“A disaster”

A key Vatican official has called the lack of public funding for Catholic schools in the US “a disaster.” Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, which includes seminaries, told a Vatican news conference that the US government should do more to allow parents to choose the educational option they desire for their children.

 
The cardinal, while presenting a new document, “Educating Together in Catholic Schools,” criticized the US system saying, “The state does not recognize full democracy for Catholic schools.” In America, Grocholewski said, the financial strain on the Church, “makes it difficult to achieve the same economic conditions as the state schools.

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