RIGHTS OF SISTERS.

New Zealand Tablet, 21 July 1921, Page 35

RIGHTS OF SISTERS.

Members of Catholic Sisterhoods are eligible for employment as teachers in the public schools of Indiana, U.S.A., according to an opinion of Mr. U. S. Lesh, At-torney-General of the State. The opinion includes statements to the effect that, in the absence of any regulation prohibiting the wearing of a religious habit by teachers in the public schools, the wearing of such distinctive garb does not make the employment of the wearers illegal nor does the fact that they may be required to turn the money received for. teaching into the treasury of their Order, alter the validity of the contracts under which they are employed.

The opinion of the State Attorney-General was occasioned by a claim made against the trustee of Jefferson township, Dubois County, for 300 dollars alleged to have been paid out illegally for teaching in the public schools. The teacher was a Sister of Charity who had been licensed and regularly employed by the appropriate school authorities, according to the opinion.