Aid for Church Schools Held Constitutioiial By Paul H. Hallett schools is a public function a Church-related institution would never have written into A masterly feat of lucid which by its nature is deserving i meeting reasonable state re- their Constitution any clauses legal analysis, a triumphant of governmental support. i quirements. aimed at sterilizing public life of religious content, and vindication of common 2) There exists no constitutio­i 4) The government in the U.S. sense, is the way Joseph C. nal bar to the aid of such edu- is without power to impose upon 2) No U.S. Supreme Court Craven, attorney for the the people a single educational decision can be cited to show that government may proffer Denver Archdiocese, de- system in 'Vhich all must par­ ticipate. its assistar’ ce to the health cribes ttw tt-page study just re­ and education of our citizens leased by the NCWC Legal De­ In 19 Slotnf only through secularized gov­ partment in Washington on "The As a matter of policy, aid to ernmental institutions. Constitutionality of the Inclusion Church-related schools is vindi­ On the contrary, the court has of Church-Related Schools in cated by these two facts: upheld appropriation of moneys Federal Aid to Education.” In 19 states, whose school pop­ to Catholic hospitals, and has Collaborating on this work ulation represents half that of approved bus rides and text­ were William R. Consedine, head the nation. Catholic schools are books to Church-related schools. of the NCWC Legal Department, providing education to 18.6 per Mmy Co-operof* Father Charles M. Whalen, of cent of all children in elemen­ Georgetown University; tary and secondary schools. The Supreme Court in 1952 William V. Ball, general coun­ For the year 1960 alone, the held that "we are a religious sel of the Pennsylvania State Catholic educational system sa­ people” and that religion and Welfare Committee, and George ved American taxpayers $1,800,- government may in various E. Reed, associate director "of 000,000. ways co-operate. the NCWC Legal Department The Catholic schools are a The Meyer decision of 1923 and former practicing attorney meeting place for children of struck forcefully at the view in Denver. different economic and ethnic that all educational rights belong H w precise qnesUon to backgrounds and have usually to the state, and even more elo­ which nils study addressed It­ not been located according to quently the Oregon decision of self is: May the federal gov- racial neighborhoods. 1925 declared that the child is George E. Reed emment provide secular edu­ They have historically proved not the mere creature of the State. cational benefits to the public cation in its secular function, a" invaluable training ground in private non-profit schools, Six of Hierarchy at Jubilee Mass This may take the form of to prepare citizens for full par­ For almost 200 years Congress Church-related as well as non- matching g r a n t s , long-term ticipation in a pluralistic so has in numerous ways provided Bishops and priests from throughout the Rocky Mountain loney, Arehbishop Urban J. Vehr of Denver, Bishop Bernard denominational? loans to I institutions, scholar­ ciety. aid to Church-related schools. area traveled to Denver to join Auxiliary Bishop David M. Ma­ J. Sullivan, S.J., Titular Bishop of Helicamassns and retired A list of 41 such programs con­ loney in celebrating the silver jubilee of his ordination as a Bishop of Patna, India; Bishop Charles A. Bnswell of Pueblo; The specific conclusions to ships, tuition payments, or tax C on stitu tion a lly , aid to sisting of grants to Church-re­ priest. Gathered to congratulate Bishop Maloney after his Ju­ and Bishop Hubert M. Newell of Qieyenne. A crowd of 225 'to which this study comes are benefits. ^ Church-related school children lated institutions was issued on bilee Mass Dec. 12 in St. Thomas’ Seminary are, from left. Monsignori and priests attended the Mass. as ftdlows: 3) The parents and child haveis j unimpeachable, because; March 28 of this year by the Bishop Joseph Lennox Federal of Salt Lake City, Bishop Ma­ 1) Education in Church-relateda constitutional right to choose 1) The Founding Fathers Department of Health, Educa­ tion, and Welfare. On Ml. SI. Francis’ Campus Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations On the other hand, the predic­ Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1961 — Permission to Reproduce, Except table result of any massive fed­ , On Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue eral aid to education that would $640,000 Circular Chapel Rising exclude the voluntary school