"AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 273, 26 July 1878, Page 17

"AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD."

The offensive manner in which the Protestant press has recently acted towards Bishop Moran and the Key. Father HennebSv has possibly brought some more grist to your mill. The Catholics of the colony probably begin to see now what they should have long a<r o seen— that it is their duty to support a friendly, in place of a hostife newspaper press. There is no reason why a Catholic journal if adequately supported, should not serve all the general purposes of an ordinary broad sheet, besides giving Catholic news and defending the Catholic cause against all its enemies. Every journal in this colony whatever may be pretended to the contrary, is like every schooleither Protestant or Catholic, The pretended non-Srian and purely secular journals and schools are either decidedly Protestant or something worse. Why, then, should Catholics suppStS journals with their money if they can find a journal conducted on Catholic principles, which can fully support all their wants in the way of newspaper reading ? The Tablet is being well-wonderfully wSiT SUP r r ,5 d-d -' but lfc might easil^ be befcter ** Catholics general were true to then- cause, and acted a noble part to it S«"erauy Every non-Catholic book or newspaper is not necessarily injunous to Catholic faith and morals. But it is plain tnat?helrSt : 2Ztt?* Ol J b m, S °i- Gither ° penly and &7Owe **> SCindirfctty and m a stealthy insidious way. Protestant publishers, even the most "respectable" m the trade, and newspapers too, wm within the limits of the law of the land and common decency', Jubfish any* thing that will pay, however hostile it may be to christiki princiE This shows the necessity of Catholics supporting a cSoUc ffi" and m £ re eß P ecia «y a Catholic periodical press. aMlouc "ess, The newspaper and the magazine are the most powerful arms of the press They have long been and are now being Ste^wiSi terrible force against the Church everywhere in En|la?d and these S?w c L eS H iaUy ' U £t Churcll bad not been sustained bH divine hand it never could have survived such hostility WTiat an their own press the cold shoulder is something deplorable and Suf Si B t^th bb e U wS c ? ff ° rthem ' establishment of a Catholic newspaper in Dunedin, Sder ttie vir?

nose of Dr. Stuart and Mr. Macandrew and Attorney-General Stout. I presume we may say this is substantially the doing- of the Catholic Church or the Pope, since Dr. Morau, the representative of the Pope in Otago, has had so great a share in the establismont of the Tablet by his purse and patronage. It gives many outward and visible tokens of increasing prosperity. We cannot wonder at this since it received the blessing of the late saintly Pope. Talk of the decay of Papal power after that ! The church may suffer much from the hostility of her open enemies, and still more from the coolness of many of her pretended friends, or even the actual treachery of some of them, who bow the knee to her, talk of their " Catholic instincts," while they openly and persistently defy her authority and go with her enemies. But in spite of all that she advances triumphantly, pitying and praying for her enemies, or smiling at their futile efforts to arrest their progress. Even the Rev. Dr. Wallis, M.H.E,, told us at an Auckland Orange demonstration not long ago that the Pope was fast getting Australia to himself. This is attributed to " mixed marriages" in great part. The Church does nob like mixed marriages as we all know. But it is the prerogative of the Almighty to bring good out of evil. Who can measure the power of a good Catholic woman in the world, or a bad one either. Thank God, the priests, and the nuns, we have many good, and few bad, Catholic women among us.