Catholic girls wearing hijabs in mosque
Posted on 06/01/2026 5:49:47 PM PDT by ebb tide
Catholic girls wearing hijabs in mosque
Catholic schoolgirls in Australia visited two mosques and two Hindu temples as part of a field trip inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti.
Tenth grade students at Star of the Sea College in the Melbourne suburb of Gardenvale “explored” the supposed “importance of dialogue, understanding, and human fraternity across religious traditions,” the school shared in an Instagram page caption, along with a picture of the students, all wearing hijabs, at a mosque.
The “Interfaith Reflection Day” took the girls first to Hindu temples, “including the Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple and Hare Krishna Melbourne (ISKCON) Temple, where they learned about Hindu spirituality, rituals, and traditions.”
Pictures posted to Instagram show the schoolgirls standing in a circle and wearing flower necklaces inside a Hindu temple, holding hands and then appearing to take part in a Hindu ritual.
The school’s Instagram post shares a quote from Fratelli Tutti: “Dialogue, perseverance and trust are words that deserve to be lifted up as signs of peace.”
The schoolgirls’ visit is apparently designed to teach them about Hinduism from the perspective of its adherents, portraying it as a benign and harmless religion. However, this is far from the truth, as taught by the Catholic Church. By paying homage to false gods, Hinduism commits the grave offense of idolatry against the one true God.
Because it worships false gods, Hinduism in fact pays homage to demons, as both the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures affirm:
“For all the gods of the Gentiles are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.” (Ps. 95:5)
“But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.” (1 Cor. 10:19-20)
Famous exorcist and theologian Father Chad Ripperger has even testified that the Hindu practice of yoga, by representing Eastern deities with the body, can act as a gateway to possession.
Star of the Sea College shared that “In the afternoon, students engaged with female speakers at the Keysborough Turkish Islamic & Cultural Centre and Emir Sultan Mosque, gaining valuable insight into the experiences, beliefs, and perspectives of Muslim communities in Australia.”
As in the case of the visit to the Hindu temples, no mention was made of learning the Catholic understanding of Islam, to clarify the truth about the religion.
Learning about Islam as another “benign” religion is also contrary to the truth, per Catholic teaching, primarily because Islam rejects the revealed truth about God. Muslims reject the Holy Trinity and deny that Jesus Christ is God. Their main religious book, the Quran, also encourages violence against non-Muslims.
According to the school’s Instagram post, “The day concluded with a time of reflection in the Star Chapel, encouraging students to consider how respect, compassion, and encounter can build stronger relationships within our diverse world.” Again, no mention was made of how these religions reject the truth as expressed through the Catholic Church.
The document that “guided” the field trip, Fratelli Tutti, promotes a religious indifferentism reflected in the schoolgirls’ visit, despite the fact that this runs counter to Catholic teaching. Francis suggested in the encyclical that adherents of all different religions are beneficial to society: “We, the believers of the different religions, know that our witness to God benefits our societies,” he wrote. Echoing Vatican II documents, he also wrote that “the Church esteems the way God works in other religions.”
A Catholic parent in Melbourne expressed concern to LifeSiteNews about the message the field trip sent to the schoolgirls and the supposedly Catholic formation that they were receiving.
“As a Catholic parent who strives to remain faithful to the Church’s traditional teachings, I find it deeply troubling that a Catholic educational institution appears to be presenting non-Christian religions in this manner as part of students’ faith formation,” the parent wrote in an email.
“While learning about other religions is one thing, organised visits to places of worship and participation in interfaith programmes raise serious questions about the Catholic identity of the school and the formation being given to students,” she added.
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Don’t listen to heretics. Tutti Fruity? What a fag. Just like the current one.
This is anathema. No girl of any ethnicity or religious persuasion should be asked to wear a hijab for any reason. They are a symbol of dehuminazion and oppression. Filth to corrode the soul. Our children should not be exposed to that kind of evil nor should it be normalized.
Did Muslim girls dress up like Catholic schoolgirls?
Did Muslim girls dress up like Catholic schoolgirls?
You have to respect their cult but they respect NO ONE’S Religion
To be fair to the girls, they don’t want to be raped or tortured.
Despicable.
A long time ago in my confirmation class, the priest said we were forbidden to go inside “Mosques and other pagan places of worship like Hindu or Buddhist Temples” as that could be construed as approval of the evil that lay within.
How far our standards have fallen.
If they respected the Catholic school girl’s religion the girls would have to bow down and WEAR A HEAD SCARF
Catholic girls: We can't eat pork either ... on Fridays.
Leftist Catholic leaders: See? We're all the same.
“To be fair to the girls, they don’t want to be raped or tortured.”
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Nailed it!!!
Did they tell the girls that they would be raped within minutes of arriving in a muzzy country?
“approval of the evil that lay within”
Evil? Ideas like this drove me out of the Catholic Church. Along with the apartments on nearby Catholic university campus for defrocked gay priests.
If God is Love, why did I hear, day after day even in Kindergarten “Your going to hell for that” and “God will punish you for that. “
God was the mean old man in the sky who hated me. Took decades for me to find a loving God, and it wasn’t in a Catholic church.
I was reminded that if I went to services on Sunday with a Protestant friend and their family (sleepovers in HS) that my obligation wasn’t fulfilled. Had to leave early on Sundays so I could get to the last Mass at my parish.
This is anathema. No girl of any ethnicity or religious persuasion should be asked to wear a hijab for any reason. They are a symbol of dehuminazion and oppression. Filth to corrode the soul. Our children should not be exposed to that kind of evil nor should it be normalized.
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Just one more piece of the rotten fruit of the Second Vatican Council that has now resulted in the replacement of the RCC with the Synodal Church established by Satan and his minions in the Vatican. Sincere and devout Catholics are now being used as pawns by Satan’s Servants in the Vatican. See Revelation 18:4-8 which speaks directly of such heretical disorder.
Pandering to muslim scum.
Who can blame these young girls when the current pope enters a mosque and removes his shoes as a sign of respect?
Pope Leo described the mosque as "a place that represents the space that is of God; a divine, sacred space where so many people come to pray in order to find the presence of the Most High, of God, in their lives."
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