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PERTH, SATURDAY, MARCH
NO. 2,866.
23,
1935.
SIXTY-FIRST YEAR.
To Build Up a Truly Christian Nation President De Valera Defines Aim of Free State Government Speaking at a meeting held in under the auspices of tht ublin D A ssociation of the Kingship of Christ, the President of the Executive Council of the Irish 1,....rze State brought the 1-:earchlight of the Church's teaching to bear on , the programme of hi:: (c vettment item by item. de Valera said that in the they were very forState Free tunate in having settled f.:r them the principles winch must be ad hered to in any search. attr tn economic system which they might make for the common good. The vast majorit:.. of their people were convinced CI:it there was a God, and that in obeying His Law they weie making for their own nint., good and for the good of their fellows. They were fortiinate in having the vast majority cf their people satisfied that the obligations of justice were binding obligations, which it wottld be vain for them to set aside i t ey intended their own good.
with more time on its hands, is devoting deep and serious consideration to the educational system of the country with a view to its complete change and r econstruction. It would appear from the s tatements of Tresident de Valera that he favours a return to the old Catholic practice of giving a complete cultural and general education in the secondary schools and confdling the University to its proper function of imparting the highly-specialised and professional studies necessary in the different Faculties. All Catholics (writes the "Catholic Times" correspondent) will welcome these changes in our Educational system. It is their hope that. under it we shall
be able to give in our secondary schools a full and complete course of Catholic Philosophy comparable to that which is the glory of Catholic, and the envy Such a philoof lay„Fratice. sophical course, embracing every thing' that it implies, from ethics to aesthetics, on top of the very detailed religious programme now in force for over twelve years, would give to Ireland the most highly educated Catholic laity in the world.
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A tribute to the work of the Maynooth Mission to China, and the part which it has taken in reawakening missionary the 'Mr
Annunciation (MARCH 25th)
W ith these guiding principles, the Government were going forward within the limits se. s'.. 11 tor them towards a solutiot, of the problems facing them. Private Property and Social Services. The Church's teaching in regard to private property deserved respect. and it was not respected by those who proposed other systems. He was satisfied that these other systems were not in nature and accord with mans could not work. The lines on which Ireland was moving were in accord with Cat11011c teaching and Catholic Principles. Dealing with social services. Mr. de Valera stated that their Christian policy was exemplified in their care for the needy. Regiarding the grants to the unemPioYed, he said they were bountled by their resources. If the G overnment felt that the coun trY could give more, they would ask for more, and, if the taxes w ere increased for this purpose. the \ people should realise that it ,\Ias a c Christian duty and willingontribute.
. 0NIT ti,on in that' the economic sittiathe country is nghting gradually evidence itself, there is ample that the Government.
spirit, was paid by his Lordship the Bishop of Kilmore, Most Rev. Dr. Finegan, when he presided at a lecture by Rev. T. Atc.Govern, St. Columban's, Naran, in the Town Hall, Cavan. For sonic centuries alter the c onversion of lrelond, said his Lordship, Apostolic men went out from it fresh with zeal to save benighted souls, to teach pagans the saving truths ui the Christian religion. They became, as they N% ere then called, " wanderers for Christ in foreign lands." Their UliSS1Q11 was directed to Christianising the barbaric hordes from the North 4nd East, who had crushed in their march the Roman, civilisation then established, and towards healing the Wounds that defaced the then young Christian Church as a result of their devastation and destruction. Later on Ireland's turn caelie. Succeeding invasions of foreigmers set themselves to destroy orir c ivilisation and religion. Fos most of the time up to the end of the -Penal days the minds of Irish Catholics were exercised in defending their religion—so often bitterly persecuted—or maintaining it by the stealthy practice of it. The missionary spirit however, latent, and it was to the credit of the Maynooth Mission to China that it was they, for the most part, who had aroused the slumbering spirit. They had fanned the spark into a living flame, so that now numbers of Irish youths and maidens w ere being trained in colleges and convents for the mission fields in China and elsewhere. In the diocese of Kilmore they had the missionary convent ot the - Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, for the conversion of Southern N. 4-,Teria, and the convent in Virginia, under the guidance of Mgr. O'Donohoe, for the Prefecture of Kashmir and Kafiristanin Northern India.
"Fiat!'.—The flaming word
Flashed, as the brooding Bini Uttered the doom far heard
Of Death and Night.
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-Fiat "---tA cloistered womb-A sealed, untainted tomb— Wakes to the birth and bloom
Of Life and Light. —John Banister Tabb
"This is why I say that a great debt is 'due to the Maynooth Mis,ion to China," his Lordship concluded. "I ask von, and all whom my wor*irlay reach, to repay that debt be- your prayers for its success, and, as far as you can afford, by temporal help."
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