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Do Catholic Schools Cause People to go to Church?

IN a sample survey of the Australian population J. J. Mol (1968) reached some firm conclusions about the effect of attendance at a Catholic school on the ’religious’ behaviour of persons who were Catholics. These are stated, with varying confidence, at a number of points in the paper: ’It is quite clear that both the church-going habits of the parents and Catholic-school education have a very significant bearing on the church-going of the respondent’ (p. 25). ’Both the independent and cumulative contribution of a Catholic-school system as measured by increased church-attendance, more regular prayer, stronger beliefs in God, etc. is beyond any doubt’ (p. 32). ’Its [i.e. the Catholic church’s] decision to increase its influence over the entire process of education has certainly proved to be a redoubtable barrier (at least on the surface) to the further secularization of its membership’ (p. 33). ’On the basis of the survey, the hunch is that the correlation [between the strength of the Catholic school system and the formation of the ideal &dquo;apostle&dquo;] is slightly positive’ (p. 34). ’Without its enormous and costly effort in education, the Catholic Church in Australia would be much weaker and would have a decidedly lesser hold on its membership’ (p. 35). The basis for these conclusions is differences in the responses to a series of closed-questions of 109 Catholics who had no Catholic school education and 290 Catholics who had some Catholic school education. For instance, 48 per