[Polycarp IV]

It is not a sin, of any kind, to send children to public schools. That is absurd on its face, Brian.

Sorry Sink, it ain't absurd, unless Leo XII, Pius IX, and Pius XI are now absurd in your view.

NOTHING has changed since their day to change the Truth of their exhortations, has it? What modern circumstances make their points universally 100% wrong?

It CAN BE a sin to send children to public schools, in some circumstances, regardless of your opinion. What is absurd is your blanket statement, in defiance of multiple Papal proclamations otherwise, that it can not ever be sinful.

[Siobhan]

What is absurd is your blanket statement, in defiance of multiple Papal proclamations otherwise, that it can not ever be sinful.

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[Tantumergo]

"NOTHING has changed since their day to change the Truth of their exhortations, has it? What modern circumstances make their points universally 100% wrong?"

I would not say that their points are 100% universally wrong, but things HAVE CHANGED BIG TIME since their day.

I refuse to send my children to Catholic schools (not that we have any close enough to make it feasible at the moment anyway!) because they have become dens of modernism and communism.

According to the UK's Catholic Education Service the lapsation rate of kids leaving Catholic Schools is 92%. ONLY 8% STILL PRACTICE THEIR FAITH AT THE AGE OF 16. And yet they continue to pump the same tired old experience-based, child-centred catechesis on them that has produced these damnable results.

In contrast 32% of Catholic children in State schools are still practicing at the age of 16.

The teaching of the pre-Conciliar Popes was valid in an age when Catholic education was Catholic - I doubt they could ever have believed that so many "Catholic" schools could have become vehicles for destroying children's faith as is the case now.