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...MsGR.) MARIO RIZZI...
Going to School. The U.S. bishops' school for reporters is evidence of mild ecclesiastical protest against the secrecy that is supposed to cloak the conference. The council did set up a press office of sorts. But Msgr. Fausto Vaillanc, a Vatican clerk impressed as chief press officer, confines himself to distributing the official one-page bulletins in seven languages. To the 300-odd newsmen still in Rome, the handouts are often worse than useless. Designed to report on each day's council conference after its close, the bulletins are sometimes written 24 hours in advance, and they...
Religious Illiteracy. For many Catholic parents, the hard choice is between ill-equipped, overcrowded parochial schools and public schools that threaten Catholic children with what Pittsburgh's diocesan school superintendent, the Very Rev. Msgr. John B. McDowell, calls "religious illiteracy." McDowell also warns that non-Catholics in many areas face an equal problem if Catholics are forced to cut back their own schools and thousands of youngsters flood the public schools...
...cheaper parochial schools (no labs, gyms, cafeterias) handling twice as many "value-oriented" students via half-day sessions. As Catholics see it, a controlled Catholic influx would also make public schools more representative of the community. If other churches also built shared-time schools, suggests the Very Rev. Msgr. Arthur T. Geoghegan, diocesan school superintendent in Providence, R.I., "the drift of secularism might be checked...
...should come and in what capacity was left largely to Augustin Cardinal Bea (TIME, July 6), the wise old Jesuit who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. To avoid the diplomatic fiasco that marred the first Vatican Council,*Bea and his assistant, Dutch Msgr. Willebrands, spent long hours conferring with Protestant and Orthodox churchmen, made it clear that invitations would go only to those who wanted to come...