CATHOLIC EDUCATION :--IRELAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 36, 3 January 1874, Page 12

CATHOLIC EDUCATION :- -IRELAND.

Tiik resolutions adopted by tho venerable and illustrious Hierarchy of Ireland at the meeting of the Presbytery, Marlborough St., Dublin, on the 15th and lGth October, wore made public the following day. Every journal in the kingdom, Catholic, Liberal and Conservative, has commented upon them. The Catholics oxult with joy. " The Irish Bishops have acted like faithful pastors and sound statesmen. The complete success of Catholic education is assured, if the programme of their Resolutions is carried out with vigor and perseverance." This is what the ' Tablet ' says, when announcing this new plan of operations laid drwn by the Bishops. 1. 'I hat, with a view to the improvement of Catholic education, and in order to make our Dniversity a great centre of Catholic education throughout Ireland, we will take immediate steps to affiliate to it the several colleges, seminaries, and higher schools of our respective Dioceses ; that we approve and adopt the scheme proposed to our meeting relative to examinations for matriculation and degrees in arta, philosophy, and theology ; and that we sanction the arrangements for tho creation of Bourses and exhibitions, and authorize the University Council to complete and carry out this scheme in all its details, 2. That we pledge ourselves to have the prescribed collection for tho Catholic University made every year on the third Sunday of November, in every parish of our respective Dioceses, giving it precedence of all local claims. 3. That, whilst earnestly exhorting our flocks to support the Cutholii University by their generous contributions, and to sustain by their influence our Catholic educational institutions, we renew our most -olemn admonitions to Catholic parents to keep their children far | awtu from all condemned colleges and schools. 4. lhat, whilst wo syinpath ze with our people in every legitimate effort to ameliorate tho condition and to promote the temporal welfare of our common country, we, as Bishop?, Call upon them to use all conetitniio'iul means to uphold the cause of Catholic education, and we pledge ourselves to support, and exhoit our people to support, as candidates for Parliament ny ] 10n01Si on ly those who will, iv Parliament imd out of Parliament, atrorously tu^tain oar educational rights, which me inseparably bound up with the best interests of religion. 5. Ihut the administration, firmuoiul and disciplinary, of St. Pit-ick's House of residence, Stephen's gieen, be confided to the Jesuit (3. Thnt <he erection of a new school of Medicine and University Hall on the Universiiv tite in St Sti-phen's-green, shall be commenced \ thout dehiv, the plans to be previously approved by the University (\j\moil ; t'l'd that a Committee be foiiued by tho Kector to aid iv col- ], f imp fund* for that purpose. 7 Tlmt the Rector bo authori-cl to eng-ige the services of eomtjpt 'cntlemen as lecturers on the following subjects for the present IJ , , r oV'ht lectures to be delneml on each subject, viz , English lan"VC" VC „?,'■ lMvli-h litcratoio and poetry, fine arts, geology, Irish antiquties, the Cluie-tt m Rel.gion", Modern Irish History. S Ih'it we will use our bo&t effoi ts to establish and maintain cm«-ic'ul echools in the in-iiu-ip.il towns of our diocoso. 9 That we earnest lv call upon our ch.^y throughout Ireland to - .it all tin ir vigilance and zeal in repressing drunkenness, which is one 07-1 i ■ ore it evil* of the- day, demoral.zing and impoveiishing the people au<i 'cCalii'jirg m thousands the souls whkh Christ died to save.

Amongst the means which may be usefully employed we recommend the " Association of Prayer," and the establishment in every parish of Temperance Societies, based upon the principles of the Catholic Religion. 10. That we see with deep sorrow the continued sufferings ot Our Most Holy Father, Pope Pius IX., and the persecution to which Religion is subjected in Rome, the centre and capital of the Christian world ; that we also deplore the evils by which in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy the Bishops of the Church, their clergy, and Religious Orders are afflicted ; and, therefore, exhort our flocks to put on the spiritual armour of faith, and to approach the throne of God in fervent prayer, that iv His mercy He may look down upon His children, and restore peace to the head ot His Holy Church and to its members. Signed on behalf of the meeting. + Paul Cabd. Cullkn.