CARDINAL MORAN'S OPINION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 40, 3 October 1901, Page 4

CARDINAL MORAN'S OPINION.

Ok the 18th ult. his Eminence Cardinal Moran visited a bazaar? which was being held in the Newtown Town Hall, in aid of the funds of St. Kieran'e parish, Darlinghurst, when he delivered an interesting address. The following report is taken from the Sydney Mornlny Herald. — 'Fairs (said his Eminence) brought together the people, and assisted, to promote that love and concord so desirable. Those who were not Catholics were present that day in numbers. This he was pleased to see. In Australia they bad a broad and enlightened people, who were ever ready to assist in every movement for the good of the nation, no matter by whom inaugurated. Of course, they met with some who were narrow-minded enough to have strange ideas of the doings of the Catholic Church, but even these people, when they oame to rub shoulders with their Roman Catholic brethren, soon began to find they were wrong in their ideas, and the absurdities whioh pervaded their minds soon disappeared. There were a few others, however, who were very bitter towards their Catholic oitizens, and were so without cauße or reason. For suoh they would pray, and would earnestly hope that some day even these people would become friends of the Catholio Church. Disraeli, one of the great leaden of England, in his young days had a bitter hatred towards the Catholio Church. Even so strong was he that the great O'Connell termed him a descendant of the Impenitent Thief. But in the course of years a change took place, and Disraeli altered his opinions in this respect ; and in the same way those so-called leaders of the Orangemen in this State when they posed as teachers and leaders to the Catholio party were only smiled at, and they (the Catholics) prayed that the time would speedily oome when those foolish people would see things in their true light. It was recognised by all broad-minded and enlightened people that the Catholic Church was the