Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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oppressed and down-trodden Italy favored, as is America,
with public schools, weshould behold less degradation,
idleness, vice and misery in our midst."
" But, suppose thereby, heresy should be introduced,
and millions led away from the true faith i"
"A religion that can't stand the light, ought to
fall; let such a system be turned out of doors and
given to the winds I" .
"Yes, I've long known you'd like to have Catholicity
given to the winds."
"If education, as you seem to think, makes heretics,
why do the Hierarchy put forth strenuous efforts to
multiply institutions of learning beyond the Atlantic j"
"Why, it has been found impossible to gain anything
like a permanent foothold in that country, without
establishing schools; the Catholic clergy could
wield no influence among Americans, without showing
themselves favorable to education. There they
have schools connected with their nunneries; and a
great many Protestants are induced to send their children
to the nunneries to. be educated; that affords an
opportunity of teaching them the Catholic religion;
and it is said, a great many are won over to the faith
in that way; beside, their schools furnish employment
for many of the nuns, and are sources of considerable
income to the Church."
" Then you own, 'tis not for the sake of enlightening,
unfolding and improving the mind, that the Catholic
church is establishing schools in America- but the
profit, Credit and influence thus secured i"