| Show REFORM IN ROMAN catholicism catholic church in THE roman aggressively with Ill is operating education and rell religion olOv it announces regard to prepared for the evan itself as aa aces northwest it I 1 oil majon of the had great an ably conducted always as in chicago but it was a church enterprise organ A reform has been private in this laro lii e and on satur instituted dinst the first number of loth day the entitled the world a new issued paper altis it IN tb the e otey c organ of the in was under directly and published church feehan and supervision assistants of archbishop it is owned by the hia everything that appears in it church church will wil I 1 be responsible for A the has i been n issued to the faithful pastors pastoral in relation to this paper on sunday were made from announcements last advertising it and the all the pulpits it faithful instructed to patronize first issue contains an address tile the the clergy and catholic people of to ecclesiastical province of cb chicago icaro the but the follow voluminous it lie is very education Is to ing which per pertains worthy of peru perusal 1 edear brethren you alae we urge edu education isthan the cause of chr christian cherish to the cause of god and our country as maintaining and perfecting building in catholic ac schools bools we are doing the our beneficent work amer american ican citizens most work which like true piety I 1 is a can 4 do 10 it a is and andeer for both th for the we lite that now that useful which is to come we call 11 the attention of all pastors to the legislation baltimore council on of the last parochial schools A pastor without a school is like a general without a commissariat the spiritual life of his people will perish of inanition A A pastor who neg neglects lecta his school is guilty of the sin min of omir omission ston in a most grave matter few of the priests of illinois can be accused of lack of zeal for catholic education and the catholic people of this great state are ever rankly to respond to appeals made to them in behalf of religious schools nor are they content merely to have bavo schools but they are laboring with in intelligence inelli elli gence and earnestness to make them good and we do not hesitate to assert idour in our parochial schools the various branches of learning are taught as effectively sain as in the better class of public bublic schools we have indeed far r less e money than these but from an educational cat ional point of view one enlightened and devoted teacher is in more than costly buildings building sand and rich endowments when we consider what we have done and are doing to educate catholic children while we aso 0 o contribute to the public school p it seems inexplicable to us that the legislature of illinois should have enacted what is known as the edwards law an insidious and an unjust law which under pretext of a zeal for popular education is really a violation of our most sacred rights as men and citizens freedom of worship implies and involves involver freedom of education education if the state may diotale to us ua what kind of school we shall have hae it may make it a penal offense not to frequent the church it ma may violation Tation select elect we denounce this law as a VIO violation of our constitutional rights and hold that those who favor it are unworthy of theAo port of enlightened and fair minded voters let us use all right and honorable means to have it repealed aa 1 1 1 and lot let the de designing deigning and bigoted edget be t taught a that the west is not a field in which their labor killbear will wilt bear fruit |
