BISHOP GRIMES

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14834, 27 November 1913, Page 7

BISHOP GRIMES

i:fT EBVIETrED AT FREMANTLE. CHtJBCH MATTERS IN FRANCE. my C*tt*-- prees Aesocittion-Copyrisfct) FREMANTLE, November 26. Bishop Grimes, of Chrietchurcb, arriredby.theOrsQva. In an interview, he said that though he had suffered iU-health on the voyage out through some form of food poisoning, generally ho had been in the best of spirits." The object of his trip was to attend the Roman Catholic Congress at Malta. ' Thence he went to Home, where he had three audiences -with the Pope, expressed pleasure at the union of priests and people in Australia, and said he was pleased to note that there the freedom of the Church was not interfered with in any way. "His Holiness meant," Bishop Grimes said, ''that the Church is not interfered with in the education of children, contrasting this with the different treatment in France, where not only will the country not help us in educational matters, but the Ministry appears to be entirely against religious instruction in the State schools, and is doing its best to efface the name of God from the school books. "The French Ministry," his Lordship added, "is merely a tool in the hands of the French Freemasons. Freemasonry such as exists in Franco is not dreamed of in Australia or New Zealand, and it was stated some time ago that Englieh Freemasons had repudiated, the French Freemasons on account of their atheistic teachings and declarations."