The Church and Education

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 3, 6 August 1908, Page 10

The Church and Education

Some legends have the life-of microbes. And some microbes are so tenacious of life that it is said you must boil them for JSJJT 0 i? bef °re yy °U are <*uite sure tha * you have killed them < fatally dead.' Lord Rosebery did a bit of stewmg^ "' lege."d mm e S°™ remarks which he m^ a few weeks ago oT the occasion of his installation as Chancellor of the University 's^/Z' ♦ (Sa>S the L°ndOn ' Catholic W«ekly >) should help to correct the erroneous and widespread notions o '- his fellow-countrymen in regard to the attitude of the Catholic Church towards education.' Lord Rosebery said in part: Kornan Bishop the lord -paramount-of the little medieval town msmm lory for the first lectures and to -become some of the most cs- "

* teemed teachers of the University. And so they move on to a Cathedral where, amid thp smoke of incense and the blare cf trumpets, the Papal Bulls are promulgated and 'the University is launched^ . . The spirit which founded us is still her.c, the" love of learning, the pride of membership in the commonwealth of 'letters, the ambition to train youth, to train Scotsmen for their country, enlarged by the force of circumstances and 6f horizon .into training men for the Empire — the spirit is "the same andthe form is riot wholly lost. . . Our founder, Popd Nicholas V., who was also the real founder of the Vatican Library and - the^magnificent- patron of learning, while he was signing the bull our foundation was inditing _with the same pen energetic appeals to the Powers of Europe to stem that Turkish torrent of invasion which was about to swallow" up the gorgedus capital of Constantino and obliterate -the Christian Empire of the East. . .- .' , r