BISHOP MORAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 18, 30 August 1873, Page 8

BISHOP MORAN.

From the Dunedin 'Evening St»r' wo learn that Bishop Moraa delivered an address at the Thames, condemning secret societies, ana that it has Deen "keenly criticised by the Auckland press" His Lordship is represented as having said s— He had gone to the Thames by tlje merest chance, as he said, because he found he could get horne 5 from Napier easier via Auckland. Speaking to his text, he said the history of the world showed that where people were brought up without a religious education, anarch} and insecurity o{ life prevailed The place of religious education could not be supplied by a godless system. An effort was now being made to establish a system which would destroy the Catholic Church, root and branch, aad root out Christian society. There were at the present moment two Churches m the world— one Christian Church, represented by the Catholfo body ; the other Church was devoted to the service of the demon, llus latter anti-Christian Satanic Church found a home iv secret societies, no matter what name they might adopt; and these societies w«w engaged waging a deadly feud against the Catholic Church, which however, would conquer; for there was not a doubfc that, as Chrwfr had said, his Church, which was connected with the Ronmn Pontiff should prevail. All efforts to destroy the Church by persecution, by. fire, or sword, had failed, but the enemies of the Church were gaining experience. They saw it was in vain to try to destroy the Church by these means, and they were now trying the plan of rearing the rising generation in a godless system. All other sects had united to trampte on thena. Anything more atrociously unjust than the present system towards them could not be imagined. He spoke strongly against the tyrannical, atrocious, and unjust law prevailing in nearly all th« Provinces, which taxed them to support a secular system. He urged his hearers to use all legitimate means to overthrow it, it Being contrary to justice, morality, and the well-being of the community.