"The duty of all loyal, God-fearing Christian men (Roman Catholics) then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against this common foe."--_Father Gleason._ "The public schools have produced nothing but a godless generation of thieves and blackguards."--_Priest Schauer._ "I would as soon administer the sacrament to a dog as to Catholics who send their children to public schools."--_Priest Walker._ "The public school system must be destroyed. It must be done by stopping Bible reading, Psalm singing and eliminating objectionable books."--_Priest Phelan._ "To rescue these little ones out of the grasp of that monster (the public school), of that popular idol, is our work."--_Bishop John Hennessy._ "We can have the United States in ten years. And I want to give you three points for your consideration: The Negroes, the Indians and the public schools."--_Bishop Ireland._ "Emphatically a social plague."--_Archbishop Perche._ "A ripe knowledge of the cathechism, minus Massachusetts education, is preferable to her education, minus the catechism."--_Cardinal Antonelli._ "The common school system of the United States is the worst in the world."--_Cardinal Manning._ "The catechism alone is essential for the education of the people."--_Cardinal Antonelli._ "We must take part in the elections. Move in solid mass in every state pledged to sustain the integrity of the public schools."--_Cardinal McCloskey._ "The Roman Church alone is endowed with power to educate the young."--_Cardinal McCloskey._ "Education outside of the control of the Roman Catholic Church is a damnable heresy."--_Pius IX._ "Public schools open to all children for the education of the young should be under the control of the Romish Church, and should not be subject to civil power, nor made to conform to the opinions of the ages."--_Pope Pius IX._ "When I see them drag from me the children, the poor little children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my heart."--_Pope Pius IX._