After mass at Castletown, Bear Haven, Father Brennan ordered his flock to resist conscription, take the sacrament, and to be ready to resist to the death; such death insuring the full benediction of God and his Church.

If the police resort to force, let the people kill the police as they would kill any one who threatened their lives.

If soldiers came in support of the draft, let them be treated like the police.

Policemen and soldiers dying in their attempt to carry out the draft law, would die the enemies of God, while the people who resisted them would die in peace with God and under the benediction of his Church.
Father Lynch said in church at Ryehill: "Resist the draft by every means in your power.

Any minion of the English Government who fires upon you, above all if he is a Catholic, commits a mortal sin and God will punish him." In the chapel at Kilgarvan Father Murphy said: "Every Irishman who helps to apply the draft in Ireland is not only a traitor to his country, but commits a mortal sin against God's law." At mass in Scariff the Rev.James MacInerney said: "No Irish Catholic, whatever his station be, can help the draft in this country without denying his faith." April 28th.