BRIGIDINE CONVENT

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 139, 9 December 1912, Page 8

BRIGIDINE CONVENT

OPENED AT PAHIATUA. THE BIBLE-IN-SCHOOLS QUESTION. (BT TRLEQRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) PAHIATUA, This Day. The new Pahiatua convent was opened yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Dean O'Shea, Vicar General and Administrator of the Archdiocese of Wellington. There was a large gathering of the public and many visiting priests. The building is for the use of the Brigidine Sisters, a teaching order. The collection amounted to £100. The building cost £1400. Father T. M'Kenna, the parish priest, was highly complimented on the result of his efforts. Referring to religious education, Dean O'Shea declared that the foundation of all true moral training was religious education. He declared that so long as the present system was recognised Roman Catholics were prepared to build their own schools and maKe ray sacrifices for their faith, a faith which they had received as a priceless heritage from their forefathers. The speaker alluded to Bible-in-School's League, which he said was a very powerful and active body, whose aitn was ,to introduce a Bible textbook into the State .schools. It would only be another form of sectarianism^ the public expense, towards which j Catholics would have to pay, and it ! would give a form of religion which would' be obnoxious to them.