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...said he agreed with the statement issued Saturday by the Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States who implied a strong attack against Conant, as they challenged all critics who would "create a monopoly of education for a secularized public school...
...statement was released after the Bishops' annual meeting in Washington, and although they expressed a general concern over the rise of secularism in America, the brunt of their blast seemed directed at Conant's speech to the American Association of School Administrators in Boston last April...
Among the 13 perlates signing the statement was Archbishop Richard J. Cushing, who last April labelled Conant's views on private and parochial schools as Fascistic...
...that time, Conant advocated a single school system in America, serving all creeds. He declared then that "The greater the proportion of our youth who attend independent schools, the greater the threat to democratic unity...
...what evidently was meant to answer Conant's statements, the Bishops declared that "education which is truly religious is a unifying rather than a dividing force...