Word: archdiocesan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that they are directly under the jurisdiction of the Vatican, and last month sent an open letter to parents of parochial-school children declaring that "after 82 years in Los Angeles, we are being asked to stop teaching." The Los Angeles chancery responded with a frontpage editorial in the archdiocesan weekly, The Tidings, insisting that the sisters, of their own accord, were threatening to leave...
...Harvard, Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Andover-Newton, Boston University, and three Catholic institutes: the Jesuit schools at Boston College and Weston College and the archdiocesan seminary of St. John...
...open letter, which was published in the archdiocesan newspaper and read by Cousins on a local televi sion station, the archbishop made clear that he does not agree "with everything that Father Groppi has said and done." He also pointed out that church teachings unequivocally state the duty of Christians "to uphold law and order, without which justice is impossible." The archbishop, who only last month warned that priests and nuns should avoid demonstrations "of doubtful sponsorship," argued that the social conditions responsible for Groppi's protest campaign would not disappear if the priest were removed from the scene...
Parochial school administrators claim, with some justice, that they lack the means to satisfy the teachers. In the past four years, for example, the operating budget of Philadelphia's archdiocesan secondary school system, which serves 59,000 pupils, has risen from $4,500,000 to $8,500,000. New building needs, plus the recent teacher settlement, which resulted in annual salary increases of from $300 to $1,000, threaten to create a $1,000,000 deficit in the next school year...
...combined marginal and inefficient schools, and some administrators are beginning to wonder whether it might ultimately be necessary to abandon parochial school education entirely. "If it comes to a point where we couldn't pay a living wage," admits Monsignor Donald Montrose, superintendent of Los Angeles' archdiocesan high schools, "maybe we shouldn't be in the education game." Noting that the expense of maintaining the U.S. church's century-old parochial school system is "becoming a real problem," St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter recently told a television interviewer: "If we were confronted with the question...