Sir, – The disingenuousness of Tom Stack’s letter, in which he extols the benefits of Catholic schools in the US (February 8th), cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.
He must know that because of the “establishment clause” in the American constitution no public money can be used to fund a school that supports the tenets of any religion. Therefore, unlike here, Catholic schools only exist because of the application of private finance.
That would not be an issue here. The problem in our version of a republic is the use of taxpayers’ money for the furtherance of religious indoctrination. – Yours, etc,
SEAMUS McKENNA,
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