Archive Report
Archive Report
Growth Problem of Catholic Schools
Clerical and lay leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are engaged in a controversy over church-sponsored schools that is of broad public interest. At stake is the future of a school system which has grown side-by-side with the public schools over the past century and which today enrolls one of every nine American school children. The main question is whether, or where, the church should curtail an undertaking which in large measure duplicates the tax-supported school system.
The controversy has been generated chiefly by the growing financial problem of maintaining an extensive modern educational system solely from private sources of support. Many of the nation's 45 million Roman Catholics have begun to feel that either their schools ...