CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 292, 13 December 1899, Page 3

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

TO THB EDITOB. Bra,— ln ooaA»n°° with the rest of the public I received * Iwfle* beaded " Tnß Catholic Bohools," and uigned by the Rev Father Goggan. It is msneoessary to reprint the whola of th* oonteota, aa ifi is of eaob recent orlg'". i»!l mast remember it. It is enough to say that it ia a claim made on behalf of the Catholic Chnroh for State aid for Oatbolio schools on the groadfis tb.it "we GatholiOß m Mew Zealand pay taxes, aad yet are furthermore obliged to maintain Catholic schools." I have no inclination to dispute the question, since it has been thoroughly thrashed oat long sinoe, but will BBk you to publish the enoloeed cutting from the Spectator, date September 30tb, 1899, wbioh will show at any rate the liberal spirit wbioh Rovernß eduoational matters m other parts of the world, where the power of fhe flatholio Churoh ia supreme.— l am, 4t0., PbOXSSTAHT. The Spanish Bishops who reoently laid down the seventeen "Principles" which const be aooepted before a onion of all Catholios could be hoped for, have for--varied an address to the Queen d! Spain m «hi'* h tbe y 'other explain their giews. They J^niplaia of the "impudence and -andaoiiv" «?* Protestantism, which actually •rf "ita nnhrHi "* lioeaae of the Iln P loaß Prees-'" and deolat" lhft * •» University subject themselves to the tu^i^^S?' They point to many sooial scab.** l h *F°Tk ing the horrible blasphemies heat n^ streets, and finally demand from the *' ■eminent a remedy. The Queen, of courb ' m reply, only promised to consult her i adviserß. Obviously the Bishops of Spain I agree with the present Pope, who, as a correspondent of the Times points out m BnEnoyolioalisßuedon June 30th, 1888, deglared that " one thing remains perpetually true, that liberty accorded to all and for all is not desirable for its own sake, since it is repngnant to reason that what ia false should enjoy the same rightß as what is true. It is strange to see m regard to toleration the extent to wbioh the disciples of Liberalism depart from the equity and prudence of the Church." Yet Rome insists that where Protestantism reigns it must fully tolerate Roman Catholicism.