Word: mcmanus
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...campaign editorially against the clerics' intervention. While San Juan's Spanish dailies, El Mundo (circ. 58,586) and El Impartial (51,720) dropped out after protesting the pastoral letter, the Star persisted boldly with 20 editorials that drew a stinging answer from the church. James Edward McManus, Bishop of Ponce and leader of the church attack on Muñoz Marin, charged Dorvillier with being "emotionally unbalanced," in a letter which Dorvillier published in full, without comment...
...same goes for other big archdioceses, such as Chicago, where Msgr. William E. McManus sees "no need for federal aid to Chicago, public or parochial," though he adds that "if it comes, we ought to get the crumb." McManus' schools handle 34% of all Chicago schoolchildren, owe more than $40 million. They stay afloat by central-bank deals and an average annual tuition charge of $25 in grade schools and $225 in high schools. "Come hell or high water," says Msgr. McManus, "we're going to have 125 new classrooms next fall, no matter what they...
...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 ways, the red tape involved makes a Government loan less desirable than prime-rate borrowing...
...moved to write expressing my horror, indignation and amazement as a Catholic at the action taken by Bishops Davis and McManus...
Leaving no doubt as to where Bishop McManus stood, his chancellor at Ponce. Msgr. Victor M. Nazario, added that anyone who supported Muñoz Popular Democratic Party "not only commits a mortal sin but can also be excommunicated." Taking its cue, Puerto Rico's new Catholic Action Party, openly sponsored by Davis and McManus, took full-page daily ads in the newspapers to remind voters that "Catholics cannot vote for the Popular Party." Spot radio commercials proclaimed that "the Masons, the Protestants and the Communists obey Luis Muñoz Marin. Catholics obey their bishops...