CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.
* Rishopßfedwbbd preached inoTning -and ; evening (at = Sf ' Mary's Church "Wanganui, yesterday. r In' the ■ morning he requestedal members of the congregation, over tlie age of f on ft en years 4 ' and qi both, sexes,, to r sign .petitions, whi(&' laid: at' the 1 ' Chjirch" doors, addressed 1 to both Houses' of Parliament, „ prayingTihat justice, be done to Catholics 1 in 'the matter of education. The ! request was acceded to^rid^a great number of signatures wife affixed. Intho evening* the Bishop attacked the irreligious side of the State school, system from which the name of God was poolipoohed,and banished from the doors. He laid it doWn as a duty incumbejTt; on all Catholic parents, to send their children to be educated where religious training made the, first consideration. In the morning his Lordship remarked that if Catholics hoped to ,ob-tain'-the justice to which they were Entitled at the hands' of the Legislature*,' they must continue to agitato. Similar t petitions are to be- signed 1 all over the colony^, j«nd the : pur port of the prayer is the same as that addre&ed td^ Parliament last election. ; .! iJ, '■'''
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 45, 21 January 1884, Page 3
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189CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 45, 21 January 1884, Page 3
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