NEW CHAIR OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

New Zealand Tablet, 30 January 1919, Page 19

NEW CHAIR OF RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

A few months ago the course of religious instruction, for which a chair was recently established by a Frenchman, a. member of a religious Order, in "the Gregorian University at Rome, was inaugurated with applications for admission. Not only University students and young men who have finished their intermediate course applied, but also a number of adults who are known to be men of learning and culture. Jt is believed that the new chair will have the effect cf bringing many laymen into closer contact with Christian philosophy and the theories of the Church on delicate points in science. The new chair will to some extent have the effect which the teaching at the Universities of the Middle Ages in Italy had when each of them had a chair of theology frequented by laymen. As La Givilta Gattolica remarks, it was this that enabled a layman like Dante to write so profoundly on theological questions.