ROMAN CATHOLICS AND WAR.
Sir,—Tho manifesto of the Roman CathoIk> bishops in your issue of the 23rd inst. contains several statements one would like to criticise. The one statement to which I call attention, and whioh I deliberately contradict, "is that "conscription of tho priests, students, and brothers" is "equivalent to religious persecution." The appeal of the bishops rests on tho idea that priests and othors " have consecrated their lives to tho service of the Prince of Peace." This appeal, if valid, would include all Christians; but this is evidently not intended. The consecration of their lives is something peculiar to priests, something which separates them from their fellow-citizons in respect of political obligations. Othera than bishops havo offered conscientious objections of an equivalent nature, but their objections have been over-ruled, and no one complains of religious persecution.—l am, eta, Alex. M. Ftnlatsoh. Maori Hill, August 24.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17093, 27 August 1917, Page 7
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