CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 311, 30 December 1908, Page 4

CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.

STATE SYSTEM "THE ROAD TO PERDITION."

Speaking at a gathering in Wellington to Archbishop lleilwood. after referring to the legislation of 187(1. ill consequence of which flic Catholics wele called upon to build their own schools in New Zealand, said that they had obtained the only real and solid system ot education in the Dominion. Alan's education ought to be in accordance with what he was made for. Every mau wan made for ;l supernatural end. if they did not educate, a boy or girl to that end it was a great mistake| That was what the -State education in New Zealand did not do. The system was lop-sided. It was simply leading on to the road to perdition. The system of Catholic education i,n New Zealand was such that a young mail could be educated up to the university on Catholic lines and in a Catholic atmosphere. The Bishop of the country, lie went 011 to say, would one day be a New Zealander. That change would come just as 'it had done in the United States. Already some fifty New Zealanders had come out of St. Patrick's College to join the ranks of the clergy in the Dominion| The Catholics were stronger Unlay than if their schools had been provided by the State. Their adversities had united them, and to-day they were a great forte in the country.

Continuing, Archbishop Redwood said Unit democracy was oil its trial, and he believed that in the future the Catholics would lie the light of this country. They would be able to grant tllio working man. his rights and give him justice. If people did not follow the Catholics they would fall into the gulf of socialism. Seven-eighths of what the socialists were asking for was right, but in the remaining eighth they wanted to destroy the religion and the home, and if there were n.O religion people would get what was known as an atheistic democracy. He could not imagine anything more horrible.