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...parochial schools called The Education of Catholic Americans (Aldine; $8.95). Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the four-year study was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and edited by two of its sociologists: the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, and Peter H. Rossi, a self-styled "devout agnostic...
...survey adds up to a damaging indictment of church-sponsored education. Commonweal's Associate Editor Daniel Callahan complains that "a school system which cannot manage to get over to students an essential part of what Christ called 'the greatest commandment' deserves hardly any Christian respect." Sociologist Greeley answers that it is naive to expect that any system of education could automatically produce model Christians. At best, he says, church schools can merely develop the spirit of faith that must be first instilled in the home...
...Better Answers. Whether or not Catholic education is effective, Greeley and Rossi conclude that it is not about to disappear. For one thing, the church could ill afford to abandon a multibillion-dollar investment. For another, the opinion survey showed that most Catholics, regardless of their educational background, approved of parochial schools and preferred that their own children attend them. Finally, the survey editors believe that the church in the U.S. has not found a better way to teach children what it means to be a Catholic...
...while it did Frederic Edwin Church caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent flair for embodying the nation's grand notion of "manifest destiny" made his paintings public events. On one day alone in 1857, Horace Greeley, George Bancroft, George Ripley, Henry Ward Beecher and Charles A. Dana were among the crowds that filed past Church's Niagara. Two years later, the throngs that flocked to his studio to see The Heart of the Andes were so dense that policemen were required to keep pedestrian traffic...
...cannot all live in cities," cautioned Horace Greeley a century ago, "yet nearly all seem determined to do so." His own classic answer to the problem, "Go West, young man," was no lasting remedy-unless one can ignore Los Angeles. Though Editor Greeley disapproved of the country's rapid urbanization, he nonetheless divined accurately one of the American's most deep-rooted traits: his hankering for city lights...