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HOLY SEE SAYS CO-ED HIGH SCHOOLS
NOT APPROVED IN PRINCIPLE, BUT
NOTES EXCEPTION IN SOME CASES
(Radio, N.C.W.C. News Service)
VATICAN CITY — The Holy
See has declared that while co
educational secondary schools
are not approved in principle,
there are cases where there is no
alternative to having both boys
and girls attend the same Cath
olic high school.
In such cases, it said, every at
tempt should be made to main
tain separate boys’ and girls’
classes and activities, especially
in lessons on the Sixth Com
mandment, in certain biology
and psychology classes, and in
sports and play periods.
The Holy See’s stand was out
lined in its official publication,
Acta Apostolicae Sedis, in an
instruction drawn up by the
Sacred Congregation of the Af
fairs of Religious. The instruc
tion which outlines regulations
wherever Catholic coeducation
al secondary schools are deemed
necessary, said the whole topic
was given considerable study by
the Church. It said the Congre
gation of Religious consulted on
the subject with five of the other
11 congregations which handle
the business of the Church —
the Sacred Consistorial Congre
gation and those of the Council,
the Oriental Church, for the
Propagation of the Faith, and of
Seminaries and Universities.
Following these consultations, it
said, the whole matter was sub
mitted to His Holiness Pope Pius
XII, and the Pontiff ordered
publication of the instruction.
The instruction listed five
principles which it said form the
basis on which one can judge
coeducation honestly from both
the theoretical and practical
points of view:
1. Coeducation should general
ly not be approved.
2. Although coeducation pre
sents certain advantages, never
theless because of the possible
moral dangers it can engender,
particularly during puberty, it
should not be approved.
3. Divini illius Magistri, the
1929 encyclical of Pope Pius XI
on the Christian education of
youth, which describes coedu
cation as “fallacious and harm
ful to Christian institutions,”
must be borne in mind.
4. It cannot be denied, how
ever, that in certain cases co
education cannot be avoided. In
such instances it is to be con
sidered a lesser evil.
5. In certain countries where
youth attend public schools,
their Faith runs a serious risk.
Catholics cannot always build
two separate schools for boys
and girls in the same locality,
however, and sometimes it is
difficult to build even one.
“Therefore in practice,” says
the instruction, “youths are
compelled: a) to attend public
schools where they are educated
together without any thought for
the religious aspect of the ques
tion, and where their Faith and
morals are greatly endangered;
b) or to attend mixed Catholic
schools where there is no peril
to their faith and where the
greater part of the moral danger
can be avoided by taking cer
tain precautions.”
The instruction then says that
“if mixed Catholic schools . . .
are administered with certain
precautions, even coeducation
according to the norm of the
encyclical ‘Divini illius Magis
tri’ can be tolerated . . .”
The instruction then treats of
the regulations which must be
borne in mind and respected
wherever coeducational high
schools are necessary.
It says that wherever possible,
“coinstitution” should be adopt
ed instead of coeducation. The
instruction notes that such an
arrangement — in effect sepa
rate schools for boys and girls in
the same plant and under the
same administration, with boys
and girls sharing the same li
brary and science laboratories at
different hours — removes the
problem of coeducation and at
the same time is less expensive
than building separate schools.
If even coinstitutional schools
are impossible, the instruction
states, Ordinaries should submit
the reasons in their five-year
reports to the Holy See so that
the Holy See can keep abreast
of developments in mixed
schools.
The instruction said that Or
dinaries should see to it that
these principles and regulations
are applied according to the re
quirements of their own dio
ceses.
The instruction said it would
be inadvisable for the Holy See
to elaborate all precautions to
be observed in mixed schools,
since circumstances vary from
country to country. But it listed
the following recommendations
as a guide for various eases:
—Superiors of mixed schools
should be virtuous and of prov
en experience. Every school
should have a religious prefect
for the spiritual guidance of its
students. But only in rare cases
of necessity, and then only with
the permission of the Sacred
Congregation of Religious, can
men or women Religious be al
lowed to direct coeducational
secondary schools.
—If teaching in a mixed
school is to be entrusted to lay
men, the persons chosen must,
be absolutely reliable and must
be able to carry out the task of
educating both boys and girls
effectively.
—Group activities of both sex
es in the school room must be
supervised and regulated with
wisdom and in line with the
principles of modesty.
—Mixed boarding “Of students'
of the two sexes cannot be per
mitted.
