Education must be controlled by a child’s parents

 By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 12, 2024 

One of the great things about the growth of home schooling and various cooperative arrangements is that it puts control of education back into the hands of parents. I don’t mean that it is essential for those who are parents to control the education of children generally. I mean that parents must retain control of the education of their own children.

This has been reaffirmed many times by the Church, including in the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Christian Education (Gravissium Educationis).* While the shift of control of education to the State has made it easier for many parents to “send their children to school”, the increasingly ideological character of education in the modern world has created an Orwellian nightmare of totalitarian and semi-totalitarian indoctrination. In schools throughout the West today, children are continuously “carefully taught” the spiritual and moral equivalent of “black is white and white is black.” In fact, ideological “correctness” is now generally prized above academic quality right through college and graduate school.

The problem is so serious that it is relatively easy in most modern communities today for parents to do a better and far more wholesome job of educating their own children or at least retaining control over their education through various kinds of independent cooperative efforts. (I know far more about my own country’s situation, but this is certainly true in other places as well.) In America, some locations and some states make this easier than others, but rarely can it be said any longer that home-schooled and cooperatively-schooled children lag behind their peers in public schools. And by the time these students spend a year or two at independent colleges and universities which are unrestricted by federal and state funds, their average intellectual and moral maturity reveals itself to be far higher than the secular norm.

Through the dominant public methods of education in the United States, in fact, students are most generally taught to think not clearly but ideologically. Both intellectually and morally, such education is a deadly poison.

Responsibilities and charisms

I am writing here of the norm. Obviously, in individual cases some parents will do a very poor job of educating their children, just as they will do a very poor job of raising them well at all. But the biggest impediment is the perceived lack of alternatives to the public schools. Whether in the United States or elsewhere, therefore, the Church must play an important role in education—not perhaps primarily through traditional parish and diocesan schools, but especially by raising awareness of and providing spiritual and even material support for home-schooling and what I call cooperative schooling. It is not too much to say that we also need new religious communities to embrace the very Catholic mission of supporting and enhancing home and cooperative school efforts, offering active involvement in these forms of education as well as other kinds of support to struggling families.

There was a time when it was quite common for new religious communities to devote themselves to the education of orphans and the children of the poor. A revival of authentic religious charisms in the service of enriching home and cooperative educational opportunities may well be just as important now as was the running and staffing of formal parish and diocesan schools just a few generations ago. The Church, of course, has her own obligation to form and educate in the name of Christ Himself, but it is no longer obvious that this obligation is best fulfilled through the restriction of her efforts to Mass, CCD, sacramental formation and formal parochial schools. The time is ripe for each parish to have a Catholic education facilitator on staff who can at the very least orient parishioners to the benefits of home schooling and the possibilities of cooperative schooling in the parish region. Already in the best dioceses of the United States, bishops and Diocesan superintendents of education are becoming engaged with and supporting home schooling and cooperative schooling in their regions.

These efforts need to be mandated by bishops and expanded through our parishes. The Church may well be able to do far more now through facilitation of parents in the education of their own children than she can do, in many places at least, through the establishment of traditional parish and diocesan schools. The Church is indeed both mater et magistra(mother and teacher), but this does not mean heronly or even her best course today is to educate through schools that are simply Catholic versions of the public norms.

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‘Dark day’ for Britain, says bishop, as MPs vote in favour of assisted suicide

 Simon Caldwell

November 29, 2024 at 3:12 pm

MPs today voted for an assisted suicide Bill in an historic moment which was described by a senior Catholic bishop as a “dark day for our country”.

The Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill passed Second Reading by 330 votes to 275, a majority of 55, making extremely likely that assisting in suicides will be lawful for the first time in British history.

At present, assisted suicide is prohibited by up to 14 years in jail under the Suicide Act 1961, though prosecutions are rare.

The Bill will allow medical practitioners to assist in the suicides of terminally ill adults who are deemed to have just six months to live. Two doctors and a High Court judge must approve their deaths.

