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VOL. 22, NO. 36
FALL RIVER, MASS., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1978
Anti-Catholic Propaganda Doomed Tuition Credits
ELEANOR NORTON
Executive Suite Discrimination To Be Probed WASHINGTON (NC) - The head of the agency with primary federal responsibility for fighting discrimination in employment says she plans to investigate and attack "executive suite discrimination" against Catholics and Jews. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the first woman to head the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, discussed her plans for what appears to be the first major federal effort in this area in an interview with NC News at her Washington office. She said that while minorities and women are still struggling to be accepted in mi<\dle-level jobs, "Catholics and Jews have indeed been able to penetrate the work force . . . but there are particular industries where there are artificial cut-off points, nonnally at a fairly low middlemanagement level, for people who are not Anglo-Saxon Protestants." "You have not sunnounted discrimination in this country," she said, "unless you sunnount it in all the places where it exists, and mobility in the marketplace is very important." Turn to Page Two
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How can a bill that has 50 cosponsors lose on the floor of the United States Senate? How can a bill be defeated by the most liberal Senate in history when more conservative Senates have passed it? What peculiar alchemy took place in the tuition tax measure that it used to lose in the House of Representatives and win in the Senate, and now it wins in the House of Representatives and loses in the Senate? The answer, of course, is that once tUition-tax-credit became close to being a reality, the public school lobby-fearful of what would happen if it had to face authentic quality competition and the anti-Catholic bigotry around the country rallied to support President Carter and Secretary Joseph Califano in violating the Democratic Party's pledge to do something to help parochial schools - - particularly the inner-city parochial schools which are mostly black. Who were the sponsors of the measures who voted against it? Quetin Burdick, D-N.D., Howard Cannon, D-Nev., Peter Domenici, R-N.M., Mike Gravel, D-Alaska, Jesse Helms, R-N.C., Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, Patrick Leahy, R-Vt., James McClure, R-Idaho, George McGovern, D-S.D., Jennings Randolph, D-W.Va., John Sparkman, D-Ala., Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and Milton Young, R-N.D. One wonders very much why they turned against Catholic schools after first agreeing to support aid to them. One also wonders about those senators who have always relied heavily on Catholic votes for election and who nonetheless went along with the anti-eatholic propaganda - Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., Adlai Stevenson, D-Il!., John Glenn, D-Qhio, Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, and Donald Riegle, D-Mich. Why did
all these senators go against the cation that he thought there promise made in the Democratic might be hypocrisy involved platfonns of 1972 and 1976? oppose a measure that is overWhy did they vote against Presi- . whelmingly popular with their dent Carter's promise to find own constituency? ways to aid Catholic schools (in There are two answers to the a letter of October 19, 1976)? question. First of all, Stevenson Why did George McGovern go and Kennedy and the others back on his word given in a were under strong pressure from speech of September 19, 1972, in the traditional "liberal" groups which he said, "I am annaunc- the National Council of ing my support for the tax credit Churches, the National Associaapproach to aid the parents of tion for the Advancement of children attending parochial Colored People, the Parent-Teaschools."? chers Association - to block How can men like Stevenson something that would help Cathand Kennedy - the latter who olic schools. They were under went to Rome to the funeral of the pressures of the enonnous the pope to represent American bigotry that these groups had Catholics and then came home generated, charging that Cathto vote against American Cath- olic schools were racist. They olic schools with no visible indi- were under pressures from the age-old American nativist antiCatholic tradition. Indeed Senator Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., boasted proudly on the Senate floor that he not only was not anti-Catholic, but that With the theme "Sharing the he had one parochial school graduate on his staff. Some of Light of Faith," Catechetical Senator Hollings' best friends Sunday will be observed this doubtless are Catholic! weekend in diocesan parishes. So, men like Stevenson and A letter from Bishop Daniel A. Kennedy voted against the bill Cronin pointing out the importance of the observance will be because they thought they could get away with it. There was read at all Masses. enonnous pressure from the "We commend all those who anti-Catholic groups and from have responded to the call to the public-school monopoly and 'share the light of faith' within almost no pressures from the our parish religious education Catholic church. They have perprograms," writes the bishop. suaded themselves, as Secretary "But the responsibility belongs Califano persuaded President to everyone, within the class- Carter, that Catholics really rooms, in our families, at work, don't care about their schools, at leisure. Each of us must as- and that aid to parochial schools sume what is given to us by is not an issue that can be transGod, the responsibility to grow lated into voted appeal with in faith and to share with others American Catholics. It's just like what we know from the Lord: abortion, they say to themselves His mercy, His peace, His love. - the bishops can't deliver the "I recommend to you the vote on abortion and they can't ministry entrusted to all of us deliver the vote on parochial in Baptism, sharing faith with schools either. Turn to Page Six Turn to Page Two
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Bishop'To Lead Trip to Italy In Jubilee Year The Rev. Ronald A. Tosti, Coordinator of the Jubilee Celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Fall River, announced today final plans for a diocese trip to Rome scheduled for June 10-23 of 1979. The trip is a part of the diocese's celebration of its founding and an invitation is extended to all to participate. The Most Reverend Daniel A. Cronin, D.D., Bishop of Fall River, who is planning to lead participimts to an audience with His Holiness, Pope John Paul I during the journey, has made the following statement: "It is indeed most fitting that, as part of our celebration, we travel to the city of Rome. Such a visit will afford a wonderful opportunity to pray at the tombs of the Apostles, Peter and Paul, and to renew our sentiments of loyalty to our Holy Father, the successor of St. Peter. The Eternal City, glorious in its history and in the witness of its martyrs, can only serve to increase our faith. Toward this good end, I cordially invite your partiTurn to Page Two
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