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While the bus slowly jolted through White Plains, the boys sang and roughhoused like any schoolbound boys that morning all over the U.S. But when the driver stopped before a gleaming, modernistic school building, they got off and went in as quietly as though they were entering church. In a sense, they were. It was the new $4,200,000 Archbishop Stepinac High School, the nation's best equipped Roman Catholic diocesan school...
Avoiding Graveyards. U.S. Catholics spend $182,250,000 a year to run their church schools. This is America's largest single religious expenditure-and more than any U.S. Protestant denomination spends for all purposes. The total 1947 expenditure of the Methodist Church was only $165,000,000; the second highest in Protestantism, $132,000,000, was raised by the Southern Baptist. Over 9% of the total U.S. scholastic enrollment is in Catholic schools; the figure for elementary schools is nearly...
Clashing Concepts.The ardent identification of Roman Catholicism with Americanism has roused non-Catholics to be equally ardent in recalling the traditional American doctrine of separation of church & state...
Either ... Or. The real difference between Stepinac and its rival public high schools, and the real reason Westchester boys commute to it (whether the impetus comes from themselves, their families or their parish priests), is religion. Because of the separation of church & state in the U.S., no pupil can now have any religious instruction, even a Bible reading, on public-school premises.* At Stepinac every boy, whatever his course, has a 45-minute class in religion every day of his four high-school years. He attends regular services in the school chapel and auditorium. Just before Easter each year...
...overwhelming majority of Stepinac alumni will, of course, remain laymen. But through their adolescent years they will have had the most thorough religious instruction their thoroughgoing church can provide. In a ninth-grade religion class last week, Father Joseph Sum reminded his young hearers: "At the end of the world our bodies will be reunited with our souls and either enjoy the beatific vision of Heaven or suffer the tortures of Hell." He led a careful discussion on the moral issues of the purpose of life...