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James M. O'Neill, chairman of the Department of Speech at Brooklyn College, has attempted to refute Paul Blanshard's "American Freedom and Catholic Power...
...succeeded. A good writer, O'Neill fails mainly because he picks on some of Blanshard's facts and tries to rip them asunder; but he has not refuted the thesis of Blanshard's book: that certain Catholic principals endanger democracy...
...Catholicism and American Freedom" also attempts to answer Blanshard by charging repeatedly that he does not document certain particular sentences. For example, O'Neill states: "Discussing the Catholic school system, Mr. Blanshard reports, with no evidence of documentation, 'very few non-Catholics know anything about it and Catholic laymen get their over-all picture from the self-serving declarations of their hierarchy.'" But O'Neill seems to overlook the fact that the idea behind the sentence is quite carefully documented at a more logical place elsewhere in the volume...
Archbishop Cushing last night refused to comment on Blanshard's statements...
Continuing, Blanshard said: "At present the church's canon law takes away from American Catholic parents the right to choose public schools for their children and gives the choice to Bishops appointed by Rome. The American Catholic people have no represented assembly which they can use to force the termination of this separatist policy in education...