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Article: Beneath Boston's Catholic subculture
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 18, 1994
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SEPARATISM AND SUBCULTURE
Boston Catholicism, 1900-1920
By Paula M. Kane
University of North Carolina Press,
415 pp., illustrated, $49.50
In November, Massachusetts voters may once again face -- for the
third time in a dozen years -- the ballot question of whether they
want to strike the "anti-aid" amendment from the state constitution
and allow the use of public funds to support private and parochial
schools.
The amendment was drafted by a constitutional convention in 1917
and ratified by the state's voters later that year, and a
substantially revised version was ratified in 1974. Senate President
William M. Bulger, who has led the fight for repeal for the past
dozen years, ...