CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 299, 21 January 1911, Page 5

CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION

"NEWSPAPER IMPERTINENCE." CARDINAL MORAN IN FIGHTING MOOD. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Sydney, January 20. At the Catholic Conference Cardinal Moran declared that the principle of not allowing priests to teach religion in the State schools was a correct one, inasmuch as it showed the condemnation by the Catholic Church of the entire State system. She always had and always ■would condemn it. Bishop O'Connor and Father O'Reilly strongly resented the attitude of the secular Press to the Catholic education claims. Father O'Reilly declared that it was j an insult that exception should be taken, to the Cardinal, as the spokesman of the Catholic body, condemning the public school system. Catholics would continue to protest and to organise until those people who blindly opposed them ijp«re brought to a sense of their duty to the Catholic body. It was time to resent the impertinence of such newspapers. COMPENSATION CLAIMED. Received 20, 10.40 p.m. Sydney, January 20. The Catholic Education Conference has concluded. A resolution was passed that it is the duty of the State to see that children are surrounded by religious influences; that Catholics demand that their schools be recompensed, so far as they carry out the work of secular teaching in accordance with the State standard; that State bursaries be open to competition for the pupils of every school in the State. A Central Committee was formed to safeguard Catholics' rights in the matter of education.