—Mixed classes must be seg
regated, with boys on one side
of the room and girls on the
other. Separation must likewise
be enforced in cloakrooms and
other places at the hours of en
tering and leaving school.
Among the lessons for which
separate classes must be con
ducted for boys and girls are
those on the Sixth Command
ment and certain phases of bi
ology and psychology. There
must also be separate gym peri
ods, sports events and play peri
ods.
—There must always be a Re
ligious or lay person of proven
trust to supervise all mixed ac
tivities.
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new under the sun is the
methods of distorting the truth.
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Theology for
The Layman
(Continued From Page Four)
it does. It produces ideas. I re
member a dialogue one of our
speakers had with a materialist,
who asserted that his idea of
justice was the result of a purely
bodily activity, produced by
man’s material brain.
Speaker: How many inches
long is it?
Questioner: Don’t be silly,
ideas have no length.
Speaker: OK. How much does
it weight?
Questioner: What are you do
ing? Trying to make a fool of
me?
Speaker: No, I’m trying you
at your word. What color is it?
What shape?
The discussion at this point
broke down, the materialist say
ing the Catholic was talking
nonsense. It is nonsense, of
course, to speak of a thought
having length or weight or col
or or shape. But the materialist
had said that thought is ma
terial, and the speaker was sim
ply asking what material at
tributes it had. In fact, it has
none; and the materialist knew
this perfectly well. Only he had
not drawn the obvious moral. If
we are continuously producing
things which have no attributes
of matter, there must be in us
some element which is not mat
ter, to produce them. This ele
ment we call spirit.
Oddly enough, the materialist
thinks of us as superstitious
people who believe in a fantasy
called spirit, of himself as the
plain blunt man who asserts that
ideas are produced by a bodily
organ, the brain. What he is as
serting is that matter produces
offspring which have not one
single attribute in common with
it, and what could be more fan
tastic than that? We are the
plain blunt men and we should
insist on it.
Occasionally a materialist will
argue that there are changes in
the brain when we thin k,
grooves or electrical discharges
or what not. But these only ac
company the thought, they are
not the thought. When we think
of justice, for instance, we are
not thinking of grooves in the
brain, we are not even aware
of them. Justice has a meaning,
and it does not mean grooves.
THE BULLETIN, April 5, 1958—PAGE 5
QUESTION BOX
(Continued From Page Four)
the precept binding parents to
educate their sons and daughters
in the Faith. Indeed, a common
opinion among -theologians -is
that this precept, in the words
of the author, is "the most seri
ous of all," for "the eternal hap
piness or the eternal damnation
of the child depend especially
upon it." As St. John Chrvso-
iom, the great Doctor of the
Church, warned parents of his
day over 1500 years ago: "Al-
When I say mercy is kinder than
justice, I am not comparing mer
cy’s grooves with the stricter
grooves of justice.
Our ideas are not material.
They have no resemblance to
our body. Their resemblance is
to our spirit. They have no
shape, no size, no color, no
space. Neither has spirit whose
offspring they are. But no one
can call it nothing; for it pro
duces thought, and thought is
the most powerful thing in the
world — unless love is, which
spirit also produces.
though they are otherwise good
and well-disciplined in their
lives, those who neglect their
children will nevertheless un
dergo an extreme punishment
for this sin."
DESPITE THE certain gravity
of their duty to provide for the
religious education of their off
spring, parents need not fear un
necessarily, however. For this
very duty is at the same time
one of the inalienable glories of
parenthood, and a potent means
for parental self-sanctification.
"PARENTS CAN CLAIM no
higher honor while on this earth.
A soul for which Christ has
poured out His Blood and which
is infinitely more dear to God
than thousands of material
worlds is placed in their power;
henceforth they are cooperators
in the mighty task of forming
Christ therein.”
SO WONDERFUL a privilege
given to parents by God clearly
outweighs the burden involved
in parenthood, unless, of course,
that privilege is not fully under
stood. ,
FOR IT is apparent that those
who fail to realize the real priv
ilege of parenthood, will also
fail to realize its obligations.
Q: Isn't there a special indulg
ence that can be gained by
teachers who prepare children
for First Holy Communion?
A: Those who for at least a
half hour instruct children in
preparation for their First Com
munion may gain a partial in
dulgence of 500 days. (Roccolta
No. 125).
* * *
The purpose of this column is
to assist the laity to a fuller un
derstanding of their religion. It
does not seek to promote con
troversy. Questions concerning
personal marriage problems
should be referred to one’s par
ish priest.
Don’t pin your faith to first
guesses until you have given
your decision a second thought.
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