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- Archives - “Evolution” of the Catholic School System - Part one - by Nadir Martello
For the majority of people in western society evolution means a gradual but progressive change in the world. In reality evolution, or Darwinism, for a better word, is the biggest deception of our modern times. But the focus of this writing is not the subject of evolution per se, rather the “evolution” of the Catholic school system during the last few decades – 1960 - 2000. As an introduction, I have to say that the word ‘evolution’ has been deliberatively chosen, for the fact that this theory though never proven, has held fast for so many years as a ‘fact,’ and taught in the schools, whether state or Catholic. In a similar way Catholic education holds on tenaciously, in spite of the fact that it is unproven. Scientifically, evolution through mutations cannot happen because mutations through evolution means changing for the worse [degradation] and not for better [evolution]. Actually, the phrase evolution through mutation is an oxymoron. Mutations, science says, occur in the universe by loss of information in the DNA and never by acquiring information. Where are the intermediate species, from ape to human claimed by the spin-doctors and the media controlled by the money-masters? Historically, education was the task of parents, not of governments. It was by natural right [read from God] that parents had the responsibility to educate their children without interference from the outside, whether from the state, government, or an elite. Unfortunately, parents today, after giving up their responsibility a long time ago, think that it is the task of the government to educate their children. Fatal mistake! Initially, the Catholic schools were founded primarily, for two reasons: 1) for the instruction in the Catholic faith/doctrine of the Church; 2) to provide a service that the parents were unable to provide (the state school system almost non-existent in that day). Originally Catholic schools were run by religious institutions such as the Christian Brothers, Salesians, and many congregations of teaching nuns. Since Vatican II [1962-65] a big change took place in the Catholic Church. Regrettably, this change wasn’t for the better (as with ‘evolution’) but for the worse. Doctrinal and moral anarchy As far back as 1992 BA Santamaria had this to say: Almost a quarter-century has passed since the publication of Jedin’s article [Fr Hubert Jedin, S.J.]. Whatever remedies for the incipient crisis were tried have, in fact, proved quite ineffective in stemming the doctrinal and moral anarchy which obviously envelops the Church today. Although the de-stabilisation of the institution of the family throughout the Western world has had a profound effect on the two generations which have followed, the greatest cause of failure is the lack of effective response within the Church itself. The monograph, Sponsoring Faith in Adolescence, prepared by Sr Carmel Leavey O.P. and her associates for the official Institute of Religious Studies, provides further statistical documentation – if more were needed – to establish this point. Although based on a systematic continuing study of only three schools, the statistical basis is presented as sufficiently wide to encapsulate the general position within the Catholic school system. The fact that the preface to the book is written by Fr Tom Doyle, Director of Melbourne’s Catholic Education Office, is a sufficient indication that the results disclosed by the research are accepted as reliable by “the government” and not merely by “the opposition”.’ What Sr Carmel Leavey’s research disclosed is that of those who are still at school [1992]: · 77% have at least a tentative belief in God and Jesus; · 57-58% have some intention of modelling their lives on the teaching and example of Christ; · 35% have a ‘positive’ view of their knowledge of Christianity; · 13% can explain the incarnation; · 42% believe in the certainty of life after death; · 2% could adequately explain the Kingdom of God; · 43% went to weekly Mass (compared with 90% in similar survey in 1970 and 63% in 1981). (‘The graph points downwards,’ AD 2000 Vol 5 No 7 (August 1992), p 2) http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/1992/aug1992p2_758.html I am pointing out the Catholic school system, although I know that the state school is even in a worse position. This is not just in generic terms, for today most people know that the modern education system has failed us. After God was ousted from this institution [since the big ‘reform’ in the ’70s], thanks to the teaching of the theory of evolution (as if it were fact) and the promotion of ever more offensive sex education at an ever lower age, drug culture, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, violence, etc, are rife in the school system. The Catholic schools are better, people say, for their discipline. This attracts parents and, if you have the money to pay the school-fees, you may opt for it. I would not. The reason is that I cannot see the difference in essence between the two systems. Except for discipline and the onerous cost involved - what is gained by sending children there? State and Catholic school curriculum are the same – evolution and sex education are taught in both. Whether state or Catholic, all schools are tainted with drugs today, though maybe not so widespread in the Catholic school as in the state school system. The real purpose of the Catholic Church in establishing and maintaining schools was, and still is, for the instruction in Catholic faith. However, as we have seen the Catholic Church failed to transmit her Tradition and doctrine to the new generations. 99% of teaching in the Catholic system is secular rather than religious; the 1% of the remnant pays lip service to the Catholic Faith but in reality undermines it. Br Kelvin Canavan, executive director of schools Catholic Education Office, Sydney outlined a different aspect of the Australian problem in a report in the Melbourne Herald (4 April 1989). “The decision by the Commonwealth in 1974 to channel funds to most Catholic parish and regional schools through Catholic education offices and commissions led to the growth of Catholic educational bureaucracies.” The government makes use of these bureaucracies at diocesan, state and national levels to influence schools educational policies. A letter or telephone call from the Department Of Employment and Training to the National Catholic Education Commission can begin an involvement with every Catholic school in this country…………… Those who foresaw the dangers were simply swept aside and have remained in the dustbin of Catholic history ever since. The Catholic schools have become increasingly a Catholic department of an essentially public system.” (My emphasis) (Catholic Educational Bureaucracies – What Now? AD2000 Vol 2 No 4 (May 1989). P. 3)http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/1989may1989p3_641.html What really is beyond my understanding is the fact that people today still send their children to Catholic schools believing that they are better than the state schools. To illustrate this strange phenomenon I will take the following analogy. When I buy clothes I prefer to spend my money in a second-hand shop rather than to buy new – it saves money and energy. Often the same shirt, or very close in quality, in St Vincent de Paul or Lifeline, costs me less than 1/10 what a new one would cost. Now the new item represents the Catholic school where it costs more money than in the state school – the second hand shop. Thus many people – 20% of school children in Australia - chose ‘quality’ and spend more. “What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.” Horatio Bottomley 1860-1933 >>Part two [See also "Bankruptcy of the Church & the Remnant"]
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