Read the rest: https://catholicherald.co.uk/breaking-dark-day-for-britain-says-bishop-as-mps-vote-in-favour-of-assisted-suicide/

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With my grand-nephew Oliver and, from left, his brother Brendan and his mother and father, Emma and Josh.

Bishop Strickland: God will punish bishops for their silence while Pope Francis destroys the Church

 Bishop Joseph Strickland strongly rebuked ‘silent’ US bishops in a powerful letter outside the USCCB meeting in Baltimore, warning them that God will punish those who do not speak out against ‘false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican’ under Pope Francis.

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Editor’s note: The following is an open letter by Bishop Joseph Strickland addressed to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) during their 2024 fall plenary assembly in Baltimore.

(LifeSiteNews) — Dear Bishops, 

You gather here today, present-day apostles, as the Church and, therefore, the world stand perched on the edge of a cliff. And yet you who are entrusted with the keeping of souls choose to speak not a word of the spiritual danger which abounds. Today we stand on the cusp of all that has been prophesied about the Church and the abominations which would come forth in these times, a time when all of hell attacks the Church of Jesus Christ, and a time when the fallen angels of hell no longer seek entry into her sacred halls but instead stand inside, peeking out of her windows and unlocking doors to welcome in more diabolical destruction.

I think that St. Jude had men such as many of you in mind when he described men who feast “together without fear, feeding themselves, clouds without water, which are carried about by winds, trees of the autumn, unfruitful, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own confusion; wandering stars…” (Jude 1:12-13). 

Many people have asked what it will take for more than a few bishops to finally speak up against the false messages constantly flowing from the Vatican under the leadership of Pope Francis, and I ask myself the same question over and over: 

WHAT WILL IT TAKE? 

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Chaos Management: Bergoglio’s Fatal Ties to Madrid

Note bene: The blowback can be nuclear for those who do no little or no homework with regard to personnel appointments.

In mid-October, a video emerged showing a parish priest from Madrid, Spain, in a bar in Chueca - Madrid's gay district - bragging about the size of his friend's private parts.

The priest's name is Rev. José Castro Cea. As a result, Cardinal José Cobo of Madrid recommended that the priest "take some time off". The plan was for Castro to fly to the United States.

But that is only the last part of the story.

Sometime around 2016/2017, Father Elías Royón SJ, Francis's Spanish informant, told Bergoglio that Cardinal Carlos Osoro of Madrid was no longer of sound mind and that the ecclesiastical foundations of the Archdiocese of Madrid could cause legal problems.

The Jesuit suggested that if Francis wanted to know more, he should consult a young priest from Madrid. This priest was José Castro Cea.

Using his notorious private detective methods, Francis had two telephone conversations with the priest: one lasting 24 minutes and the other 12.

Unsurprisingly, when Castro Cea celebrated his 25th anniversary as a priest, Francis, who doesn't have time for his cardinals, received him in the Vatican.

During one of his conversations with Francis, Castro Cea recommended to him that a certain Don José Cobo Cano would be the right man to lead the diocese of Madrid.

The two priests had been close friends for years, sharing similar heterodox views and living in the same building.

Soon after, in December 2017, Francis appointed Cobo Cano as auxiliary bishop of Madrid.

But this is not the end of the story.

InfoVaticana.com (11 November) reports that Rev. José Castro Cea continues to be in Madrid and that has made it clear to Cardinal Cobo that he has no intention of leaving his parish.

The blog asks the question: "What does Rev. Castro know about Cardinal Cobo to challenge him in this way?"

To the surprise of many, the two even met in public last week, chatting amicably at a vicariate meeting attended by Cardinal Cobo and Rev. Castro.

According to InfoVaticana.com, there is certainty among the priests of Madrid that Rev. Castro will do as he pleases unless Cardinal Cobo guarantees him a golden retirement.

It seems that Rev. Castro knows more than Cardinal Cobo would like him to know. "The silence you have to buy is not cheap", comments InfoVaticana.com.

