercourse with persons whose
languages are strange to him-- to food and to fashions which are
almost starvation on the one hand, and involve restless days and
nights on the other--it means to oblige him to dance attendance
on Propaganda week after week and month after month--it means
his death. (It was the punishment on Dr. Baines, 1840-1, to keep
him at the door of Propaganda for a year.)
'This is the prospect which I cannot but feel probable, did I say
anything which one Bishop in England chose to speak against and
report. Others have been killed before me. Lucas went of his own
accord indeed--but when he got there, oh!' How much did he, as
loyal a son of the Church and the Holy See as ever was, what did
he suffer because Dr. Cullen was against him? He wandered (as Dr.
Cullen said in a letter he published in a sort of triumph), he
wandered from Church to Church without a friend, and hardly got
an audience from the Pope.
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