Word: sectarianism
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...extension of public grants or credits to private or parochial schools would raise grave questions of constitutionality, since it would clearly be a form of tax support of sectarian instruction. It would also constitute an invitation to sectarian groups to expand their schools beyond their ability to support them...
...Baptists, many of whom have traditionally feared the idea of a Catholic for President. "Baptists in the United States," said Executive Director Emanuel Carlson of the church's Joint Committee on Public Affairs, "are overwhelmingly in agreement with the views of the President that aid to sectarian institutions is clearly unconstitutional." Harvard's ex-President James Bryant Conant, an educators' educator, placed himself "in agreement with those who feel that public funds-tax monies -should not be spent on private or church-connected schools...
...Rigidly sectarian novels or films, particularly if they are at once both French and Catholic, are often difficult to evaluate, presenting, as they do, a narrow, dogmatic view in the guise of universality. Robert Bresson is French and Catholic (the Brattle also touts him as "a former painter, a maverick, a mystic, and a solitary"); his pre-war Diary of a Country Priest, even at its most honest, often seems wildly improbable and faintly absurd...
Despite general approbation of the program to revamp New York State's system of higher education, the idea of state aid to sectarian institutions has unfavorable comment from several quarters...
Yesterday the American Jewish Congress questioned the constitutionality of state support for sectarian colleges and universities in a letter to Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller...