FRANCE & THE CHURCH OF ROME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1917, 27 November 1913, Page 7

FRANCE & THE CHURCH OF ROME.

RELIGION IN SCHOOLS. \ BISHOP GRIMES ON FRENCH FREEMASONRY; By Telceraph—Press AfiEoolation— Copyright Fremantle, November 2G. Bishop Grimes, of Christchurch, who arrived hero by the Orsovo, said, in an interview, that though bo had suffered from ill-health on tho voyage out through somo form of food poisoning, generally ho had been in tho best of spirits. Tho object of bis trip bad teen to attend tho Roman Catholic Congress at Malta. Theireo ho went to Rome, whoro ho had throe audiences with tbo Pope, who expressed pleasure at tbo union existing between the priests and the people of Australia. His Holiness was pleased to note that hero tho freedom of tbo Church was not ii/erfered with in any way. 'He meant that the Church was r.ot interfered with in tho education of the children. Tho Bishop contrasted this with the position in France, where not only will the country not help the Church in educational -matters, "but the Ministry appears to bo entirely against religious instruction in State schools. The French Ministry is doing its best to efface the name ot God from tho school books. ' "Tbo French Ministry," ho added, is merely a tool in the hands of the I' rench Freemasons. Freemasonry such as exists in France is not dreamed ot in Australia. It was stated some time ago that English Masons had repudiated tho French Freemasons on account or the latter's atheistic teachings and declarations."