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Making Americans. When he dedicated Stepinac High last fortnight, Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, who is U.S. Catholicism's most influential leader, wove into his speech every overtone of the Catholic parochial system. In his first sentence he called the school "the full embodiment of the great and generous spirit that is America." Then he praised the prelate for whom he had named it, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac* of Yugoslavia, railroaded to jail by Tito in 1946, as "the victim of godless Communism and a martyr to the ideals that Americans revere and cherish. He is the symbol...
Competing Loyalties. The diocese or archdiocese often has financial responsibility for high schools, which usually charge tuition. The boys at Stepinac pay $15 a month, though Father Krug explained: "No boy is sent away because he can't pay. His parish shoulders the difference." Since Stepinac is the first archdiocesan high school in Westchester County, the boys commute from many towns-some of them 20 miles...
...Stepinac, with a capacity of 1,360 students, does offer everything, from manual training to a radio studio. When fully staffed, it will have 54 priests-more than the total number of ordained clergymen in many a U.S. Episcopal diocese. Each priest has a comfortable parlor-bedroom-&-bath of his own on the penthouse level of the school. On Sundays the priests will help out in Westchester parishes and get to know the parents of their pupils. The parents will also be invited to school functions, including the evening dances and roller-skating parties in the gym. "Westchester...
Either ... Or. The real difference between Stepinac and its rival public high schools, and the real reason Westchester boys commute to it (whether the impetus comes from themselves, their families or their parish priests), is religion. Because of the separation of church & state in the U.S., no pupil can now have any religious instruction, even a Bible reading, on public-school premises.* At Stepinac every boy, whatever his course, has a 45-minute class in religion every day of his four high-school years. He attends regular services in the school chapel and auditorium. Just before Easter each year...
Until he became principal at Stepinac, Father Krug was assistant principal at Cardinal Hayes High School in The Bronx. "We had a very satisfactory number of vocations to the priesthood there," he said. "We should have them here...