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Died. Monsignor Frederick Hochwalt, 57, executive secretary of the National Catholic Educational Association, an eloquent spokesman for the church's position that parochial schools should share in aid to education, a view he helped persuade Congress to incorporate...
Catholics differed widely. Los Angeles' Cardinal Mclntyre chided Ribicoff for bypassing equal aid to parochial schools. But the church's chief Washington education lobbyist, Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, called Ribicoff's idea "quite intriguing." said that "a fairly large segment" of Catholic parents "are interested in something along these lines...
Taking up this new position, Msgr. Frederick G. Hochwalt, education director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, argued that the Administration's recent equating of loans and grants to parochial schools as unconstitutional gave Catholics a reason to claim both as-in their view-equally constitutional. He agreed the new stand probably would block passage of the bill for federal aid to public schools. "But it doesn't bother me in the least," said Hochwalt. "The present educational structure is not a sacred cow and could stand a change...
...federal aid. says Msgr. Frederick G. 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...
...about the fate of the bill, the Kennedy forces tried cautiously to find some middle course. At the House hearing, New Jersey Democrat Frank Thompson, a Catholic in favor of Kennedy's stand, tried to take some of the heat off pro-Kennedy fellow Catholics by asking Monsignor Hochwalt how he thought Catholic Congressmen should vote on a bill that lacked parochial school loan amendments. The answer: "They must vote according to their consciences. They will have a moral judgment to make as to what would be of greater national value." At his weekly press conference, the President stuck...