THE BISHOP OF LIMERICK AND MR LECKY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 42, 14 February 1896, Page 27

THE BISHOP OF LIMERICK AND MR LECKY.

The rejoinder of the Bishop of Limerick to Mr Lecky, which was published in the Times is of a most convincing and crushing character. The Catholics of Ireland are undoubtedly handicapped in the matter of university educatiou. Mr Lecky thinks that Trinity College, Dublin, is now sufficiently non-sectarian even for Catholics The Bishop points out that, although professedly non-sectarian, and open to all creeds and classes, still that Trinity College is even now the principle training ground for the ministers of the Irish Protestant Church, and that the prayers and services gone through in the university are a 1 Protes'ant in their framing and origin. What, the Bishop asks, would the Protestants of Ireland say if they were asked to send their Bons to Maynooth, even though every possible guarantee was given that their rights would be respected? Why, there would be a howl at once all over the country against this act of intolerance this infringement of religious liberty on the partof the Catholic authorities. The Bishop i xhorts the present Government to settle, once and for all, tbe question of university education in Ireland, and points out that thin is the beat and surebt way of fostering a spirit of conservatism amongst the Irish people.