RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 10

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

THE CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT

The similax-ity in the outlook of the Catholic communities of Australia; and New .Zealand regarding the State's- attitude to religious; education was emphasised by his Grace Archbishop Sheehau, Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney, who "arrived by the Wangauella last evening. Archbishop Sheehaii is making his fourth trip to. New Zealand, and has come to Wellington, to attend the Month's' Mind on. Wednesday for the late Archbishop 1W« wood.

The Catholics of Australia considered they, were suffering-.'under, a'grievance, and were not getting a fair deal;because-they were paying taxes lor the upkeep oE schools to which, in conscience bound, they; could not send their children, he said.- He pointed out that the. State's attitude was of interest to other sections of the community as well, because the injustice inflicted on the Catholic schools'embodied a principle under which- other sections b£ the community' might fall at some future date. :..'.■■'.-.-:: -■:..■■;■■■•

Born at Waterford, Ireland, in 1870, Arehbishop.vSheehan was educated at tlio Universities of; Oxford, Griefswald, and I Bonn, Germany, and holds the degrees oE Doctor of Divinity, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy. Ordained priest in 1895 he was made Professor of Classics at Maynooth two years later. He was professor of Greek exclusively from 190S ta 1922. From 1919 until- bis appointment to Sydney in 1922,' he was. vice-nresident o.E St. r Patrick's College, Maynootb. ■ : . Archbishop Sheehan.was a friend and associate, of the late Dr. Maheffy and,the late Dr. Starkie, .both well-known Trinity men.. ' ■..'... ' ...-.■..