Posted on 10/12/2012 5:59:09 PM PDT by annalex
True, and therefore the minister of education wants to take the school away from the Church. Revolutions started for lesser usurpations.
Yes, that is the fundamental problem. But as you see in Post 36 a country could have publicly funded schools yet teach the right doctrine, and it is in fact the Canadian system. The minister of "education" wants to break the law as written.
So what came of it?
"Conservative" is not a meaningful term when it comes to elected officials.
Right, so the choice for the Church is clear: to teach clear doctrine, disobey the minister and her jackbooted government, and go underground if necessary. They should not, however, push for privatization of Catholic Schools in isolation from a broad reform of taxation and school control for all schools.
Good question. Generally, where are the bishops of the Church on this?
I think they should begin, in addition to the pro-life doctrines, to teach that the democratic process is no guarantee of usurpation of power, and that a Catholic is obligated to resist unjust laws no matter who and under what lawmaking procedure promulgated them.
Thank you very mush for the substantive post.
Yes. What is really needed is a revolution, and not only in Canada. But the first step is in realizing who the enemy is, and stop treating the government as universally legitimate. Increasingly, modern governments in industrial democracies work in direct opposition to natural rights. Their mandate should not be respected when they do.
It’s often said in situations liek this one: Well, the school will not be Catholic if it obeys. That is true, but another part is true as well: that minister is no longer a legitimate minister.
I am not sure we the US Americans are prepared to take our Catholicism seriously. However, there is a certain culture of docility in Canada (except in Quebec) which makes their government meaner and more arrogant. Who knows? We all are due for a paradigm shift in the civil society, in Americas and in Europe.
Well, it does. Your perception of what I think is incorrect. I simply look at the reality in Canada and I recognize that the Canadian type of social contract is different than in the US: the Canadians are tolerant of elements of socialism perhaps because of the different historical experience and harsh climate.
I think that we have a patient who has a cancer and also a heart attack. The threat of a government mandate to teach government pro-death doctrine is a heart attack and the idea that the government has a role to play in education is cancer. You treat the heart attack first because if you don't, you die. But you should also treat the cancer. What I am against is mixing up the two problems, because then you end up treating neither one.
I think they backed down, but I’m not sure
Ontario bishops’ response to Bill 13 passage not exactly a trumpet blast
We don’t know what is going on among the priests. There may be, I guess, more than one willing to teach the truth underground.
But what we definitely don’t have is courage among the bishops.
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