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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOR CATH
oLIc CHILDREN.
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a Catholic school will be the rare ex.
ception to be excused only by most
exceptionable situations. This morn.
ing. we chant the victories of Catholic
education in America.
Efficiency Of Catholic schools-Munif1.
cence Of Catholics Towards
Catholic Education.
1t was wont to be said that, what
ever the good will and the effort, Cath
Ollie schools could never rival the
schools of the State in their efficiency
to impart secular knowledge, that, in
consequence, Catholics would be de.
tered from patronizing them. No fear
is today admissible. The Catholic
school is its own argument. Its eff
cheney is proven. The Catholic school
challenges superiority. Wherever
comparative examinations are had, our
Catholic boys and girls rank high in
markings; wherever in the several
callings of later life ability, together
with punctuality, honor and honesty,
Is at a premium, our youths, former
pupils of Catholic schools, command
and obtain favor. No longer is there
dispute as to the efficiency of our
Catholic schools in matters of secular
knowledge; their efficiency is patent,
incontrovertible fact.
|. 1t was wont to be said that the
Catholic people would deem the finan.
cial burden of supporting their own
schools too heavy to be borne, and
quickly would grow impatient of it.
Apparently there was much reason for
this assertion. The Catholic people
as a class are not the possessors of
wealth; they are compelled by the law
of the land, while supporting their own
schools, to do their share to aid the
schools of the State. But those who
spoke Of peril on this score did not
know the Catholics of America, did
not measure Alright the strength of
their faith, and their power of sacri-
flee in its defence. Few things in the
history of Christian generosity, the
world over, parallel the munificence
Of the Catholics of America on behalf
of their schools, their colleges and
their university. They rose to the full
intelligence of the need there is for
Catholic schools; they were deter.
mined to be equal to all demands that
this need should impose upon them.
No longer is there fear lest the
Church may not safely count upon her
people in all that she undertakes to
save the faith of her children, to put
into plenary execution her commission
to teach the Gospel of supernatural
truth to all nations, in all ages. Mag.
nificent they are, the Catholic people
OF America, a spectacle in which man
and angels must take delight.
American Public Opinion Disarmed.
In America the position of the Cath.
ole Church on the question of schools
was misunderstood. Time has iusti.
fed her in the eyes of American pub.
lie opinion.
Our shrinkage from contact with the
secularized school was interpreted as
opposition to knowledge itself, as a
covert effort on the part Of the Church
to hold her people in the darkness of
servitude. catholic schools among
the most efficient in the land, priests
and people eager to uphold and mul.
tiply them. Unlimited sacrifices that
all our children be educated and rise
high in scholarship. have made clear
that the Church in America is the
friend and abettor Of education, from
the lowest primary school.room to the
most learned university. He who runs
may read: he who still in America
prattles Of the Catholic Church a the