id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _004725499 nan Who's who in the P.O.A.U.? 1951 .txt text/plain 52314 2073 60 The POAU was bom at a Conference of leading Protes- tant ministers of many denominations (October 14, 1947)«who THE POAU 15 invited other organizations” to join them, to check, as they say, the political activity of the Catholic Hierarchy, to forestall co-operation, if not union, of this nation with the Catholic Church, to keep the Catholic Church from capturing the public schools as they had allegedly done at North College Hill in Cincinnati; to have Catholic Sisters removed from the teaching staff of public schools; to see to it that no feder- al or state aid would be paid even indirectly for the support of parochial schools, and to have the laws in the seventeen states, which allowed public school children to receive relig- ious instruction on released time, recalled—as well as those laws which allowed bus transportation to children attending non-public schools. He charges that the Catholic Church defames the public schools by calling them godless” and secular.” cache/_004725499.txt txt/_004725499.txt