The Catholic Newspaper

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 28 February 1907, Page 30

The Catholic Newspaper

In his Lenten Pastoral Letter, his Lordship-, the Bishop 'of Uoulburn (Dr. Gallagher), pays a tribute to the work of t/he Catholic He says :—: — ' The Catholic press and' the Catholic newspapers may also be regarded by a, pastor as- a helpful aid in the ■catholic teaching of his people. Although widely divergent in the view they may take as ■to the best methods of promoting Ualholic and religious interests, although perhaps profoundly at variance ironitime to time with one's own personal way af thinking, they are all sincerely Catholic, loyal to Uavholic principles, anxious to deiend and to illustrate, by met/hods which then and there seem best, our holy Catholic faith, to uphold the cause of Catholic education, to promote through religion all the best interests of tihe country. When the heart -is sound, „ and intention good, and purpose earnest and sincere, great freedom — ample room for discussion inside the domain ' of faith and 'morals— should be allowed. The old Catholic axiom, 'In necessariis unitas, in dubiis Mbertas, in omnibus caritas,' as it has been, so may it long continue to be, the golden rule for . both conductors and readers of the Catholic press in Australia. But in abundance and quality as well as in originality and variety of matter ; in literary style ; in respect for persons, no matter how severely" opinions' may be dealt with, our Catholic newspapers (nob merely of our own JSt/ate^ but of t-ne whole Commonwealth) compare favorably with similar papers in , any part of the JWn^lish^speiaki'ng, world, and can be of great service to the clergy in advocating Catholic principles, in defending the ri'giits of Catholics, _i-n diffusing sound Catholic literature, and, indirectly at least, seconding thfcir efforts in the most difficult of all thei£ works— that of teaching Christian doctrine to their children. No Catholic family, even in the remotest corner of the_bush, should be without some one or other of our wellwritten and well-conducted Catholic papers. Speaking for ourselves a.s we journey on our, tours of - visitation through the diocese, we feel that something is wanting, that there is a' loneliness and- void, that we artf not) altogether at ho,me, no matter how kind and Catholic in every other respect the home may be, if we cannot have a read of the Catholic paper'of a Saturday afternoon when the labors _of the day are done. The Catholic press has an apostolate especially in Australia. Let us help it— 'by every means in our power, by encouragement, by patropaige, by contributing original matter— to do well the duties of that Apofstolfa/te— -to correct error, to spread truth,, to illustrate the beneficent influence of learning, for lessening the ills that life is heir to, for the elevation of the masses, for the safeguarding of well-balanced freedom-, for thd instruction, enlightenment, and salvation of mankind.'

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