TO EXPEL THE MONKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11843, 21 December 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)

TO EXPEL THE MONKS.

PROTESTANT ALLIANCE TO TAKE

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

The Protestant Alliance intends to move in the High Courts very soon with the object of enforcing certain sections of the Catholic Emancipation Act against the French religious orders who have lately arrived in England.

Large numbers of the members of these orders have settled in England, the Isle of Wight and the Bow district of London being favourite places of settlement.

' The Protestant Alliance {the Central News says) view with the deepest concern the arrival of so large a number-of Roman Catholic orders in this country. The alliance, having obtained counsel's opinion, have decided to institute legal proceedings with a;view to securing the banishment of the French orders under the Emancipation Act of 1829.

Two sections of that Act are relied upon, it is said. The 28th section says among other things that "it is expedient to make provisions for the gradual suppression and final prohibition of Jesuits and members of other religious orders, communities, or societies of the Church of Rome."

Another section of the same Act that is relied upon, provides that "if any Jesuit or member of any such religious order, community, or society as aforesaid shall, after the commencement of this Act, come,into this realm, he shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of. a misdemeanour, and being thereof lawfully convicted; shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from, the ■ United Kingdom for the term of his natural life."

These provisions in the Catholic Emancipation Act have never been repealed.Daily Mail. ■