The Catholic University.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 24, 13 June 1901, Page 1

The Catholic University.

Butler aptly described the prejudiced man in the following lines -. For all men live and judge amisa Whose talents jump not just with his.

The opposition to the establishment of a Catholic University in Ireland comes chiefly from a set of noisy and strong-jawed sworn intolerants who would not allow themselves to be drawn into kindly thought or friendly feeling towards their ' Papist ' fellow-citizens even ' though one rose from the dead.' The solution of the difficulty may be greatly aided by the conviction

that is growing fast in the minds British political parties that the outcry against the foundation of such a University is merely the expression of a strong sectarian feeling.

In its issue of April 27 the Saturday Review says : — 'The opposition to the Catholic University is theological in the worst associations of that term. We should be sorry to call it religious. None of the arguments put forward against the expediency of creating this University bears examination. It is said, for instance, that the teaching in such a University would have a Roman bias right through. That is an argument against denominational education in general. Those who are in favor of the English denominational schools and colleges, which are mainly kept up out of public money, have no right to use such an argument. But it is just they who are using it. Secularists are entitled to the argument. It resolves itself simply into animus against a particular Church. That is not a legitimate position ; it is a position no Englishman ever takes up except in the case of the Roman Church ; and the real statesman will not recognise such illogical intolerance as a guide in policy.'