ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Justice.” good telling you again that anonymous letters only waste your time and ours ? Be economical.
“ J UDGE Not a hope yet. Australia is a free country. It we imitated the Catholic Press and the Tribune and gave our readers a column of Sporting Notes there would be a job here for Mr. Gourley the undertaker. The spirit is willing but the wowser is strong, E. O H.—Here is how to look at it. A council composed of the Apostolic Delegate and the Archbishops of Australasia is the highest authority in Catholic matters. If that council deems it right to publish a direction good Catholics will receive it with the respect and submission to superior wisdom due to it. There are cases in which such a direction may bind under sin • there are also cases in which it does not. Even in the latter it would be disloyal and unsound for any Catholic to set his judgment against such a high authority. Therefore^no •doubt at all about it—the ruling for Catholics is this: “We deem it our duty to co-operate with every wisely-directed effort to stem the evil of drink in Australia and to promote temperance among the people. We have no sympathy with those who oppose well-considered legislation. . But, needless to say, we have just a little sympathy with those—and they • are very active at present —• who do not - distinguish between the use and the abuse of alcoholic drink; who seem to regard drink, as something essentially evil, who T . , convey to the world by their reckless statements that Australia and New Zealand are drink-sodden lands, and that their people especially the soldiers who have risked their lives—are dishonored and degraded by intemperance
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New Zealand Tablet, 6 March 1919, Page 35
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287ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS New Zealand Tablet, 6 March 1919, Page 35
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