Cardinal Zen: “ Francis Wants to Change Church's Doctrines With Endless Meetings He Pretends are Synods”

In his blog on 10 November, Cardinal Zen expressed his concern for the future of our Church.

Francis used the name "synod" only to replace the "synod of bishops" with another kind of meeting, Zen writes. Using his personal authority, he invited 96 lay men and women to participate in the ex-synod as voting members.

After the previous synods, Cardinal Zen sees that Francis "wants to change the Church's doctrines or disciplines each time, instead of discussing how to safeguard these doctrines and disciplines". Cardinal Zen's examples:

- Francis used the Synod on the Family (2014-2015) to try to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion.

- He wanted to use the Synod on the Amazon (2019) to introduce the ordination of married men to the priesthood.

- He wanted to use the Synod on Synodality (2021-2024) to change the Church's hierarchical system (replacing it with a 'democratic' group of the baptised), introduce deaconesses (paving the way for women priests), abolish priestly celibacy and change traditional teaching on 'sexual' ethics (starting with the 'blessing' of homosexual concubinages).

Cardinal Zen notes that these aims have failed. He identifies the current main danger in the final document as the idea that "synodality" should replace the hierarchy. Then the Catholic Church would become "the same" as the Anglican Church and would no longer be the one, Catholic, Apostolic Church.

Finally, Cardinal Zen doubts that the ex-synod is finished. The small study groups will continue until the summer of 2025.

Therefore: "Everyone knows that Francis believes in the 'process' (time is greater than space). What could not be achieved in this assembly can be achieved in the process that begins now. The Synod has ended, but the Synodal Church begins now".

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Nicola Bux: “ At the top of the Church, clerics have taken office for whom Christ is just an excuse to talk about something else.”

Monsignor Nicola Bux: What Happen When the Christian Faith Is No Longer Lived?

Monsignor Nicola Bux, 76, a famous Italian theologian and friend of Benedict XVI, spoke at Le Tavole di Assisi. Excerpts.

- At the top of the Church, clerics have taken office for whom Christ is just an excuse to talk about something else.

- They are creating a "Church in reverse" of what the Lord intended.

- We have reached the point where new bishops, installed in dioceses, destroy what their predecessors did.

- Since the 1960s, utopias have entered the Magisterium to the point of becoming moral norms.

- What happens when Christianity is no longer lived? Christianity disappears, as it does today in Europe and North America.

- As a whole, Christianity will not disappear because Christianity is Christ.

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The Third Secret and Satan’s Entry into the Church

David Martin | The Daily Knight

The late Fr. Malachi Martin who was an exorcist and advisor to three popes spent his life exposing the activity of Satan within the Church. By his books, he served as an extension of Paul VI to make known the truth of his words of June 29, 1972, when he declared: “From some fissure the smoke of Satan entered into the temple of God.

With news continuing to pour out of the Vatican concerning its embrace of sodomy, transgenderism, and indigenous occult religions, it is evident that Satan today is ruling and reigning within the Eternal City. The present apostasy in Rome points more and more to the fulfillment of the Third Secret of Fatima that was given by the Blessed Virgin during her apparitions at Fatima on July 13, 1917. On that date she spoke of the coming entry of Satan into the Church.

The Secret was supposed to be released in 1960, which Pope Pius XII was ready to do before his death in 1958, but unfortunately his successor John XXIII didn’t release the Secret because a clique of Vatican scoundrels (including the infamous Freemason Cardinal Bea) had placed great pressure on him to silence It. By suppressing the Third Secret the Church was deprived of the essential knowledge of its coming onslaught from Satan, which the Secret warned of. Pius XII himself had lamented the day the Secret would be suppressed. “On that day, the Church's misfortunes will start in earnest."

Among those who have read and commented on the Third Secret we find a common thread in that it concerned the satanic infiltration of the Church and the great apostasy that would ensue. The late Fr. Malachi Martin (1921-1999), renown author, exorcist, and adviser to three popes read the Third Secret in February 1960, which is what spurred him to expose the covert activity of Satan within the Church.

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