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London, England, 1869-09-03 00:00:00

RESOLUTIONS OF THE IRISH BISHOPS.

((Prong the Tablet just published.)
The Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ire-
land, assembled at St. Patrick's College, May-
nooth , on Wednesday, the 18th of August, 1869,
his Eminence Cardinal Cullen presiding, deem it
their duty to place ou record at this important
crisis the following resolutions respecting the Edu-
cation and Land Questions -
1. They reiterate their condemnation of the
mixed system of education, whether primary, in-
termediate, or university, as grievously and intrin-
sically dangerous to the faith and morals of Ca-
tholic youth; and they declare that to Catholics
only, and under the supreme control of the Church
in all things appertaining to faith and morals,
can the teaching of Catholics be safely entrusted.
Fully relying on the love which the Catholics of
Ireland have ever cherished for their ancient faith,
and on the filial obedience uniformly manifested
towards their Lastors, the Bishops call upon the
clergy and the laity of their respective flocks to
oppose by every constitutional means the extension
or perpetuation of the mixed system, whether by
the creation of new institutions, by the mainte-
nance of old ones, or by changing Trinity College,
Dublin, into a mixed college.
11. At the same time they recognise the right,
as well as the duty, of Catholic parents to pro-
cure as fur as possible for their children the ad-
vantagts of a good secular education. Justice
demands that Catholic youth should enjoy endow-
ments and all other privileges on terms of perfect
equality with the youth Gf other persuasions ;
without which, equality in the matter of education,
religious equality cannot be said to have any real
existence.
111. The Bishops, without any wish to interfere
with the sights of persons of a different denomina-
tion, demand for Catholics Catholic education,
which alone is consonant to their religious prin-
ciples.
IV. The assembled Prelates, learning with plea-
sure that it is the intention of her Majesty's pre-
sent advisers to legislate for Ireland in accordance
with the wishes of its peop'e —and of this they have
given good earnest—trust that the distinguished
Statesman Low at the head of the Government will,
with the aid of his able colleagues, give to Irish
Catholics a complete system of secular education
based upon religion ; for it alone can be iu keeping
with the feelings and requirements of the vast ma-
jority of the nation.
V. As regar is higher education, since the Pro-
testants of this country have had a Protestant
University for 300 years, and have it still, the
Catholic people of Ireland clearly have a right to a
Catholic University.
VI. But should her Majesty's Govcrnment be
unwilling to increase the number of universities in
this country, the Bishops declare that religious
equality cannot be realised unless the degrees, en-
dowments, and other privileges enjoyed by their
fellow-subjects of a different religion, be placed
within the reach of Catholics in the fullest sense of
equality. The injustice of denying to them a parti-
cipation in those advantages, except at the cost of
principle and conscience, is aggravated by the con-
sideration that whilst they contribute their share to
the public funds for the support of educational in

stitutions from which conscience warns them away,
they have moreover to tax themselves for the educa-
tion of their children in their own colleges and
university.

VII. Should it please her Majesty's Government,
therefore, to remove the many grievances to which
Cath..dies are subjected by existing university ar-
rangements, and to establish one National Univer-
sity in this kingdom for examining candidates and
conferring degrees, the Catholic people of Ireland
are entitled in justice to demand that in such uni-
versity, or annexed to it—

(a) They shall have a distinct college, conducted
upon purely Catholic principles, and at the same
time fully participating in the privileges enjoyed
by other colleges of whatever denomination or cha-
racter.

(b) That the university honours and emoluments
be accessible to Catholics equally with their Pro-
testant fellow-subjects.
(c) That the examinations and all other details
of university arrangement be free from every in-
fluence hostile to the religious sentiments of
Catholics, and that with this view the Catholic
element be adequately represented upon the senate,
or other supreme university body, by persons enjoy-
ing the confidence of the Catholic bishops, T riests,
and people of Ireland.
VIII. The bishops also declare, that the
Catholics of Ireland are justly entitled to their due
proportion of the public funds hitherto set apart
for education in the Royal and other endowed
schools.
IX. The bishops furthermore declare, that a
settlement of the university question, to be com-
plete, and, at the same time, in accordance with the
wishes of the Catholic people of Ireland, must in-
clude the re-arrangements of the Queen's Colleges
on the denominational principle.
X. Finally, the Bishops of Ireland, deeply sym-
pathising with the sufferings of their faithful flocks,
believe that the settlement of the Land Question is
essential to the peace and welfare of the United
Kingdom. They recognise the rights and the duties
of landlords. They claim, in the same spirit, the
rights as they recognise the duties of tenants. They
believe that the comparative destitution, the chronic
discontent, and the depressing discouragement of
the people of Ireland are, at this period of her his-
tory, to be attributed more to the want of a settle-
ment of this question on fair and equitable prin-
ciples than to any other cause. Therefore, in the
interest of all classes, they earnestly hope that the
responsible advisers of the Crown will take this
most important subject into immediate considera-

tion, and propose to Parliament such measures as
may restore confidence, stimulate industry, increase
national wealth, and lead to general union, content-
ment, and happiness.
The above resolutions were unanimously adopted
at a meeting of all the Catholic Archbishops and
Bishops of Ireland, held at Maynooth, on the 18th
August of the present year 1869.

PAUL CARD. CULLEN, Chairman.

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