would result in a critical weak­ Construction is under way on 360, will focus on a large central At present there are 60 sis­ The Sisters of St. Francis Ser­ ening of the latter, presaging a new $650,000 circular chapel altar and Communion railing. ters living at Mt- St. Francis, aph operate 20 schools and the ultimate closing of many at the mother-house of the Poor Native stone from the Mt. St. nine hospitals, including St. An­ Church-related schools. and 40 aspirants studying at the Sisters of St. Francis Seraph on Francis property will be used thony’s Hospital, Denver; St. DBIVERCATHOIIC Such discriminatory aid, the the Woodmen Valley campus of to finish the exterior of the high school there. Mother Regin- Francis’ Hospital in Colorado tudy pointed out, would in effect Mt. St. Francis, north of Colo­ building’s first story; the upper alda is the Provincial. Father Springs; five hospitals in Ne. “prohibit the free exercise of rado Springs. level will be finished with pre­ Walter Jaeger serves as chap­ braska, and one each in Kansas religion,” forbidden by the First A carillion tower, which will cast concrete. lain. and New Mexico. Amendment. house a high fidelity elec­ REGISIBR tronic Flemish bells system with a two octave range, will ChriftnMS Vigil, face Woodman Valley and the VOL LVI. No. 18 , THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1961 DENVER, COLORADO campus. St. Vincent's Open House to Mork imber Days Architect for the new structure is Gordon Sweet of Colorado Oroot Ciiarity to Famlllei Since Dec. 24 falls on a Sun­ Springs. The general contract Erection of $300,000 Additions day this year, the Vigil of Christmas may be observed has been awarded to Gerald H. vent at St. Vincent de Paul’s grade school but also a propos­ wlthont the traditional fast Phipps, Inc., of Colorado Springs An open house will be De Paul Society Works Gain and Denver. Parish, Denver. Including furn­ ed high school. and complete abstinence. held Sunday, Dec. 17, from ishings, the cost is more than The new chapel wiU bring 2 to 4 p.m. to mark the A $250,000 fund drive was By Edwahd T. Smith more persons in those families, society paid 1,583 visits to fam­ Pope John XXIU in 1959 ex­ bring to nine the number of $300,000. launched in the parish in the tended to the faithful the completion of major addi­ Members of the St. Vin­ and distributed aid worth thou­ ilies in the year—436 more than major buildings on the 1,400 The two-story school annex fall of 1960. A 25-month pay­ choice of observing the VigU tions to the school and con- boosted the total number of cent de Paul Society in the sands of dollars more than in the previous year—and aided acrra of land belonging to the ment period was set op to of Christmas eiflier on Dec. classrooms to 16, all of which Archdiocese of Denver in. 1960,, according. , to the 45th an- 4,311 persons in the families, an convent. The convent operates cover the parish debt and the 23 or Dec. 24. will be in use when the next the past year made increase of 564 over 1960. its own dairy and poultry costs of the expansion. school year starts. In conjunction with the cam­ The total value of aid pro­ NotaUm Fro/ad Since Dec. 24 is a Sunday, farm and has its own reser­ visits to. families, assisted Prison Chaplain The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Eu­ paign, the parish eliminated the vided by the so d e ^ la IK l Other significant gains for the Catholics this year need not voir and water system . gene A. O’Sullivan, pastor, second collection on Sundays, amount^ to $48,ltt,88, sur- ^ r included 1 ^ children " fe tte Tii^with f^st a«d' T ^ , gnfflnd jjoor Will Mark 37 said present enrollment, which school tuitioh, the building fund panlng the previous yien’ s m parochial schools’, an increase abstlmmtif,* Bcdtratig toi the story structure will house ad­ is 668, is expected to rise to coUection, and a special contri­ total by $2,264.03. of 150 per cent over 1960; 1,309 Rev. Waiter J. Schmitz, B.S., St. Jude Burse ministrative offices, common’s Years as Priest about 700 at that time. On the bution plan in the Summer that transients aided by the Salvage dean ol ^ 's c h o o l of theology In tus letter addressed to the and seminar fooms, and living teaching staff at present are served as a replacement for in­ Bureau, an increase of 65; and at the Catholic University of Father Justin McKeman, O.S. deceives $34 Vincentians, Archbishop Urban quarters for the administrative eight Sisters of Loretto and come that had formerly been de­ 7,789 articles of clothing distrib­ America. B., 64, chaplain for the past 17 J. Vehr said; staff.