WICKEDLY SILENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 304, 14 February 1879, Page 14

WICKEDLY SILENT.

Some time ago the New Zealand Christian Record, published a scries of the most barefaced and wilful falsehoods in reference to Gunv's Compendium of Moral Theology ; and, when refuted, added an atrocious and equally false accusation against the Jesuits as a body. We have waited patiently for an answer, an apology, a retraction on the part of the New Zealand Christian Record, but in vain, No attempt has been made to answer our leaders in reference to these attacks of our contemporary. Nothing we have written has been controverted or denied, for the simple reason that our statements have been correct ; and our request that a passage from any one of the greatest Jesuit writers should be given, in which it is taught that the end justifies the means, has not been complied with. We concluded our first leader on this subject with these words :—": — " It is thus the great anti-Catholic tradition commenced, has been kept alive, and hopes to be perpetuated. Founded in lying and fraud, it has flourished by the same means, and is found living to-day, nourished by the same means. The editor of the Christian Record has had no hesitation in publishing these terrible falsehoods and misrepresentations. Is he just and manly enough to give publicity to the fact that he has been misled ; and Christian enough to apologise for having allowed himself to become an instrument in propagating slanders against his neighbours. We shall see." And we have seen. On the part of the New Zealand Christian Record there has been no retractation, no apology. This silence gives us to understand that we Catholics are to expect no redress, no justice, no truthfulness from the conductors of this journal. This silence proves that the New Zealand Christian Record will continue to give the sanction of its authority to the most untrue and damaging charges against Catholics, and that, so far as Catholics are concerned, deliberate falsehoods once published by it will never be letractcd. If there were any use in doing so, we would again ask our contemporary to point out one passage from any of the greatest Jesuit writers which states that the " end justifies the means."