A Sectarianising Government

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 49, 5 December 1907, Page 22

A Sectarianising Government

The Wade-Waddell Government in ,New South Waies have lately' (says the ' Catholic Press ') been l putting grants for several sectarian institutions on • the Estimates, an<il rigidly excluding all Catholic charities.' This' scandal has succeeded another, which was exposed inscathing - terms by the Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney. We refer to the manner in wliich a sectarian institution (the' City Mission), was " put upon the ratepayers of , Sydney by the corporation'" of that city, to the exclusion of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the many other Catholic charities operating there. In the course of a documented discourse, and of a letter to- the daily papers, his Eminence showed that the City -Mission, was a sectarian association, for sectarian purpose's, distributing sectarian tracts, and acting as a proselytising agency.. Catholic charities distributed nothing in salaries ;■ in the case of the City Mission, ' while £7000 had been disbursed, of that -sum- no less than £2147 w&s paid in salaries, £2500 in Bible hall entertainments and such like, while the whole amount disbursed in charity amounted to the magnificient sum .of £"845.'

Some Catholic Emancipation is evidently wanted in New South Wales.