Catholics resist
Catholics got their back up in the United Kingdom:
Here in Britan intense pressure from the Catholic Church has led to a dramatic U-turn by the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, on the issue of faith schools. Last week Mr Johnson announced that all new faith schools would be obliged to admit a quarter of pupils from outside their faith community but by last night he had abandoned the plan. What happened? Though The Tablet was printed before the U-turn, James Macintyre’s article leaves readers in no doubt that the quota-plan caused deep divisions at the heart of the Government with many Labour backbenchers fearing a huge backlash from Catholic voters. The chairman of the Catholic Education Service, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, who led opposition to the proposal, also spells out the seriousness of the threat it posed to faith schools.
Are there bishops in the United States so bold and competent?
posted by Jim Bowman @ 10/27/2006 03:49:00 PM
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