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Answer: If it is at all possible, the procedure to be followed in this case is to have Catholics visit Catholic families, Protestants visit Protestant families, etc. Thus, Catholics would be called on to invite only Catholic children to Catholic instructions. This might require a previous survey of the district, so that the families may be classified according to their religious affiliation, but it would be the best system for all concerned. Certainly, many non-Catholics, as well as Catholics, would prefer it. Doubtless, the method of having Catholics urge non-Catholic children to attend non-catholic instructions, and vice versa, would appeal to those who favor “interfaith” groups and who extol “unity of religious purpose,” etc., but per se it is forbidden to Catholics. For Catholics believe that Catholicism alone is true and all other religions are false, and hence they regard it as per se sinful to urge anyone to participate actively in non-Catholic religious services or to attend non-Catholic religious instructions. We say that per se this is sinful, for there is a moral principle that might justify such conduct in certain circumstances. It is the principle admitted by many good theologians, that when a person is going to do something wrong, another may lawfully urge him to do something less sinful, if this is the only way of deterring him from the greater evil. Now, it might be argued that at the present day the majority of non-Catholic children in our great cities will be brought up in entire ignorance of religion and morality if they are not given instruction in the released-time program, and that it would be a lesser evil to have them receive non-Catholic instruction (which contains some elements that are true and good, even though it contains error) than if they were brought up devoid of religion. If conditions are such in a city that the released time program will not be introduced unless Catholics are wiling to urge non-Catholics to attend non-Catholic instructions, this principle might be applied. But in these circumstances Catholic lay workers should be properly instructed, lest they become imbued with indifferentistic ideas.