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Show Catholic Prelate Sees Dan-;' Dan-;' ger in Modern Philo- j sophical Teachings. . ST. LOriS, Juno 24. The secular i'fvstem of education in the I'niteil 'States was denounced as "patterning er tlie German idea," and ns "materialistic," "ma-terialistic," by speakers at the Catlio-)io Catlio-)io Educational association, in annual 'convention here today. : The liight Kev. Thomas J. Shahan, president of the Catholic university, at Washington, and president of the association, asso-ciation, declared present day education resulted from modern materialistic philosophy, and that such philosophical svstenis ' had brought ' Europe into ruin and misery from which, it would jiot recover for centuries." "It is the Christian moral example," exam-ple," he vociferated, "the Catholic education ed-ucation and spirituality that must be relied upon to counteract the effects of this philosophy." ' In a paper written by Cardinal Wil-,':am Wil-,':am 0 'Council, it was declared state monopoly of education had made Prussia Prus-sia what it is today, and attacked the constitutionality of a government controlled con-trolled system of education on the ground that religious freedom was safeguarded to citizens of the United States. : "In the matter of education, particularly, par-ticularly, we are patterning after the German idea, declared the cardinal, "a program which is being marked out by American educators who have received re-ceived their training in German universities. uni-versities. "Under our constitution religious freedom is guaranteed, all citizens, and the government should not interfere in matters pertaining to religious education." edu-cation." Archbishop John J. Glennon of St. Louis, emphasized that religious education edu-cation was the best method of building build-ing up a manhood to serve the country in the future, whether in peace or war, nnrt surveved the part Catholics played in the war. "He is not a patriot," Archbishop Glennon said, "who would declare that every school that teaches faith in Christ must be faithless to America; or that the one who denies the supremacy su-premacy or completeness of purely secular sec-ular training is an enemy of his "country. "coun-try. ' ' Telegrams of congratulations on their work during the last year were sent to Pope Benedict, Cardinals Gibbons Gib-bons and O 'Council, Archbishop Hanua of San Francisco, and Bishop O 'Con-nell, 'Con-nell, of Richmond, Va. |