ABSTRACT
A group of churches are banded together and employ teachers who instruct in an inter-denominational religion offered in the regular school classroom. Combining religion, morality, and intellectual training in the Catholic school curriculum is not an adjunct to instruction in other subjects but the centre, about which the remaining branches are arranged and to which they are related. The religious pattern and its relation to education in the United States actually presents no single pattern, but rather a multiplicity of separate groups—but each church and sect paying attention to the education of its children. One unique aspect of the American state and federal structures that administer public education is the control exercised by the tradition of public responsibility. The refusal of the Papacy to recognize the new states left the Latin-American churches without a metropolitan organization for many decades; during this period the influence of the church suffered from a lack of superior guidance and discipline.
