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...Maria, which is edited by Notre Dame's Holy Cross Fathers, found that most diocesan newspapers carried either the full text of the encyclical or substantial excerpts from it. But of the 53 dioceses responding to the survey, more than 70% left unanswered a question on what they were doing to place Mater et Magistra in their parochial-school curricula, and in 85% of the dioceses there were apparently no plans by bishops, priests or diocesan groups for promotion of the encyclical...
...community of cenobites at Monte Cassino in Italy. Although faithful to this spirit, U.S. monasteries have nonetheless made some striking adaptations of Benedictine life to suit American ways. More active and outgoing than their European counterparts, U.S. monasteries operate everything from mailorder cheese businesses to country missions to diocesan seminaries; each Sunday their monks say Mass in hundreds of U.S. churches. "The fundamental difference," says Father Rembert Weakland of St. Vincent's Archabbey, "is that in Europe the people go to the monastery. In the U.S. the monastery goes out to the people...
...collection plate, getting contributions that would make almost any Protestant minister envious; he charges little or no tuition. Going heavily for him are two assets: he can get nun teachers at a board, room and stipend cost of only $650-$1,250 a year, and he can often tap diocesan funds for loans for building...
...problem of parochial school management is finding nun teachers-"the only form of slave labor still permitted in this country," quips Spokane, Wash.'s Diocesan Superintendent Father Norman Triesch. Already 40,000 lay teachers form 40% of the Catholic teaching force, and in five years they will probably be in a majority. Their pay runs to three or four times what a nun teacher costs, yet is enough lower than public school pay to make them hard to recruit. These rising costs put an extra strain on the collection plate-and spur on such typically Catholic fund-raising gimmicks...
...Hochwalt, education director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference: "It's the token of being part of U.S. education, our plea for recognition." Should Catholics get aid. Hochwalt figures that it would add 15% to the Kennedy school bill. The loans, say most bishops, would go to diocesan building-loan funds, freeing cash for lay teachers. Failing aid, says Chicago's McManus, "we will just have to further systematize contributions, in the nature of assessments and taxes." In any case, says Hochwalt, "it's not so much the amount of federal money as the principle. In many...