Cultivating Catholic Support

New Zealand Tablet, 24 December 1908, Page 36

Cultivating Catholic Support

Right Rev. Dr. Archdall, speaking at the seventysecond annual meeting of the Tipperary Protestant Orphan Society in-Nenagh, said there was a danger that the Government would some day seek to deprive them of their small schools, and it was desirable "in the interests of religious education, that these schools should be retained. They had the assistance of the Catholic Episcopate in that matter^ for the Catholic Bishops were very anxious to retain their schools in the interests of denominational teaching, and in them the Church of Ireland had its most potent supporters. The Church ai Ireland had, therefore, on account of the enormous population of. Catholics, a very powerful safeguard in the matter, and they should try to cultivate Catholic support. They were quite prepared to give the Bishops of the Catholic -Church credit for kindlier feelings than existed in former .days, and certainly he felt that the Protestant population were more reasonable m their views of the Catholic position.