BISHOPS ATTACKED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1054, 19 August 1930, Page 9

BISHOPS ATTACKED

BIRTH CONTROL EDICT AROUSES CLERICS VIEW OF CATHOLICS LONDON, Sunday. There were many pulpit references today to the Lambeth Conference. Canon F. L. Donaldson, in Westminster Abbey, described the report of the conference as one of the highest delivered since the Reformation, lie said the bishops had issued a noble statement, which would enhance their moral, spiritual and social influence throughout the world, and constitute a splendid text-hook for Christian teachers who were looking to the Lambeth Conference for vision and counsel. The bishops had bravely faced the burning question of birth-control and had given it limited approval, at the same time condemning the horrible neglect of sex education for children in order to lift sex from tlie mire in which it had been laid for generations. On the other hand, the rector of one city church publicly delivered a message to his congregation expressing abhorrence and entire repudiation of what he called “the lamentable sanction of the deadly sin of contraception.” Father Woomlock, of the Farm Street Roman Catholic Church, vigorously protested against the birthcontrol resolution of the conference. He said Roman Catholics recognised only self-control and continence as lawful for the limitation of families.