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! CARDINAL MORAN'S SPEECH, NUN-SECTARIAN EDUCATION. THE MINISTER IN REPLY. "AGREEABLE PERHAPS"—"BUT NOT HISTORY." United Press Association-Hy Electric Telegrap Copyright. Received February 7, 10.45 a.m. SYDNEY, February 7. The Hon J. A. Hogue, New South Wales Minister for Education, replying to Cardinal Moran's attack, states:—"The Cardinal has broken out aeain once more, breathing out denunciation of myself. After a fortnight or so of muffins and meditatiOD, he has come forth spiritually refreshed from his beaut fied retreat,and as a result of his communings with saints and the Prince of Peace he has invited me to tread on the tail of his episcopal coat. He keeps on damning our education system with all the renewed strength his cloister training can givehim. Our system of non-sec' tarian education was the stereotyped brand of infidelity and agnosticism.
They had heard nonsense of this kind before, continued Mr Hogue. It
had been sufficiently convincingly answered, and it was enough to say that the system of education was based on the deliberately expressed will of the people. The Cardinal had charged him with deliberate falsehood, the Minister went on. He had scarcely expected such language from one who had come clothed in the special sanctity of spiritual retreat, and he supposed, if he w«re to tell the Cardinal that such language was anti-Chris-tian, the latter would reply that that was a matter he (Mr Hogue) knew nothing about. He doubted whether people would accept Cardinal Moran as an authority on the qualifications of an Education Minister.
Proceeding, the Minister said: "The Cardinal will wait many weary days and take many more prayerful retreats, before he sees the Australian Legislature so fast in the grip of his or any other church as to hand over the work of education from the State to the religious denominations.
"The Cardinal found faults with the books used. It might be very agreeable all round if he would say how the history of Europe could be treated without reference to the Reformation and Martin Luther, the Huguenot massacres, sales of indulgences, the Armada, the Inquisition, and such things, but it would not be history. It might be agreeable if it were solemnly taught tnat the Reformation was unnecessary, that Luther was a crank —a sort of discontented strike agitator—that the sales of indulgences were myths, and that the Catholic priesthood of the sixteenth century was as pure and spotless as those who go into retreat in the twentieth; that the Armsda was a defensive act, that the Church had nothing to do with the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and that the Pope never ordered the striking of a medal to commemorate the butchery.
"Cardinal Moran declares that he has no fear of Catholic children being proselytised. Then what does he complain of? He is constantly attacking our schools. /If his accusations against the schools were true, would Catholic teachers remain in the service, or Catholic parents allow their children to attend? Assuredly not. They knew that the fulminations against the schools were not justified. Such attacks do no service to Christianity, and they do no harm to our schools." (In a cable published in yesterday's issue Cardinal Moran was reported to have said, inter alia:— "That nonsectarian education, as it was called, was nothing more than a nondescript system of irreligious be--1 lief, which might be more or less conformable to Protestant principles and consistent with Protestant tenets, but was viewed by Roman Catholics as a stereotyped system of infidelity and agnosticism.")
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9713, 8 February 1910, Page 5
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