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A CATHOLIC WEEKLY CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE PRICE THREEPENCE
STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Registered at the G.P.O., Perth, for Transmission by Post as a Newspaper.
ESTABLISHED 1874.
Vol. LAX.
PERTH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1933
No. 2,789
Catholic Action in Spain COURAGEOUS REPLY TO GOVERNMENT by the province in all Spain that, in the course lornia, venerated and loved his des of its history, has not produced a friar, people: with him. are honoured Brocanonised or not, who has become ss•lit and admirable Franciscan which our children atiVe will not S. in protest against a law ;:lerhis for or founder a as either famous, That is why we tending laic scho, sanctity or miracles, for his works as prthibits teachings by Franciscans, pismars and are organising sc:. schools a public servant, missionary, poet, ora- who were tlle 6rst to found free i'or all *..) that Eondary instre. tor. scientist, etc. Taking one of these for the people, not only in Spain, but sul)statution fQr :he costly and we take eminent men as a central figure and, in also in America. In Aragon, of the decree , l by the the Religious ( :founder Calasanz, ,de Jose of $okn . J grcup turn, one inore ;overrtmen t, w 1 : educaeach . the tnefifs- and tiltiries Of the Piarists. the apostle of popular work of fiction .lisastrous policy Order to which he belonged, a great tion in Spain and Italy. His sons the which it has tinflf r.aken. in nati.:nal homage for the Religious Es-'. plapians. organised the studies Don Angel IIt.7 1:1, president of the the Spanish Universities in the eighOrders is being developed Spanish Central • non of Catholic Acteenth century, and introduced the A Reply to the Government. tion, thus deela:- • d the standpoint of of science into the secondaL:: study Balethe in example, for have, "We the Catholic part :its of Spain, in an inIn Navarre, St. Francis schools. the Serra, Junipero Fra aric Islands, terview with me. great apostle and evangelises of Cali- Xavier, the great missionary; in GuThe position Catholics," Senor puzco, St. Ignatius of Loyola; in Avila. Herrera continued. 'is perfectly definSt. Teresa:. in Salamanca. the great ed in the face of the. new Law on Contheologians of the University, Vittoria sancour give gregations. Wt. wilt not and Fra Luis de Leon. whose statue tion to laic scho-is so far as the chileven now crowns the artistic enclodren of those par,nts who oppose them -tiro; in Granada, that other Fra Luis, are concerned. Nor does it follow who forged the national language; in I that the new law responds to the sentiCaheresy. other C.;aiiy and artistically decorated with Bolshevism and every Castilla de Vieja. Santo Domingo de ment of many - • 1, tities who are lined tholics had absolute confidence in the Ia Clazada; in Galicia. Feijoo the with bunting and 1P in the rank.. ,,f the -Government. Papal and Irish flags, fnture, and that now, as in the past, Benedictine savant—and so, through.! The Radical Part:, which is certainly with scrolls proclaiming welcome to its were ready and willing to give aot Catholic, also has rejected it, and distinguished visitors, the old town of' they their poverty for the honour of out Spain. sotit of great.the of one• witnessed Mullingar "On the very day on which the fiat f lecause of it this party produced the God and the beauty of His dwelling- of the Government orders the Religious f otstruction which overthrew the Gov- est events in its history when the founplace amongst them. Cathedal for to cease teaching. we will assemble ernment and endangered the. very Re- dation-stone of the new He congratulated the people of Mul- multitudes of Catholics, to celebrate re'Abs. President Alcala-Zamora was the Diocese of Meath was laid lingar on their new cathedral, already t he memory of the great men of these ' forced to sign it by unheard-of threats, cently. so well advanced. Religious Orders who have contributIreAll Even to the extent of a rumour thenThe Cardinal Primate of Asking prayers for the canonisation ed so much to the grandeur of our lated that he was going to resign from land performed the ceremony, ArchCarthe Plunkett, of Blessed olives history. i ce. This law is offensive in every bishop Glennon, of St. Louis, USA.. Catholic Deputies' Avowal. ray to the Church and to Catholics, preached, and the Bishop of Ardagh dinal said:—and Meath have been "Armagh their part, the Catholic DepuOn lnd it wrongs t-e:peciaily the Religious and Clonmacnois sang Pontifical High closely linked through joy and sorrow ties have been no less explicit. In CurArchbishop Orders which have such significance in Mass. Present were almost since the day when the first the political realm they have held a ,ur national •history. Bishops ley, of Baltimore, U.S.A., the Archbishop of Armagh kindled the public act to declare of Meath. Kilmore. Clogher, Dromore. Paschal Fire on Meath's famous Hill reunion and a ellallmign Against Laic Schools. their opposition to the new Govern"For this reason we are going to Derry, and Down and Conner. as well Ireof of Slane, and the undying fire The Minister of .Gobernacion ment. .:ndertake a great campaign through. s s a vast gathering of priests and laity on your still more famous at the last moment prevented the t the Country already indignant at