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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. It seems that the only thing new under the sun is the methods of distorting the truth. Everyone makes mistakes — the most successful make them at someone else’s expense. BRQOKWOOD SERVICE STATION 1820 Peachtree Road, N. W, TR. 6-2172 Atlanta, Ga. HAAS & DODD Fire, Casualty, and Life Insurance — Accident and Health — Fidelity Bonds — FHA Loans — Real Estate “SERVICE BEYOND THE CONTRACT” Haas-Howell Bldg., Cor. Forsyth and Poplar — Atlanta, Ga. JA. 2-3111 BEST WISHES GILBERT WRITE-AWAY LETTER SERVICE Georgia Savings Bank Bldg. JA. 2-3434 Atlanta, Ga. RUFF REALTY COMPANY REALTORS SPECIALIZING IN NORTHSIDE HOMES FROM DECATUR TO FAR N. W. 3131 Maple Dr., N. E. CE, 7-S358 Decatur, Ga, 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. 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