The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-22
SERIOUS CHARGES
 HURLED AT YALE
Bishop M'Faul Says With Harvard and Princeton She Teaches Immortality.
ALSO UNDERMINING FAITH
Rascality and Disrespect of Womankind
 Are Other Things Taught.

Declaring that institutions such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton under
 mined the faith and injured the moral
 ity of their students. Bishop McFaul of the Trenton (N- J.) diocese made a
 uati1g class of the College of St. Fran
 cis Xavier, New York, to do their part in the apostolate of the laity. The two methods he pointed out to them were to support the eCatholic press and to encourage Catholic education. The Bishop said in part:
 'tOne of the great problems which has been considered by the American Federation of Catholic Societies is Catholic education. Yale, Harvard and Princeton are undermining the faith and injuring the morality of their stu dents. In recent celebrated case in this city a girl declared on the wit ness stand that she did not know the Ten Commandments. They don't know them at these institutions. The Bible used to be the great pride of the Pro- testants. It is forgotten now.
 eff people knew the rascalities, the immoralities, and the disrespect for fe- male virtue rife within their walls. If parents send their boys to institutions the professors of which teach that there is no such thing as an absolute distinctionj between right and wrong they can have little regard for them.
 'I have known sad things among the people who are filled with the fanatic and lunatic desire to get into society have known girl, the daughter of good Irish parents. who refused to have her child baptized because she thought it would injure her social am- bitfons. It is the same social. ambition which drives men to send their sons to Yale, Harvard and Princeton.
 eff we want to save the faith we must send the boys and girls to Cath clic institutions, where they will have the Ten Commandments stamped on their hearts. No institution can en-
 dure unless it is founded on religion and morality. The salvation of the Republic depends on Christian educa- tion.
 Some of the great educators of have recognized this already, and know that there must be some moral education in the universities.''
 The Bishop closed by quoting Mark Hanna, who had declared that if ev- CT the liberties of America were en- dangered it would have the Catholic Church on which to rely.
 At the opening of his speech the Bishop urged the necessity of sup porting the Catholic newspapers, and quoted the influence of the 500 German Catholic newspapers, with their 3,5OO,- poo circulation. He complained that whnever he looked in the house of a Catholic for Catholic newspaper he room.
 'I see," he said, ''the latest novels in the parlor, but they tell me that they have the Catholic newspaper in the bedroom. It may be so.'A
 Bishop McFaul claimed that the leakage of the Catholic Church in America has amounted to 25 900, GOO souls. He estimates the annual num- per of conversions throughout the United States at 23, GOO. but he pointed put that if there had been no loss half he nation should now have been in the bosom of the church. It is to remedy his state of things that he implored .he graduates to remember the Apos- .olate of the Laity.