PROSELYTISING IN PALESTINE.

New Zealand Tablet, 21 November 1918, Page 18

PROSELYTISING IN PALESTINE.

Cardinal Logue, in a letter to one of the Dublin papers,-exposes an outrageous malpractice against the poorer Catholics in Palestine. His Eminence writes: "I have received through the French Embassy in London a letter from the Vicar-General of the Catholic Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem. In the letter he states that large sums of money have been collected for sufferers from the tyranny of the Turks in Palestine. This money is employed in providing food and clothing for the poor sufferers, and workshops are opened for the employment of the women and girls. He complains that the Protestants are served first; next to them the Greek schismatics, and the Catholics are served last, or, rather, generally not at all, up to the time of. his writing. "He says he has consulted the Catholic parish priests of Jaffa and Ramleh, who affirm that women and girls are not accepted in the workshops unless they consent to join the Protestants in prayer—a condition for the..relief of pressing needs to which we are well accustomed in Ireland. "He asks me to come to the relief of the Catholics by having Catholic members appointed to the committees and enrploved in the distribution of relief. This, of course, is out of ray power. The only' thing I can do is to direct public attention to the matter through the press. "There was general rejoicing when the Holy Places in Palestine had fallen into the hands of Christians. It would be lamentable if Catholics in "Palestine and Syria should wish to be back under the rule of the Turks, which is not unlikely should discrimination such as is referred to and efforts to rob them of their faith be persisted in." Evidently (comments the Catholic Herald) those responsible for the disbursement of the funds in question follow the familiar model to which Catholics are so accustomed in "charitable'.' institutions, "seaside homes," etc., in Scotland —viz., "No prayers, no supper.'' _____________