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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, July 22, 1971
Catholic School Quotables
By NC News Service
Catholic schools have been
the subject of much
discussion recently --
particularly from a legislative
point of view. Following are
some of the diversified
viewpoints which have been
expressed:
-“Finally, nothing we have
said can be construed to
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disparage the role of
church-related elementary
and secondary schools in our
national life. Their
contribution has been and is
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benefits of these schools,
however, are not the issue
before us in these cases. The
sole question is whether state
aid to these schools can be
squared with the dictates of
the (First Amendment)
Religion Clauses.” Chief
Justice Warren E. Burger,
delivering the U.S. Supreme
Court decision which struck
down a Pennsylvania
“purchase of services” law
and a Rhode Island teacher
salary supplement benefiting
nonpublic schools.
-“First, we stand as fully
committed to private
education as ever before, and
we remain staunchly
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committed to keeping the
doors of our schools open -
especailly to the
underprivileged.. .Secondly,
we sincerely hope that there
will be an immediate
examination by our
legislators of possible
alternatives so that an
enactment may be written
which meets the tests laid
down by the Supreme
Court.” Cardinal John Krol
of Philadelphia commenting
on the Supreme Court school
aid decisions.
-“It is evident that what
the court has now done is not
intended to shut all doors to
assistance to nonpublic
education but only to spell
out more clearly which
particular forms of aid are
c o nstitutionally permissible
and which are not.” Bishop
Joseph L. Bernardin, U.S.
Catholic Conference general
secretary, commenting on the
high court action.
-“I feel confident that
those who have supported
private schools in the past
will continue to find some
way to preserve these schools
and thus keep alive that
distinctive feature of
American education which is
characterized by the private
school. The value of such
diversity has been recognized
by many in thee public and
private sectors, including
President Nixon.” Father C.
Albert Koob, National
Catholic Education
Association president on the
Supreme Court decisions.
-“The nonpublic schools
provide a diversity which our
educational system would
otherwise lack. They also give
a spur of competition to the
public schools - through
which educational
innovations come, both
systems benefit, and progress
results .. .There is another
equally important
consideration: these
schools . . .often add a
dimension of spiritual value
giving children a moral code
by which to live. This
government cannot be
indifferent to the potential
collapse of such schools.”
President Richard Nixon in
his annual education reform
message to Congress, March
3,1970.
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DRTVE-IN CONFESSIONAL: Father John Campion, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in
Quarryville, Pa. says Mass on Saturday evenings during the summer at the Muddy Run Camp
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by Charles Blahusch, The Catholic Witness, Harrisburg, Pa.)
GREAT BRITAIN
Mounting Pressure To
Retain Mass In Latin
By John A. Greaves
LONDON (NC)-Pressure is
mounting in Britain to
preserve at least for special
occasions the traditional or
Tridentine rite of the Latin
Mass, which appears
threatened with extinction in
the next year.
A large section of the
Catholic community,
progressive as well as
conservative, favors retention
of the Tridentine Mass~the
Mass in Latin whose form was
set up by the Council of
Trent (1545-63).
About 30 British and
international leaders of
cu ltural and public
life-including two Anglican
bishops, several well-known
agnostices, as well as
Catholics-made a plea to the
Vatican recently to save the
old Mass.
Their letter, published in
the Times of London, bases
its case on the cultural loss
they feel would ensue if the
old rite were to disappear
completely.
“We are not at the moment
considering the religious or
spiritual experience of
millions of individuals,” they
said. “The rite in question, in
its magnificent Latin text, has
also inspired a host of
priceless achievements in the
arts, not only mystical works
but works by poets,
philosophers, musicians,
architects, painters and
sculptors in all countries and
epochs. Thus it belongs to
universal culture as well as to
churchmen and formal
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Signers include Cecil
Day-Lewis, the poet
Laureate; Joseph Grimond,
former leader of the Liberal
party; Yehudi Menuhin, the
violinist; Vladimir
Ashkenazy, the Russian
pianist; Agatha Christie,
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bishops of Exeter and Ripon.
Prominent Catholic signers
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Rev. Joseph Dean of the
Glenmary Fathers was ap-i
pointed pastor of Holy
Redeemer Church in McRae
two weeks ago. Father Dean
has served as pastor in North
Carolina, Mississippi, and
Kentucky. He was ordained
at Mundelein, Illinois,
attended Loyola and
Duquesne Universities, and
recently received a Master’s
Degree in Counseling from
Mississippi State. He taught at
the Glenmary Seminary and
served as director of the
Glenmary pastoral year for
newly ordained priests.
