Their Real Object

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1906, Page 2

Their Real Object

The object of the French Freemason-Radical 'Bloc' Js once more set forth with the customary brutal directness—this time by an anti-clerical journalist at Lille. ' In a few weeks,' said this ' candid friend,' ' the separation of Church and State will be an accomplished legislative fact. That legislative fact constitutes the first stage— and a very modest stage it is— towards that final and complete opposition to all Churches and dogmas of religiion.' In another quarter of the country—Grenoble, to wit— M. Combes has been singing a paean of rejoicing over the plunder and banishment of so many religious of both sexes whose sole crime was the free and devoted services which they rendered to the'cause of charity and education. And yet ( The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing ' despite ministerial majorities, whether in or out of France.