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New Zealand Tablet, 5 December 1918, Page 42

RELIGION AND SCIENCE. The enemies of the Faith are never tired of repeating that the Catholic Church is an obstacle to the progress of science. The falsity of this charge is proved by the fact that so many of her devoted children, real practical Catholics, have been eminent in every branch of science. Not only laymen, but priests, too, and religious, whose aim in life was to teach others the way to heaven, found time to advance purely natural knowledge. Copernicus was a priest and a canon ; Mendel was priest and abbot; Stenscn was a bishop, and Linacre became a priest late in life. These are persons, even if they existed alone, whose claims to recognition among the great men of science no one will deny. Our late Pontiff, Pope Leo XIII., in a letter addressed to the members of the scientific society of Brussels, exhorted them to apply themselves to piety and to science so as “to prove that there never can exist any real opposition between science and religion.” The lives of these religious, eminent as scientists, makes for truth and holiness, for holiness by the bright example of humility and obedience, and for truth in the testimony that science is not the monopoly of materialism and rationalism, but is compatible with a deep faith in the truths of revealed religion and the teachings of the Catholic Church. My wife — just listen to her for 10 minutes and you will want to run to the nearest grocer for a packet of the genuine “NO RUBBING” Laundry Help. Economical too.—lrishman. MEMORIAL TO FATHER DORE AN APPEAL. At a meeting of the parishioners of the late Father Core, held on Sunday, July 28, it was resolved that a suitable memorial be erected to his memory; and as it was Father Core's most keen desire, often expressed, to erect a new church at Foxton, that said memorial be a new church. It was also resolved that a Subscription List be now opened, so that the many friends of Father Dor© throughout the Dominion may have an opportunity of showing their appreciation of him who was such a sincere and faithful friend to their boys in their dire hour of need on the stricken field of Gallipoli. Mr. James Hurley was elected chairman of the Memorial Committee, Father Forrestal and Mr. Denis Purcell joint treasurers and secretaries. Subscriptions will be received by the above, and also by the Tablet in which all will be acknowledged.