Som all parts of the country. Amongst land's faith And the links became broadcasting by radio of the speeches e stupidity and outrages of the So- - Ile laity were members of the Dail, Hill of Tara. still closer and stronger when Meath when some two thousand people had as:ialists—first of all to create schools the ic Meath County Council. and gave to Armagh and Ireland our marand colleges in opposition to the laic `. lullingar Town Council. Civic Guards tyr Primate, Blessed Oliver Plunkett." sembled at the headquarters of "Accion Popular," and five thousand others in entre of the State. The Religious are ormed a guard of honour for the Carthe Monumental Cinema to hear the Too Exuberant Nationalism. hiclden to teach collectively, since inzsl on his arrival in the town, and IS restriction is imposed upon them a huge procession escorted him from Archbishop Glennon, in his sermon. address delivered by Gil Robles. 'Our party " said this Catholic a warning against the danger of uttered the sectarianism and injustice of the railway station to the residence leader, "has its being in that we are of excessive nationalism. law: but they will he secularised, if Dr. Mulvanv Bishop of Meath. To Ireland, he said, as to all- nations Catholics and represent the Catholic ';eeessarY, and continue teaching as in• Cardinal MacRore was presented had suddenly achieved freedom, masses of the country. . Accion Poputhat riduals secuthe And we rely upon with three addresses of welcome, one ar clergy. came an exuberant spirit of na- lar' solemnly ratifies in all its parts the there so that there will be no lack from the clergy of Meath. and the Quickly that spirit might deslaration of the Bishops and the Entionalism. The others from the Westmeath County teachers. '•'f Properly The Church :athers of equipped unreasoning, tyran- cyclical of the Pope. perfervid, become engaged in esincluding cordial adherence, our holds : .tablishing families areMutualities" or Council and Mullingar Town Commis- nical. and evoked was Militarism "School sioners. military forces called into being to en- the adherence of our ;ritelligence. And 1. al societies with sufficient resources we have a special interest in making His Eminence, replying, recalled that force its demands. ownership of existing school buildjust two months ago he had the great In the sixteenth century t was this this known now ,when the greatest of 1gs and the construction of others Holy honour of representing Our nation inic nit ies of the modern political 'Above all, the schools of religion, Father at, the laving of the foundation- spirit of nationalism that tore of the world has been consummated, when a unity the from nation a fter already established in many dioceses, stone of another Cathedral in honour Church. it was to-day the chief ism law has been imposel upon us which vtll be increased. Now as never be. Ore, We are going to teach to the peo- of Christ the King—the immense new pediment, to world peace. Patriotism we do not respect in any sense." These words indicate r•learly the was a virtue, but the glamour of nation?le the truths of Christianity and the Cathedral of Liverpool. It was an )ctrines of the-Catholic Church. As honour he deeply appreciated, all the alism soon destroyed the sanity of pa. stand of Catholics with respect to the Ireland, always emotional. new step in Spanish politics. Cathomatter of fact, in this furious com- more because it was an honour not triotism. only to Ireland. to but h;rn to the extravagant ap lic Action and Popular Action are at readily yielded etition with the 'Church into which one in resisting, and organising the rehe State enters in .the field of eduIn these days of such economic de- peals of ultra-nationalism, Feeling now a new energ! , she was sistance, to prevent this national aposa.tiou, which is a part of the divine pression, it was a very significant thing a group of insensate men 71.Inion of the Church, popular educa- to see two new Catholic cathedrals be- uncertain how to expend it. The na- tasy which upon the Spanish nato impose seek and kings their with about, round tions two within months. gun in these islands 1°n Will profit enormously. men who, in the of group tion—a war-imtheir and wars their National Homage for rteligious. dictators, It signified that the old Church of having ceased to Robles, Gil words of and their depressions treaties, s ec•C:ir and ,:iilar clergy will nineteen hundred years was still young posed defaults, were not high exemplars nor be Catholics, now cease to be Spanbefore seen in —"Young with the youth of her early e n, • ., 11 iards. it meant that in spite of sound advisers. s ls1 Catl.lolics will take rare of prime." Iliy Rev.
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•-or would it be better to say, are already tal,ing care of —the fundamenprol 4cm which the new law imupon them, and will not permit so.aptical and unrsoral education o f the State to perTnnate the souls of elailtiren. They will in no way , • , ii-,ent to it. And these are not just ,s1-: , ,r proposals. Neither in Oetor nor .in December shall `• pupil pass from Catholic schools into schools of the State. e One of the activities in which Catholic Action is now engaged on a national scale is having a very great effect upon the 'Spanis'a people. As is well known, there is not a region or
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