English Archbishop Protests Plan to Set Admissions Quotas for Faith-Based Schools

From Catholic World News:

Oct. 24 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England, has denounced government plans that would require religious schools to accept a quota of students from other religious traditions.

The archbishop encouraged Catholic school personnel to write to their representatives in Parliament, protesting the plan, the London Daily Telegraph reports. In an article for that newspaper, Arhcbishop Nichols said that he would meet with education secretary Alan Johnson to are his own complaints against the plan, which he characterized as bigoted.

The government argues that the plan will help to create a more "inclusive" society. Archbishop Nichols, in his letter to parochial-school teachers, observed that the government proposal would make it impossible for Church-based schools to control their own admissions policies.

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