Catholic Laity and the Public Schools

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 29, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 5

Catholic Laity and the Public Schools

THE Educational Weekly, whose editor was born and bred a Roman Catholic, says: “The papal syllabus would annihilate the public schools; but somehow it doesn’t. So the papal bull, once upon a time, would annihilate the comet; but it didn’t. The public schools are necessary to the Catholic poor of this country, and they will be maintained, as they are maintained, by the suffrage and taxes of the people. Despite the medieval history of the church, despite the attitude of the Belgian Episcopacy, despite the fulminations of the syllabus, the Catholic laity believe in, support, and patronize the public schools, and by this fact they should be judged, regardless of the irrational vaporizing or petty squabbles of Father Scully.”