CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 623, 28 September 1909, Page 5

CATHOLIC CONGRESS.

- —.—o . ' ' EDUCATION. ■ IMPORTANT PROPOSALS. ' : , CHUnCH PRINCIPLES' AJCD STATE : ' SCUOOLS. (By - Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Eec. September 27, 10.30 p.m.) : Sydney, September 27. The Australasian Catholic Congress was opened here ' to-day. ' ' Cardinal . Moron announced that ho would outline a scUomo of primary education that would harmonise Calholio principles with tho Stato public school. Eystern. This would bo based on a- system inaugurated , a fow months ago in Holland, whero secular, education was ou very much tho samo lines as here. An address was read from Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore/dealing with the expansion of tho Church in America.' A lengthy historical paper reviewing the situation in Iroland for one. hundred years was received from Mr. J. E. Eedmond, M.P., Leader of tho Irish Nationalist party in the House of Commons. Tho Very liev. Tkt Cleary, of Dunedin, read a paper on 'Some.Groundwork Principles of Religious Education/" ' ■ " - " ■ ■'■■"■ ■ (The progress of Eoman Catholicism in America was referred to last month by Archbishop Farlev, of New York, in an interview, with a representativo. of tho "Freeman's Journal." 'He said: "As everybody knows, the Catholic .religion is going ahead in America. There-are-in tho States at least sixteen or seventeen million Catholics, while in the Philippines.thero are eight' millions. As fast hs wo can build churched they are filled. : I havo 290'inNcw Tork diocese/'J '