Posted on 06/17/2013 5:40:07 AM PDT by markomalley
The US President has made an alarming call for an end to Catholic education inNorthern Ireland in spite of the fact that Archbishop Gerhard Müller told Scots that Catholic education was 'a critical component of the Church.’
President Barack Obama(above), repeated the oft disproved claim that Catholic education increases division in front of an audience of 2000 young people, including many Catholics, at Belfast’s Waterfront hall when he arrived in the country this morning.
“If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,” the US president said.
The US politician made the unfounded claim despite a top Vatican official spelling out the undeniable good done by Catholic education in aspeech in Glasgow on Saturday and in his homily at Mass on Friday.
Archbishop Gerhard Müller (below), prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, told an audience in Scotland that Catholic education provided arare place where ‘intellectual training, moral discipline and religious commitment would come together’ while giving the presitigous Cardinal Winning Lecture on Saturday to officially launch the St Andrews Foundation for Catholic teacher education at Glasgow University. During Mass at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow, on Friday night he said that ‘the Catholic school is vitally important … acritical component of the Church,’ adding that Catholic education provides young people with awonderful opportunity to ‘grow up with Jesus.’
Mr Obama is in Northern Ireland to take part in the two day G8 Summit at the Lough Erne resort in Enneskillen.
Seriously, what an ass-hat; to go to another country and tell them "you're doing it wrong!"
Mulsim POTUS (wanna argue with me?) wants to end religious education for OTHERS, and force all kiddies into Gummint schools.
....Lousey Gummint schools.
Whatta shock.
Umm, you’re off base on this one Mark.
We need to stick together and attack the Kenyan - not the Church.
We are supposed to replace our faith with belief in centralized government.
Like it's any of his freeping business. Won't someone tell this unmitigated blatherskite to get out of their country and keep his pathologically ignorant opinions to himself?
Why the Catholics?
I’ll be anxiously awaiting his call to the muslim countries to shut their maddrosas.
Well, at least you're consistent.
Most towns is the UK have Catholic schools in them.
They are going nowhere.
O’barry is just an empty vessel sounding off about something he knows nothing about, in a culture he knows nothing about.
He will be duly ignored and will blow away in the wind along with the bad smell he brought with him.
What is the percentage of US high school grads that cannot read? (Catholic v. public schools.)
Thank you for the local perspective, and I hope the weather is nice and gusty!
The difference between there and the U.S. is that he has power here to rule over a culture he is unfamiliar with.
did he say anything about Madrassas?
I've told him but he keeps coming back!
FUBO
Waiting for Mr. Ubama to make this declaration at a Gay Pride event about American students who attend Catholic schools instead of celebrating sodomites.
I hate Obama beyond words - he is the worst pos EVER EVER to hold office
It’ll be merely a matter of time before he goes after private and homeschools in the US.
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