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High Compression. The Rev. Robert C. Hartnett, S.J., editor of the Jesuit weekly America, accused the Times of ballooning some casual anti-Joe McCarthy remarks he had made into headlines, at the expense of a "balanced report" of his considered views on how academic freedom and civil liberties are being affected by the congressional investigations...
...minute talk on academic freedom at New York University, said Father Hartnett, "I never so much as alluded to Senator McCarthy ... At the end of the talk, someone asked what I thought of [him]. After explaining that he was not investigating subversives in education, I offhandedly . . . expressed my opinion of the Senator's antiCommunism. Much to my surprise, the Times . . . ran a short report of my talk headed MCCARTHY ATTACKED BY CATHOLIC EDITOR. The story highly compressed my answer to a question. It reduced to a single sentence . . . the substance of what I had to say. It so happens...
...ROSE N. HARTNETT Maiden, Mass...
...Hartnett replied that Catholic parochial schools were not so alien from the public schools as Blanshard would have people believe. Protestant Professor Edward S. Corwin of Princeton, he said, had declared that the parochial schools are an "indispensable part" of the U.S. educational system and that "all schools, public or parochial, should be treated alike...
Such control of Catholic judgment on the Church, as well as on "foreign affairs, social hygiene, public education and modern science," rejoined Jesuit Hartnett, is not a matter of Catholic political power but of the Catholic faith which Blanshard claims to respect. "It just so happens to be the personal belief of every Catholic that Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, empowered the hierarchy to apply moral judgments to all areas of human conduct, social as well as private. One of the rude errors of this whole thing is the impression that the bishops are herding the people around. People...