Father Dean founded two
mission hospitals and a home
nursing service in the parishes
where he served. He and
Father Bill Smith, whom he
succeeds at McRae, were
classmates in the seminary
together.
During the past several
years Father Dean has been
active in the Self-help
Commission of the Council of
Southern Mountains, in
Retarded Children
Associations, and in
ecumenical work with local
ministerial groups.
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“Today, as in time gone
by, educated people are in
the vanguard where
recognition of the value of
tradition is concerned and are
the first to raise the alarm
when it is threatened,” they
asserted.
“If some senseless decree
were to order the total of
partial destruction of basilicas
or cathedrals then obviously
it would be the educated,
whatever their personal
beliefs, who would rise up in
horror to oppose such a
possibility.
“Now the fact is that
basilicas and cathedrals were
built so as to celebrate a rite
which until a few months ago
constituted a living tradition.
We are referring to the
Roman Catholic Mass. Yet
according to the latest
information available in
Rome there is a plan to
obliterate that Mass by the
end of the current year.”
The letter argues that in a
materialistic and technocratic
civilization it seems
particularly inhuman to
deprive man of word forms,
“in one of their most
grandiose manifestations.”
The letter said that the
appeal is entirely ecumenical
and nonpolitical, and that the
signers “have been drawn
from every branch of modern
culture in Europe and
elsewhere.” It said they wish
“to call to the attention of
the Holy See the appalling
responsibility it would incur
in the history of the human
spirit were it to refuse to
allow the traditional Mass to
survive, even though this
survival took place side by
side with other liturgical
forms.”
The appeal, however, drew
a later letter from Downside
abbey asking what Mass the
appeal refers to. The
Tridentine Mass, the writer,
Benedictine Father Benet
Innes, said, has in fact already
disappeared to all intents and
purposes and in any case was
itself a reformed Mass-” and
not a very good one”-dating
from 1570.
A Jesuit writing from
Oxford University also
claimed that the appeal was a
misapprehension. He said he
could take the signers to a
sung Mass in the new rite that
they would hardly to able to
distinguish from the old.
Additional letters form
distinguished writers have
since been appearing in the
Times arguing both for the
retention of the Tridentine
Mass and the appeal to the
Vatican-and against.
A strong complaint nere is
that the International
Committee for English in the
Liturgy (ICEL), while seeking
a vernacular translation
satisfactory to the whole
English-speaking world, is
American-dominated and
theologically too radical for
British tastes.
The English bishops have
accepted for the time being
ICIL’s English texts, except
for the requiem Mass. They
are now working on a version
of their own.
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Clarification—
(Continued from page 1)
groups.
-The court had misread
history in interpreting the
Constitution’s ban on public
aid for the “establishment”
of a religion.
The petition also asks the
court to clarify whether the
decision applied only to the
seven nonpublic schools or if
it “constituted a Final
nullification and termination
of the Pennsylvania statute,
with respect to all nonpublic
schools, and in all
circumstances.”
The court’s entanglement
test, according to the
petition, goes beyond prior
decisions upholding
legislation that was
“religiously neutral” and that
had a secular purpose that
neither advanced nor
inhibited religion.
The attorneys argued that
t he entanglement concept
“creates a special exception
to the neutrality test...which
is itself nonneutral.”
They also took exception
to that part of the court’s
ruling stating that “a broader
base of entanglement of yet a
different character is
presented by the divisive
political potential of these
state programs.”
“It can be assumed,” the
court added, “that state
assistance will entail
considerable political
activity” and “political
division along religious lines
was one of the principal evils
against which the first
amendment was designed to
protect.”
The attorneys said that
entanglement doctrine was
“not a standard because its
application can only depend
on completely subjective
factors.”
They ask:
-Wherein does the state
supervision related to books
and instructional materials
under the Pennsylvania law
differ qualitatively from the
supervision related to similar
and books provided in the
New York textbook case
previously upheld by the
court?
--Wherein does the
supervision of government
supplied material under the
Pennsylvania law differ from
that sanctioned by the court
for sectarian colleges?
--Wherein does the
character of the teacher who
serves in a church-related
school differ from that of a
teacher who serves in a public
school?
The petition also notes
that the court misread history
when it said: “We have no
long history of state aid to
church-related institutions,
comparable to 200 years of
taxation for churches.”
The attorneys argued that
nonpublic school is rooted
deeply in U.S. history, and
that an 1838 Pennsylvania
law specifically provided for
such assistance.
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