Religion: Social Action in San Antonio

Roman Catholic pro-labor liberalism and New Dealism came to the Southwest in a big way this month when the new Archbishop of San Antonio sponsored a two-week School of Social Justice—the first ever held in that section. To it went 147 priests, mostly young, mostly from the San Antonio province. Coatless and often collarless. they sat intent day after day in the sweltering heat, mopping their brows and taking notes. Some things they were taught:

> The social order should be reconstructed by the self-organization of industry, agriculture and the professions—labor always included.

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