[Arthur McGowan]

That statement that Catholics MAY approve...of public schools is a condemned proposition. Thus, the Pope was not teaching that Catholic may approve, but that they may not.

[Siobhan]

Yes. I am repeating myself, but I am so struck at how the Pope's judgement continues to speak to our own time with so much variation in situations and compromises accepted over the years. Here is a plumb-line straight and true. It comes from another age, addressing primarily a very different set of political situations and difficulties but it provides us with a tremendous mechanism for evaluating the current argument in favor of sending Catholic children to public schools in the USA as well as for an emphatic counter-response in the negative for the aforementioned reasons.

[narses]

That statement that Catholics MAY approve...of public schools is a condemned proposition. Thus, the Pope was not teaching that Catholic may approve, but that they may not.

It seems that at least one Deacon disagrees with the above sentiment though.