CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 7

CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION.

ORGANISATION URGED: By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. Sydney, January 20. ' At.tho Roman Catholic Conference, Cardinal Moran declared that the principlo. of not allowing priests to.teach religion in the State schools was-a correct one, inasmuch as it showed condemnation by tho Catholic Church of tho entiro. State system. She always had ami- 'ahVays would condemn it. ' - Bishop O'Connor, 1 'of Armidale, and Father O'Reilly, strongly resented the attitude- of tho secular press to the Catholic education claims. ' Father O'Reilly declared it was an insult thatexception should bo taken to tho Cardinal, as the'spokesman of the Catholic body, condemning tho public'school system. Catholics would continue to protest and organise until those people who blindly, opposed them; were brought to a . of. their, duty to tho Catholic b'ody. ii was time to resent-impert-in-ehco'siich. as that of tho newspapers. CONCLUDING RESOLUTIONS. Sydney, January 20. • The Catholic education conference has concluded. It was resolved that it was the duty of the State to see that children were surrounded by religious influences; that Catholics should demand that their schools lie recompensed so far as they carry out tho work of secular teaching in accordance with tho Stato standard; and that State bursaries bo open to competition by pupils from every school in tho State. A central committee, was formed to safeguard the rights-of Catholics in.tho matter of education. 1 v ,