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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIV, Issue 45, 4 March 1887, Page 13

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Bagshawe, Bishop of Nottingham, England, in his Advent Pastoral, encourages Catholics to resist the monstrous tyranny of the exactions of titbes for the support of the Anglican Church. He asks :: — •' Why should Catholics and nonconformists have to pay a heavy annual tax for the maintenance of Church of England parsons? Let them be maintained as all other ministers of religion now aie, by the voluntary offerings of their own congregations. These are rich enough, in all conscience, to keep them if they like them, without burdening us for their support. We think, then, that this most unjust annual tax of tithes, which is levied upon the whole country for the benefit of one Protestant sect only, ought to be at once abolished. And we can see no reason why Catholics should not strive for its abolition with all their might and main."