AUSTRALIAN MORALITY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5212, 5 December 1927, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN MORALITY.

NO PROGRESS BEING MADE. “ PARALYSIS OVER RELIGION.”. “Australia is not progressing morally. Indifference to religion, and what it means, can be observed. There is a kind of paralysis creeping over religion in the Commonwealth.” Archbishop Kelly made.' this statement following the blessing of the foundations that have been placed for the new , Christian Brothers’ school and Monj astery at Manly, Sydney. In stressing the need for more Roman Catholic schools, the Arch--1 bishop said that Australia would go • down • social ly and morally, and its prosperity v.'ould be; of little value, unless religion was strengthened by an accession of yountg girls and Loys trained in it s truths generation after generation.”

He declared that :Romnn CathoPcs did not condemn the State system of education —as far as it went. On the contrary, they agreed that it had a great missiorn so far 1 as intellectual and moral cu Iture were concerned.

Still, the (State expressly left out religion, or dogma, as,' the authorities tqrmed it.

The new sc hopl will be completed within nine [months. The contract price is £11,11'3. “A training place Tor the heroines of Christ,” was the description by the Archbishop at Pennant Hills, after he had ble,ssed and opened the new novitiate and c ‘hap el for the Good Samaritan Sister, s. The contract "pricie was ■£4O;0OO.