The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-06-25

For Catholics all hopes OF wealth
and happiness, In time and In eternity,
are wrapt up in religion---in rsiigion
as expounded and taught in the
Catholic Observation-Disclosures ireland.
This is not an odd line, indeed. it
is the most opportune period Of the
year to place before the Catholic
community few considerations re-
garding the extreme necessity OF de-
voting particular attention to the
question of Catholic education, says
the Perth, Australia, Record. Catholic
parents everywhere are at the mo-
ment planning and making ready for
the re-opening of parochial schools
and choosing the High School or Col
lege at which their children may pur-
sue their studies in preparation for
the battle of life, making sure first,
it may be trusted, that none but Catho-
lie educational establishments would
be considered in the selection
in the interests of Catholicity aud all
that it means.
Sanity pioneer Catholic Mis-
sionsries in every age and in all the
countries of the world-not even to
the exclusion Of our City of Perth
in it's earliest days-have made it
their foremost business to found
schools (Churches followed), for
without schools their labors for the
salvation of souls, difficult as they
were, may probably have been in
vain, or at all events almost impos-
sible of success.
There is no doubt but what all
parents worthy of the name look
for continued progress and good
scholastic results in their children.
Would It not be poor look out
that with the comfort and happi-
ness that Catholic education affords,
our parents could, more happily
than many others, look forward to
real and lasting moral benefits and
material advancement that accrue
to our schools interchangeable cur
riculum? But let this side OF the
question weigh as heavily upon
parents as it may, the heavier the
better on those who may yet be
tempted to give the secular aspect
| of education prior consideration in
the career of child. the spiritual
| side, Gods place in the world of
learning, has claim upon the Catholic
conscience such as to warrant def
mite attitude by the Church in the
matter of the religious training of
youth. Efficiency, thorough and
! entire, embracing the requirements
of the Church and al the demands
| that modern circumstances have
| created, is resultant upon the course
of studies inculcated in Catholic
schools. Moreover, the wonderful
/ successes in the field of secular edu.
cation that have attended the ef
forts of our teaching orders of Broth.
ers and Nuns have surely been rec
! ognized as an abundant recompense
for the double tax the Catholic com
munity shoulders in expressly pro
viding schools wherein religious in
stinct is nurtured and the Faith jeal
ously guarded.
The duty, therefore, Of parents il
the education Of their children is
twofold. First, they are bound tc
protect them against evil influences
and next they are bound to give
them, according to their means
positive opportunities Of physical
mental, and spiritual development
Their first duty, therefore, is to keeI
them from any school which in prac
tice refuses to acknowledge that since
man is Gods creature, mans first duty
is to God.
Hence parents cannot in con
science permit the child to frequent
an educational establishment In
which positive religion and Gods
rights over man are held to be oil