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REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.
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Pope * s Brief on Education . [ The following is a literal translation of a Brief lately received from the Holy See by the Roman Catholic Prelates of England and Ireland : —The original is in Latin of the customary species , being something between dog-Latin and law-Latin . ]
Right Illustrious and Right Reverend Sir , —That forewarning speech of Jesus Christ , our Lord , long since uttered by him , when employing the parable of the husbandman , " who had sown the good seed in his field ; but his enemy , while
mankind were asleep , came , and made an after-sowing of tares in the midst of the wheat corn , " ( Matt . xiii . 24 , ) appears to be realizing in our days , particularly in Ireland , to the grievous loss and wrong of the Catholic weal .
For information has reached this sacred congregation , that schools of a Bible Society have been set up in almost every part of Ireland ; upholden with the resources and by the patronage of the higher Anti-Catholic gentry ; and that , in those schools , under the artificial complexion of charity , the untutored youth
ot either sex , especially those of the peasantry , and of the indigent class , allured by the cajolement , nay , by affectionate petty presents from the teachers , come to be tainted with the deadly poison of perverse doctrines . It is further stated , that the teachers in those schools , lately
described , are Methodists , who make use of Bibles rendered into English by that Bible Society , and pregnant with errors ; those teaching having in view the sole object of seducing the youthful population , and eradicating from their hearts and affections the truths of the orthodox
faith . Considering these things to be certain , your Lordship is already aware , that great solicitude , application and vigilance , are to be demanded of the shepherds , in sedulously guarding their nocks from the
ambuscade of wolves , who come in sheep s clothing . If the shepherds will slumber during the while , quickly will the inimical man steal in , and sow his noxious seed ; quickly will the aftergrowth of tares shew itself , and overlay the wheat corn .
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Wherefore , it is indispensably requisite to make every possible effort , in order to recal the useful sort from the pernicious schools ; and to admonish the parents , that they are not , by any means , to suffer their offspring to be led into error , however , for avoiding the snares of the adversaries , nothing appears more fitting
than the setting up of Catholic schools , wherein to educate the poor and the peasantry , in a course of moral instruction and reputable learning . Perhaps it may be said , that a fund cannot be provided . As to this point , you will have
naturally gained a lesson from those very seceders from the right faith : for , as we are told , they ask individually , from the people at large , a penny subscription by the week , for the support of those mentioned schools . What should hinder the Catholics from doing likewise ?
Wherefore we exhort , and , by the tender sympathies of Jesus Christ , our Lord , we conjure you , nay Lord , to guard with diligence your nock , in that best manner which your discretion may suggest , from such persons as insidiously are introducing themselves into the sheepfold of Christ , with the design of carrying away
from him the incautious sheep ; and to exert yourself most carefully , ( recollecting the prophecy of Peter , the Apostle , who delivered of old in these words , " and amongst you shall there be lying teachers , who shall bring in sects of perdition , " ) to prevent the corrupting by those men of the Catholic youth . This object I hope
you will easily attain by instituting withm your diocese Catholic schools . And , in the well-founded hope that in this most important matter yourljordship will exert all your force and resoluteness to prevent the sound wheat from being choked by the tares , I beg of the Holy Divine Majesty to be your protector and safeguard for very many years . Your Lordship ' s , in all brotherly affection ,
JULTUS MARIA CARDINAL DEDLA SOMAGL 1 A , Proprefect , C . M . PEDICINI , Secretary . From the Palace of the Propaganda Fide . Rome , 14 M August , 1820 .
Register Of Ecclesiastical Documents.
REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/55/
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