Slanderers in Broadcloth

New Zealand Tablet, 4 October 1906, Page 9

Slanderers in Broadcloth

You can satisfy the cravings of a hungry tiger or a famished shark. But three things you can never

sate: ambition, avarice, and hate. With them, ' l'appetit ', as the French say, ' vient en mangeant '— every mouthful serves only whet, the . appetite. - Witness, for instance, the devouring hate with which a few Australian Orange clerics have been for some years past gnawing at . the good name of devoted Catholic Sisterhoods whose shoes' they are not fit to shine. These half-dozen clergymen engaged ' in this Campaign of unmanly calumny against women are doing more injury to religion than twice their number of infidel lecturers, arid more harm to the peace and good order of society than ten times their number of criminals at large.