RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12766, 7 February 1910, Page 3

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOLS.

THE NEW SOUTH WALES SYSTEM. CONDEMNED BY CARDINAL MORAN. [Paras Association— Copyright.] (Received Feb. 7, 0.50 a.m.) Sydney, Feb. 6. Cardinal Moran, while distributing prizes, made an attack upon the Minister of Education. He said the Scripture lessons given in the public schools were not only irreligious, but of defective literary merit. The Minister of Education had said that the lessons were the joint production of Anglican and Catholic' prelates. Archbishop Whately and Bishop Murray. That statement was a falsehood and such a barefaced one that the Minister either made it knowing it to be false, and if so was unfit for the place he held, or made the statement through inconceivable ignorance, in which case he was ■educationally not qualified to be Minister of Education. The Cardinal declared thai non r sectarian education, as it was called, was nothing more than a nondescript system of irreligious belief which might be more or less conformable with Protestant principles and consistent with Protestant tenets, but as viewed by Catholics it was a stereotyp©d system of infidelity and agnosticism.