ironmonk Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 This is SOOOO true.... MILITANTIS ECCLESIAE (On St. Peter Canisius) Pope Leo XIII [url="http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/L13MILIT.HTM"]http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/L13MILIT.HTM[/url] 16. These are the things to ensure on this point. First, Catholics should not choose mixed schools but have their own schools especially for children. They should choose excellent and reputable teachers for them. For an education in which religion is altered or non-existent is a very dangerous education. We often see both cases occurring in mixed schools. No one should be ready to believe that instruction and piety can be separated with impunity. In effect, if it is true that [b]We cannot exempt ourselves from the duty of religion at any period of life, in private or public affairs, so much the less should this duty be omitted at any age which is thoughtless, in which the spirit is ardent and exposed to so many inducements to evil.[/b] 17. To organize teaching in such a way as to remove it from all contact with religion is therefore to corrupt the very seeds of beauty and honor in the soul. It is to prepare, not defenders of the nation, but a plague and a scourge for the human race. [b]Once God is suppressed, what can keep young people dutiful or recall them when they have strayed from the path of virtue and fall into the abyss of vice?[/b] Someone else on the board had quoted this doc in ref to Catholics need to go to Catholic Schools (and now I can't find it), and I saw the above when going through the doc and wanted to point this out to everyone... Please point it out to others. If we want to fix society, we must spread the Word. God Bless, ironmonk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilovechrist Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Amen to that ironmonk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCC_Catholic Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 [color=red][b]Amen to that!!!![/b][/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Catholic school isn't free... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCC_Catholic Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 [quote name='Cesar624' date='Jul 29 2004, 10:50 PM'] Catholic school isn't free... [/quote] that is true. i am thinking of homeschooling my children when i have them one day simply b/c i want them to have a Catholic Education plus i want them to see the world see the places of history and i think that with my LD being so bad that they may get one that would be bad too and i know what i went through in school and would not want them the go through the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 I go to a public high school, and to be honest...I wouldn't want to go to a Catholic school. I love the diversity and I love being around so many different types of people with so many different kinds of opinions and ideas. It really gets you ready for the real world. I have friends that are Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Protestant, Buddhist, Taoist and even some Agnostics and Atheists...but I love them all and feel like each one has a little something positive to them that helps me grow socially and spiritually. Would I put my kids in Catholic school? Maybe...is it for ME?...I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 Oh, and BTW...not going to a Catholic school doesn't make me any less Catholic than someone who LIVES in a Catholic school...so sorry Pope Leo, I AM A REAL CATHOLIC, and I don't need to go to a Catholic school to reinforce that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom25angels Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 hey ironmonk the thread you were refering to is over on the Debate forum.....it's titled Catholic education is a MUST PAX, Sarah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.SIGGA Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 I agree with th Pope. I hated my Catholic high school when I went there, but I really appreciate the experience now. The Catholic schools need to do more to help out families that can't afford the tuition. My school was almost $7k/yr and they offered a few scholorships, but that was it; I knew some Catholic families who couldn't afford to attend there, or the other Catholic high schools, and had to go to public schools. They also need good qualified Catholic teachers instead of coaches teaching religion classes, and better pay!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 [quote name='Cesar624' date='Jul 29 2004, 10:50 PM'] Catholic school isn't free... [/quote] Actually, in one diocese in Kansas, they managed to get a good portion of the people to practice tithing, and the result is that Catholic schools there are in fact free of charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 [quote name='Norseman82' date='Jul 30 2004, 12:14 AM'] Actually, in one diocese in Kansas, they managed to get a good portion of the people to practice tithing, and the result is that Catholic schools there are in fact free of charge. [/quote] That's ONE Diocese in Kansas...what about the poor people in other parts of the country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 [quote name='Cesar624' date='Jul 30 2004, 12:20 AM'] That's ONE Diocese in Kansas...what about the poor people in other parts of the country? [/quote] Maybe the practice will spread..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar624 Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 [quote name='Norseman82' date='Jul 30 2004, 12:24 AM'] Maybe the practice will spread..... [/quote] It's good to dream... -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 or maybe Leo is commanding us all to move to Kansas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted July 30, 2004 Share Posted July 30, 2004 One thing that concerns me about Catholic schools is whether or not they are as unorthodox as the Catholic universities are. If that is the case then how would they be different are they from public schools? If the schools are as orthodox and high quality as they were before the 60s, then I would gladly enroll my kid. The Catholic universities now, I know, are wolves in sheep's clothing. They claim Catholicity and yet teach that you can still be a good Catholic without "following the rules or letting the pope tell you what to do." I'd just about send my kid to a public college before I sent them to a Catholic university unless it was Steubenville. I grew up in a public school, no Catholic school in town and my parents would not have been able to afford it anyway. I think the biggest pitfall is the lack of solid catechesis in CCD or whatever they call it now. My mother's notebook from her Catholic education before her confirmation in high school had notes about marriage being a trinity, being a good child of Mary, the sacraments, spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and that artificial contraception was wrong, among other things. The average youth group nowdays sits in a circle, lights some candles and talks about how much Jesus is our buddy. Which is fine in bits and pieces, but there are lot of things that I learned not really from CCD, but only because I had a good friend whose family I really looked up to that taught NFP locally. They got me to thinking about my Catholicism. I didn't even know what mortal sin was until I got into college. I'm less concerned about whether or not my kids are educated publicly or privately AS MUCH as I am making sure that they have a SOLID religious education. So given that the pope would be talking about GOOD orthodox Catholic schools, then I am in agreement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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