DAILY CATHOLIC     TUESDAY     June 2, 1998     vol. 9, no. 106

NEWS & VIEWS
from a CATHOLIC perspective

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US CATHOLIC SCHOOLS MUST TEACH TRUTH, SAYS POPE

          VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- Pope John Paul II said that Catholic schools in the United States must teach the truth in all its integrity, despite a climate in which all moral norms are regarded as private preferences.

          As he received a group of American bishops from the midwest, who were making their ad limina visit to Rome, the Holy Father said that Catholic schools have an obligation to "lead young people to the realization that freedom consists above all in responding to the truth." The greatest challenge for Catholic schools in the United States, he continued, is to be an "authentically Catholic" witness in a secular society. He added that Catholic universities, too, should be unyielding in their devotion to the truth-- a devotion which should imply respect for the teaching magisterium of the Church.


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June 2, 1998       volume 9, no. 106
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