Recommendations for the reorganization of Catholic secondary schools located in the inner city are presented. (MJM)

Interview with Miss Marcia Saunders, principal of Regina High School for girls in Hyattsville, Md., and Associate Member of NCEA's regional board for secondary education (Editor/CB)

Author believes that it is time that educational objectives be revised. An education-philosophy should be formulated recognizing and stressing Christian concepts but integrating these concepts within a framework of Indian thought. (Author/CB)

A Christian community can enliven and enrich an otherwise dead ritual by its attitudinal commitment. (DS)

Argues that the education voucher experiment proposed by the United States Office of Economic Opportunity promises benefits especially for the poor, but that support for it will be hard to come by. (RJ)

Three popular modern movements--ERA, family planning, and legal abortion--all undermine church authority and power by having as their ends the promotion of acts that completely counter the tenets with which the church leadership has indoctrinated its congregants. Actions the Vatican has taken to counter these threats are discussed. (RM)

Characteristics of heresy are outlined. The heresy hunt, in which heresy is labeled and heretics are suppressed, serves as an anxiety-relieving ritual for institutional elites and facilitates their dominance within the institution. A case study of heresy, the "modernist controversy" in Roman Catholicism, is examined. (Author/RM)

Describes the secularization of French secondary schools ("colleges") between 1761-63 when the Parlement expelled Jesuits from their schools and disallowed the order's teaching function. Administrative authority was given to local municipalities who struggled to staff and fund the schools. French universities reluctantly assumed…

At St. Helena School, parent volunteers refurbished a vacant classroom to create a kindergarten and they have remained involved as aides. The author discusses what motivates parents toward school volunteer work: concern for quality education, the need for work experience, and the friendships and personal satisfaction gained from volunteering. (SJL)

Data from 1129 Mexican American women interviewed in Los Angeles in 1973 were used to analyze the effects of religious norms on fertility. Findings indicate that adherence to Roman Catholic norms has a net impact on the fertility of Chicanas reared in the United States, but not those reared in Mexico. (Author/GC)

Describes a program at Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kansas, in which high school seniors work twice each week as community volunteers. (IRT)