BRIGIDINE CONVENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 10 December 1912, Page 5

BRIGIDINE CONVENT

OPENED AT PAHTATUA.

THE BIBLE-IN-SCH'OOLS QUESTION.

(By iieituravh — trtsa Association.)

PAHIATUA, Last Night. The new Pahiatua convent was opened yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Dean O'Shea, Vicar General and Administrator of the Archdiocese of Wellington. There was a large gathering of the public, and many visiting priests. The,building is for the use of the Brioridine Sisters, a teaching order. The collection amounted to £IOO. The' building cost £I4OO. Father T. McKenna. the parish priest, was highly complimented on the result of his' efforts. Referring to religious education, Dean O'Shea declared thattlu- foundation of all true moral trainh;,; was religious education. He dwhred! that so long as the present ..-y? :,om was recognised Roman Catholics were prepared to build their own. schools, and make any sacrifices for their faith, a faith which they had received as a priceless heritage from their forefathers. The speaker alluded to Bible-in-Sehool's League, which he .said was a very powerful and active body, whose to introduce a Bible text-book into tHe State, schools. Tt would only be another form' - of sectarianism at the piiblic expense, towards which Catholios would have to pay, and it would.give a form of religion which would be obnoxious to them.