The End of Education?

The End of Education?

First Sunday of July 2011:
Third Sunday after Pentecost

Disorientation: How to Go to College without Losing Your Mind¹ is a new book which gives an interesting overview of (un-)education in the country, written by twelve Catholic intellectuals.

The system of higher education—including Catholic institutions—is infected with a long litany of “isms”: hedonism, relativism, progressivism, modernism, scientism, fundamentalism, feminism, multiculturalism, sentimentalism, Americanism and utilitarianism. Catholic students have to jump so many hurdles when they leave the house so that they don't leave the Faith.

If this was not enough, there are (quite) a few unwanted celebrities attached to our “Catholic” universities. Russ Feingold, promoter of “same-sex marriage” and abortion, was recruited to teach at Marquette University in Wisconsin, perhaps to illustrate its motto: “Make the difference.” Sr. Carol Keehan, who was excommunicated by her bishop of Phoenix, is still a member of St. John’s University in New York and of St. Thomas University in Minnesota. The Law faculty of Boston College, a nest of dissident Catholics, “celebrated” the Jesuit priest Robert Drinan, who is in favor of paid abortion by tax payers. Seattle University is also directed by another Jesuit who requests that all 7,900 students go and work in some public institution or non-profit organization, one of which is Planned Parenthood, the #1 cause of abortion in the United States.

Even at the high school level, it is not all rosy! A senior at North Bay, Ontario, Francesca Sinicrope, has recently gone to battle with a teacher and principal at her Catholic high school over the truth of Christ’s Resurrection. “He told us people have taken the Bible too literally. He began saying that it was like a metaphor that you follow… He said that Jesus never resurrected.” Francesca’s video footage, posted on YouTube, recounts the events. “He told my whole class that Jesus had never resurrected,” the 17 year-old said. “That is so unbelievable to me in a Catholic school.” “So what you’re trying to tell me is that what I’ve believed in all my life is wrong, that Jesus never resurrected?” Celine asked. The-18 year-old recalled that the teacher answered: “The moral is right, it’s just the story is wrong. Because He died in our honor we should be nice to each other.”

In response, the principal, Mr. Daniel Villeneuve, wrote to Mrs. Sinicrope on May 25th to assure her that the issue was “thoroughly investigated” with the help of the school’s chaplain. The teacher’s “beliefs and program delivery are in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church that reviewed many beliefs and practices under Vatican II,” he wrote. Francesca called upon her bishop: “Do our local bishops know what the Catholic schools are really teaching? I plead with our bishops to fight against heresy in our schools. What happened in my school went against everything I believe in and this makes me angry because this is supposed to be a Catholic school.” “You might as well say it’s not a Catholic school. It’s in name only”. If Catholic students are required to go to so much trouble with their Catholic teachers to defend a teaching as simple as the resurrection, what do they have to do in their Catholic schools to defend teachings on abortion, homosexuality, or same-sex ‘marriage’?²

These examples―and they could certainly be multiplied ad nauseam―are proof enough of the wisdom of Archbishop Lefebvre who saw the need of schools. It will probably take a century to recover from the fall of Catholic education worldwide, precipitated by a laxist Church. In our own humble scale, we try to salvage what we can, by developing our private schools in the SSPX, if possible at every priory and chapel. Would that all parents heeded the warnings and sent their children to receive a proper education from trustworthy staff in a secure environment!

The End of Education?

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