BISHOP MORAN and EDUCATION.
At the Roman Catholic Church, Dunedin, on the 16th, Bishop Moran, in the course of an address on the present educational system, said, “ Unfortunately some few who called themselves Catholics had proved to be enemies of the Church, and some of these had used their influence in Parliament against the Catholics. They maintained that they were entitled to the name of Catholic, and appealed to Irishmen because they were descendants of Irishmen. Some few Catholics and Irishmen might be deceived by them, but he said they ought not to be recognised as Catholics, because they were not, being in direct opposition to the doctrine and policy of the Catholic Church. They were a stumbling-block, an opprobrium, and a scandal to Catholics and Irishmen. People who sent their children to godless schools, although they lived within reasonable distance of the church schools, were living in wilful sin, and could not receive the sacrament of the church. They were living in a state of damning sin, and even though they might receive the sacrament, at death he would be compelled to refuse them Christian burial.”
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Patea Mail, 21 July 1882, Page 4
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