JEWS DEFENDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 217, 12 September 1940, Page 6

JEWS DEFENDED.

OPINION OF JUDGE. LEAD GIVEN TO CATHOLICS. A strong attack on anti-Semitism wa* made to-day by Sir. Justice O'Regan in the course of an address on the study of history which he delivered at the Catholic Men's Luncheon Club. i

His Honor said he must refer to the anti-Semitiem which characterised modern dictatorships and had its sympathisers elsewhere. Catholic citizens did not require to be told that the Holy Family, the Twelve Apostles and the great majority of early Christian* belonged to the Hebrew race.

"The great St. Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, was a patriotic Hebrew," he went on, "and often preached in the synagogues. In the Catholic Church there is no room for racialism or the colour bar. The Gospel message ia meant for every creature, and ao one race is as good as another.

In this Attitude we cannot do better than adopt the lead given recently by our Holy Father the Pope. HU Hofinets appointed a commission of scientific men to inquire into the age of the earth. One of them.was a Hebrew. That was the Pope's reply to the anti-Semitism «' Hitler and Mussolini, and members of the Catholic community could not do better than follow it."