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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal would make in the U.S. Since 1944 many English and Welsh church schools, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been receiving government financial aid, to keep them up to the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Education in its campaign to improve primary education. In Scotland since 1918, Roman Catholic schools have been sold or leased to the government, and have been operating under a teaching agreement like the new proposal of England's bishops...
...Labor government made it a sharp issue: Minister of Education George Tomlinson.flatly, rejected the bishops' proposal, and issued a memorandum to Labor Party members explaining why. Questioning the accuracy of the bishops' ?60 million estimate of the Act's cost to Catholics, the memorandum asserted: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy have always aimed at throwing the whole cost of their schools upon public funds, and have not ceased...
...likes to set off brisk little intellectual bonfires in its famed letters column, found it had a red-hot religious discussion on its hands. A 2,000-word article by a "Special Correspondent," titled Catholicism Today: Relations between Rome and the Christian World, started it. While he praised the Roman Catholic Church for resistance to Communism, the Times writer questioned whether the Catholic "machinery of ecclesiastical government ... is at the present time perfectly adjusted to Christianity's universal mission. Having no 20th Century Aquinas, the Roman Church sometimes appears intellectually ill at ease in the modern world...
...Will the Roman Church continue tacitly accepting the role assigned to it as the largest of the Christian sects and thus, while encouraging all to enter 'the one ark of salvation,' remain, defending its traditional privileges and furthering its corporate interests, engrossed in its own affairs? Or will it ... condescending to discuss ways and means with the heretics and schismatics, strive (assuming their cooperation) to bring into being a revivified Christendom...
...last week, the Times had published letters from an M.P., five bishops (four Anglican and one Catholic), several noted Roman Catholic writers (including Arnold Lunn and Robert Sencourt) and some 30 others. The Anglican Bishop of Winchester challenged Roman Catholicism to say whether it wanted cooperation and "to let it be known publicly" in what areas and how. "Any approach will meet with an immediate and welcoming response," wrote the bishop...