CATHOLIC GIRL GUIDES IN LONDON.

New Zealand Tablet, 14 November 1918, Page 37

CATHOLIC GIRL GUIDES IN LONDON.

Catholic Girl Guides in London ! When blessing the new colors of a company of Girl Guides at the Sacred Heart Convent, London, H.E. Cardinal Bourne, said: “This is the first time I have been asked to bless the colors for Girl Guides, though 1 have often done so for Boy Scouts. lam very glad, then, to bless and to deliver into your hands these flags, that they may be carried before you and remind you of your promise of loyalty to God, to King, and Empire. I always attach great importance to Catholics taking part in an// national movement in which the// can join without sacrifice of Catholic principle.; and this is, I am sure, the case with your association. I was able to assure myself some years ago that it was so in the case of the Boy Scouts, but more was wanted, and my opinion was asked as to how far religion should be a factor in such a movement. I answered that it was all-important that whatever religious belief was held by the members, they should he encouraged to practise if openly and faithfully. I hear that this is the case with the Girl Guides.”