Download or read book Lay Catholics and the Education Question in Nineteenth Century New South Wales written by Gregory Haines and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century, Catholicism found itself engaged in an increasingly bitter conflict with the liberal-secularist spirit of the age. The struggle involved the attempt to resist and anti-intellectualism, totalitarianism and the subversion of religion, both within and without the Church.