The Catholic Spectator, Selector and Monitor, Or, Catholicon [Formerly Catholicon]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815. Excerpt: ... 158 St. Gilks's Catholic Schools! Flan and Regulation ofthe Catholic Schools, pp. 16, 1814. First Annual Report of the Irish Catholic Schools at St. Giles's in the Fields, zilith an Appendix, the Regulations, and list of Subscribers, pp. 40, 1815. Printed Resolutions and Address, dated February 29, 1816, of t lie Irish Catholic Schools, in Consequence of the Resolutions and Address of the Committee of St. Patrick's Charity Schools of 26th Jan. 1816. The three publications above enumerated recount the state of progress of one grand concern, on which it behoves the Catholic public to bestow a fixed but dispassionate attention. The first developes the plan and regulations as agreed to " At a General Meeting of the Subscribers and Friends, held at Freemason's Tavern on the 29th April, 1814," as well as the history of its origin and foundation. Here Mr. Finigan figures as the main wheel which gives motion and celerity to the Anti-Catholic machine. "The projector of the plan met Mr. Finigan, who had relinquished the idea he had formerly cherished, of imparting useful knowledge to the poor children of Irish Roman Catholics resident in the metropolis; who were endeared to him by national ties and by religious principles." Mr. F'inigan's endearment to national ties and religious principles induced him "cordially to approve" the plan proposed by the projector to him, of " using no book in the schools," of which he was to become the master, "for reading, but the holy scriptures, without note or comment, except a spelling book, leaving the children to attend what place of worship their parents might prefer." Reader, you here see that a school is professedly opened for the "poor children of the Irish Roman Catholics;" yet you see also that this schoolmaster, who is "e...

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