THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 49, 8 December 1904, Page 15

THE AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY.

Mr. W. L. llowditch, M.A , lion, secretary of the Australian Catholic Truth Society, Melbourne, writes as under :—

The following resolutions were passed by the Executive Committee of the A. C.T S held at the Archbishop's Palace on Friday evening, November 18 :—: —

That his Grace the President request each of the Bishops to appoint a clerical and lay secretary to spread the work of the A C.T.S. in his diocese.

The general secretaries shall arrange for visits to Catholic centres in the archdiocese to advocate the cause of the A C.T S.. and shall prepare a list o5 ladies and gentlemen willing to lecture under the auspices of the A. C.T.S. at these centres during the winter months

A h binary sub-committee was appointed, consisting of the Rev. L. Martin, Messrs. YV. P. Lnneilian, P. J. Quirk, and R. Stewart, to make enquiries as to the number and condition of Catholic libraries, to devise means for furnisihing them irom time to time with lisls of Catholic books suitable for libraries or tor private persons, at the lowest possible quotations ; also to report on the best means of introducing standard Catholic books and newspapers into the public libraries of Victoria, and of preventing the purchase out of public money of works which oalumniate the Church.

That we offer to unite with the English and Irish C.T.S. and with the Paulist Fathers in America in urging on all Catholic publishers to iss.ue immediately cheap reprints of standard Catholic clasisies, and promise to aid in the distribution of them throughout Australia.