Posted on 03/04/2015 8:53:08 AM PST by marshmallow
The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu has dared students who cannot comply with the religious rules and practices in Catholic schools to quit and move to other schools, if they so desire.
According to him, many of the students who attend Catholic schools chose the schools because of the age- long discipline and religious ethics that have existed in those schools.
His comment follows a statement by the Bishops Conference Tuesday that directed heads of Catholic schools to “remain resolute” and continue with all religious practices and training associated with the Catholic faith despite a government order for school heads to avoid imposing religious beliefs on students.
Speaking to Citi FM Tuesday, Reverend Osei Bonsu said students of other religious persuasions who cannot stand the rules and regulations in Catholic schools can opt out.
(Excerpt) Read more at ghanaweb.com ...
No one in San Francesspool has a right to attend a Catholic school.
Well, the man is right.
You sign up for something you need to follow the rules.
One rule for thee, and another for me:
....[John Joseph Hughes, the first Catholic archbishop of New York] immediately stirred up a war over the city’s schools, then run by the Public School Society. Though the society received state funding, it was essentially a private Protestant organization that taught Protestantism and used the Protestant Bible. Worse, from Hughes’s point of view, it had pupils read such books as The Irish Heart, which taught that “the emigration from Ireland to America of annually increasing numbers, extremely needy, and in many cases drunken and depraved, has become a subject for all our grave and fearful reflection.” Hughes (with the support of New York’s 12,000 Jews) wanted an end to such sectarian education, and he wanted, above all, state aid for Catholic schools, just as the state had funded denominational schools before 1826 (with no one dreaming of calling such aid unconstitutional). The outcome of the struggle pleased no one: the Maclay Bill of 1842 barred all religious instruction from public schools and provided no state money to denominational schools.Related threads:
-- from the online article How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish....1841 was an election year in the state of New York. Five days before the election, at a Catholic rally at Carroll Hall, [then-bishop John Joseph Hughes] presented his parishioners with a list of the candidates he favored for council and urged them to vote for them....The Constitution gave Hughes the right to advise his parishioners how to vote, but the Protestant establishment was outraged at what they saw as priestly meddling in politics. Leading the attack, James Gordon Bennett, editor of The New York Herald....Hughes's politicking paid off. All but three of the candidates he had supported were elected. In April 1842, the state passed the Maclay bill. By a majority of just one, New York's Senate voted to end religious instruction in New York's public schools....
-- excerpts from Hour Two of the PBS broadcast God In America
I fell under those rules way back in 1951 when I attended a Jesuit HS.
Attendance was even more restrictive in those days than they are now — required attendance of daily Mass, and if you don’t like it, make room for someone who does.
All this discipline went out of the window after Vatican II.
Agreed. That is why my kids are in a private Christian school and not the state school system, since I can’t stand the state’s principles.
**The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu has dared students who cannot comply with the religious rules and practices in Catholic schools to quit and move to other schools, if they so desire.**
BTTT for this Bishop.
Christian private academy grad here. My parents simply did not want us to go to public school, and both of them worked extra hard just for the tuition. That’s also why I took jobs during the summer to help out too.
I told my wife our son would lose his faith if he went to St. P. She sent him anyway. GUESS WHAT? He’s no longer Catholic.
I started Catholic school in 1960. It was tough! But we learned our Catechism, our Bible stories, our math and how to diagram a sentence. And cursive with an inkpen -no ballpoints allowed! And better not complain to Mom.
Wow! Some memory you’ve got. I only remember Sister Maria Virgo...and not in a good way, lol!
You probably get comments, like I do, how “pretty” our handwriting is.
Well, my writing has slipped and slid a little. Also, as a southpaw, the nuns were highly disapproving - although they never forced me to write with my right!
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