Word: archdiocesan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What fired up Father Carey was a recent stroll about his parish when "I had to chase two couples out of a doorway." Such encounters have shaken many other Catholic educators, but even banning steady daters from extracurricular activities seems unworkable to Chicago's archdiocesan school superintendent, Msgr. William McManus. He prefers counseling to regulating, even though "steady dating is getting to be old hat in Chicago." As for public schools, one top Denver official typically rejects rules on dating as "an invasion of rights that belong in the home." San Francisco's School Superintendent Harold Spears holds...
Launching into his eleventh annual Christmas mission to the nation's cold war outposts, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 72, regaled the troops with an account of his own frustrated military career. Back in 1918, His Eminence, then working on the archdiocesan newspaper in Boston, exuberantly bought naval chaplain's regalia only to be rejected by the Navy because he was too short. Back to the store went a determined Father Spellman to be fitted out in doughboy drab-whereupon he was foiled again by an archiepiscopal order freezing him in his Boston job. "I still...
...Catholics enough schools to handle about 85% of their children (which is 39% of all Philadelphia's children). The schools charge no tuition, but collect money according to means. Poor parishioners with many children may give nothing at all. For building loans. O'Hara set up an archdiocesan "central bank.'' Rich parishes put up the cash at going interest rates; poor ones borrow it. with archdiocesan help if necessary. The only reason that Philadelphia's Catholics want federal aid is "on principle"-and to match any advantage that public schools...