BAN ON LIQUOR

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1936, Page 7

BAN ON LIQUOR

SYDNEY CATHOLIC FUNCTIONS

SYDNEY, November 8,

The use of wines for any intoxicating liquor is prohibited at Catholic functions by Archbishop' Kelly, in a pastoral letter to the’clergy of the archdiocese of Sydney. The Archbishol says that lie regards the use of liquor at social reunions as “a grave scandal,” anc asks for the publication of the prohibition in each church. ' “In honour of Christ, it behoves m to remove or to abate the scandal; which come from popular practices in social diversions,” said Archbishop Kelly.

' “One such is the growing habit of drinking* wines and inebriating liquor? at social assemblies in support ol charitable and cultural undertakings.

“We make the exclusion of intoxicating drink a condition sine qua non for permission to have social reunions under Catholic patronage, and we commend this prohibition to the special guardianship of ‘Catholic Action.’

; “Of other scandals —the abuse ot the cinema, the sea beaches, of gambling, and of dishonest habits —we exhort you to be watchful over youi Hecks.”

Archbishop .Maunix,.,at a conference of Catholic clergy in Melbourne in June, directed that intoxicating liquor was not to be used at parochia functions. i

This order was made to apply to all gatherings promoted for Catholic purposes by past pupils’ associations auxiliaries, or Catholic societies of anv kind.