Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-12
LOCAL EVENTS.
The Dominican School Corner
Stone Blessed.
The Ceremonies at East Los
Angeles.
An Inquest on the Body of John
Brandenburg.
Arrested for Shoplifting-A House. Moving
Contract and the Row 1t
Caused.

Yesterday afternoon the ceremony of
blessing the cornerstone of the new
dominican Sisters school building now
in course of erection, ON the corner of
Griffin avenue and Mozart street, East
Los Angeles, was performed by the Right
Rev. Bishop Mora, in the presence of a
large number of interested spectators.
The proceedings commenced at o'clock
at the Sichel-street church with vespers,
which were attended by large number
OF the members Of the A. O. H., Y. M.
l. and the local branch of the Catholic
Knights. A collection having been
taken up for the benefit of the new
school, the Rev. Father Dockery, of St.
Vincent's church, preached a very elo-
quent sermon on the subject of the rela-
ton of the Catholic church to education.
He said that the church was the
real true educator. She had en-
phasized the building and sus-
tanning of the parochial school, the
Catholic college and the Catholic acad-
emy, as the perfection of man with the
impress of the Divine upon his soul, and
had assured him that to be good citi-
zen is to be faithful worshipper,
adorer and copper of the Divinity whose
image and likeness has been stamped
upon his soul. This is what the Cath
olic education strives to develop, for it
consists in the harmonizing of the finite
with the infinite, the human with the
Divine, of social duties with religious du-
ties, of the immutability of the Catholic
dogma with the progress of intelligence.
This is the Catholic idea-God first,
God last, God always! God, the re-
warder Of the good and the punisher of
the wicked, our first beginning, the
source whence we sprung, the goal to
which we haste Eliminate the
idea OF God from the life
of man, and it is not
worth living! The Catholic education
teaches man that he is in Gods own
temple, framed by Gods own hand,
and as such he must be respected and
must respect his fellow creatures. This
is impossible without religion, for it is
religion alone which can answer the vi
tai and fundamental question of philos-
ophy: "What am I?-whence am r.
whittier do tend?" 1t is religion alone
that impresses on the young and tender
art the Omnipresence of God, that EARTH
so many fingers that point to Him.
so many tongues that sing His praise
We have been grossly misrepresented
by not few individuals, who pose as
staunch patriots, as destroyers of the
free institutions of our country. The
Catholic bishops and priests are looked
upon as snakes hidden in the grass, as
secreted enemies bound by a sworn allie
glance to foreign pOtentate, the pope
of Rome, to destroy the free institutions
of this great, glorious and grand repub-
lie, by aiming our deadly darts at the
public schools. This is as great lie as
ever has been uttered against the Cath
olic church and the indestructible prin-
ciples which are the very soul and sub
stance of her being. Our point in refer
ence to the public schools, stated in
clear and defined terms, is simply this:
They cannot give us the education which
our faith, our duty to the republic as
citizens, and, above all, our duty to God,
demands. We say as Catholic body,
''Let us at least be allowed to retain the
funds that we annually contribute to the
public fund for the support of the
schools, that we cannot and must not
in conscience patroniZe by sending our
children there. Let those who feel that
they are good enough for them, use
them. AS citizens who claim and do
possess staunch and genuine patriotism,
we must exclaim with the immortal
Washington, 'Let parents be on their
guard against the delusion in educating
their children that morality can be pre-
served without religionW
At the close of the services at the
church procession was formed, in
which about sixty children participated,
and marched to the school on the corner
of Griffin avenue and Mozart street,
where Bishop Mora, assisted by the Rev.
Fathers Dockery, Murray, Hall and
Hartnett, performed the ceremony of
blessing the corner stone.