The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-07-21
OPPOSED By PRELATES.

OPPOSED BY PRELATEs.
BirreII Educational Bill RoundIy Con-
demned by Irish Bishops.
The Church in Ireland continues to
stand nobly by the Church in England
in her battle against the Birrtll Educa-
ton Bill. Speaking at the annual
meeting of the Maynooth Union. last
week, His Eminencc Cardinal Logue,
who presided, in the course of his
opening address said there was one
thing at least that he was convinced
of. and that was that the clergy of the
country had more troublesome times
before them than had been experienced
in the past They saw that their
neighhorS ON the other side of the
channel. their poor Irish Catholics i'm
England. who formed the majority of
the Catholic people there, and the Eng
lisll Catholics. were struggling for the
preservation of the Faith of their
children. He trusted it might be long
for them in Ireland, but come it might
and if it should happen To come there
would not be Il more cffectual way of
meeting it than to have the clergy of
Ireland, With the Bishops at their head
and the faithful people ut their back
moving as one man to oppose any
thing that would Interfere with or
weaken the grand Inheritance of the
Faith which WAS handed down to them
by their torcfatherS.
The Ri. FEY. DR.. O'Dwyer. Bishop oi
Limerick, speaking at the distribution
ut prizes at the Laurel Hill Convent
Schools. Limerick. the same day said
it was an open secret that {, Srlr,u"
was being cOncocted for the introduce
ton into Ireland of secular schools
under the control Of local committees.
He entirely objected to anything of
The kind: it would be secularism. ANA
/ it would be of Importance to stop this
KIND of thing ut once. Let the phi
mary schools do their work and the
! theirs. but it would only end in colt
fusion il that department got control
Of the schools of the country. Refer
ring tn the Education BILL he said that
nothing had impressed him more lately
than the cont cmptuouS disregard of
this government for Irish opinion. and
II Mr.. Long or Mr. Wyndham had left
Il gra,naphonc in Dublin castle it could
not grind out more tlippant and empty
possible subject. All over Irish admin
istrati"n it WAS the same: the govern
mcnt did Just what they liked; the
Liberals had such I, majority they
thought they could ride rough shod
over opinions in the three Kingdoms
Proceeding. the Bishop said: 1T is !;
great comfort to see in schools Sucl
as this the ripe fruit of Il full Catholi,
education. and to recognize the i'm.
mrnse debt of gratitude which this cit,
owes to the good nuns who conduc
these schools, as our whole countr,
does to the teaching Orders which are
doing such invaluable work. But it |:
no comfort to contemplate the position
of their sisters and of the whole syS
ten Of Catholic education in England
secure upon the shore. but they ar,
tossing on the waves. and one shrink
with pain from thinking what may b.
their fate. and with them of the grea
interests of our Church which hay
grown up in England within the las
hundred years. What is to become o
the nuns in England. who are TIL
mainstay of Catholic education: rh;,
is question to which should lik
they to be left to the tender mercie
of the broad minded. tolerant. an
sympathetic Local Authorities of Eng
land and Wales? Yet, assuredly, the
must have been included in the as
surances with which T. p. O'Conno
gave to the Catholics of England thu,
their schools would be protected wi
it be open to these authorities to sa
in the case of some great school whic
I II community of nuns have built VI
and carried on with conspicuous sue
> cess for years, I'VE will appoint Cath
olic teachers as vacancies occur, bu
Q we will not appoint nuns?" If so. tn
: situation would be very serious With
+ in Il few days we shall know their fat
l and the fate of all Catholic educatio
5 as far as this bill is concerned.
This education bill has nothing t
do with education. 1t is Noncom
fornist Establishment Bill. and tn
} more l think of it, the more convince
am that it ought never become Law