MARIST BROTHERS AND WAR
NO UNIFORMITY IN TREATMENT.
By Telegraph.—Frees. Association.
Chrisichurch, April ■ 14.
Before the Canterbury ulilirary Service Board to-day, Bishop , Brodie, Catholic Bishop of that diocese, appealed on buhalf of James Lee Tracy and James Edmund Butler, Jlarist Brothers. teaoliers. The Minister had not issued certificates in these casts, but the chairman of th'e board spid they would not depart from their precedent of adjourning the cases sine die. Captain fapratt said that since the last'case the position had been somewhat altered,. as messages from Euglaud ' said that. there exemptions to religious workers had been terminated owing to the, need for men. Captain' Hpratt pointed out that all the arguments advanced for Marist Brothers applied ' also • to. teachers in State schools'. On the point of the vows which were made, Captain Spratt'asked'where the difference lay , between an , anti-militarist who vowed he' wqukj not go into camp and a Marist Brother who made a vow' that he would devote his life, to teaching, or between a Quaker who made some religious'vows and a Marist Brother.
The chairman (Mr.. H. W. Bishop, S.M.)said his view was that the antimilitarist's vow was an individual one, while the other was made publicly and with the discipline of the Church behind it. •■•■■■.■-. /Bishop, Brodie agreed that public vows! ma<le by any person should be equally binding, and entitle those making them to be placed on the same footing. ■ .■: ■'", ■ . ■ ■■■■/ ■ The chairman: Well, they wont be put on the same footing by this board, I can tell you. We would have every anti-militarist iii the country coming here ,and saying ho had made a vow. The chairman added that this matter had been considerably on his mind, and at a conference of chairmen of military boards to be held on. April 27, he intended bringing it up, and asking for a definite settlement of the policy to be adopted towards Marist Brothers. His own opinion was that these men should recoive exemption, but other, members did not think so, and they should have uniformity. Tho cases were adjourned till after thtj conference,- _^
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 4
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347MARIST BROTHERS AND WAR Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3054, 16 April 1917, Page 4
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