A CANDID CARDINAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9712, 7 February 1910, Page 5

A CANDID CARDINAL.

A MINISTER SEVERELY CRITICISED. SCRIPTURE LESSONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. A STEREOTYPED SYSTEM. OF INFIDELITY AND AGNOSTICISM. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received February 7, 12.50 a.m. SYDNEY, February 6. Cardinal Moran, distributing prizes at the Catholic College, made an attack on the Minister for Education. He said that scripture lessons in the public school were not only irreligious but defective of literary merit. The Minister of Education had said that the lessons were the joint production of the Anglican and Catholic prelates; Archbishop Whateley and Bishop Murray. The statement was false, and sach a bare-faced one that the Minister either made it knowing it to be false, and if so was unfit for the place he held, or b« made the statement through inconceivable ignorance, in which case, educationally, he was not qualified to be Minister for Education. The Cardinal declared that non-sectarian education, as it was called, was nothing more than a nondescript system of irre ■ ligious belief, which might be more or less conformable with Protestant principles and consistent with Protestant tenets, but as viewed by Catholics it was a stereotyped system of infidelity and agnoticism.