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The teaching of the Christion doctrine, according to the Catholic form, is declared to be the foundation of public education in Italy, according to further details of the Treaty and the Concordat between the Vatican and the Kingdom of Italy, which have just been made public. The religious teaching now imparted to the elementary schools is to be extended to the middle schools, in accordance with a program agreeable to the Holy See and the Government. The Church’s holidays are recognized by the State, and all clergy are exempt from taxation.
The clauses of the old Canonical Law which are to be enforced in Italy, according to the Treaty and the Concordat, pertain only to education, marriage and Church properties, it was explained to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent by a Catholic authority. The agreement, he said, makes Catholic instruction obligatory in the Italian schools, but this has been the case also under the present regime before the conclusion of the Concordat, and Jewish parents have the right to ask that Jewish pupils be exempted from Catholic religious instruction.
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