Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present the church's canon law takes away from American Catholic parents the right to choose public schools for their children and gives the choice to Bishops appointed by Rome. The American Catholic people have no represented assembly which they can use to force the termination of this separatist policy in education...
...Catholicism in the U.S., Father Jean Danielou, S.J., contends that American Catholics are too separatist. "They tend to constitute a self-sufficing community, and as a result, to live apart within the nation . . . American Catholic universities are institutions of great value . . . But apart from this, it is essential that Catholicism should also be represented in non-Catholic universities. And this, which appears to be normal in France, appears to be revolutionary in the U.S.A...