THE NEW ZEALAND TABLET

Otago Witness, Issue 3332, 23 January 1918, Page 29

THE NEW ZEALAND TABLET

We learn that on Friday last, at the Diocesan Synod of the Catholic clergy of Dunedin, the Most Rev. Dr Verdon presiding, the following resolution, proposed by the Very Rev. Dean Burke, and seconded by the Very Rev. Father O'Donnell, was passed enthusiastically: " We, the clergy of the Catholic Diocese of Dunedin assembled in Synod, desire to put on record our appreciation of the ability and spirit with which the New Zealand Tablet is at present conducted. We hold that the New Zealand Tablet should be an open, honest teacher and guide in the matter of true Catholic doctrine and genuine Catholic opinion and sentiment. We are convinced of the necessity of openly declaring and boldly defending Catholic rights, especially in the matter of Catholic education—rights ignored hitherto by New Zealand Governments and political parties. .We declare the policy of conciliation and timid ' wait and see ' to be a helpless one, and, iriHeed, a hopeless one, where no sense of justice in regard to our rights shows itself in succeeding .New Zealand. Governments. Hence we % approve of the strong, self-reliant, and self-determined attitude taken up by the present editor of the New Zealand Tablet—the effectiveness of 'his militant policy being evidenced by the attacks mode upon him by editors and writers in papers showing almoet daily unfriendliness to the Catholic Church and to Ireland, the motherland of 95 per cent, of the readers and supporters of the New Zealand Tablet."