Obama Wants to Close Catholic Schools...

[n david]

...so say many Catholics deeply offended by a statement made in a speech by Obama in N. Ireland at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.

US President undermines Catholic schools after Vatican Prefect praised them The US President has made an alarming call for an end to Catholic education in Northern 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 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 a speech in Glasgow on Saturday and in his homily at Mass on Friday.

Archbishop Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, told an audience in Scotland that Catholic education provided a rare 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 … a critical component of the Church,’ adding that Catholic education provides young people with a wonderful opportunity to ‘grow up with Jesus.’

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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf quoted the Observer’s article on Fr. Z’s blog and added:

Another example of what this man wants: total isolation of any religious values in the private sphere alone. Pres. Obama is working either to intimidate or legislate or even TAX religious freedom out of the public square.

Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a foreign visit to a Islamic nation where he told people on his arrival that they shouldn’t have madrasas. Can you?

Did he when visiting, say, Israel, say “You Jews shouldn’t have synagogue schools and you muslims shouldn’t have mosque schools.” I can’t remember. Did he?

Each of the articles drew numerous public comments, most suggesting that Obama be more concerned about the public schools in the United States than their parochial schools, which are working just fine.

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Obama is one of the most divisive Presidents America has ever had.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by n david

...so say many Catholics deeply offended by a statement made in a speech by Obama in N. Ireland at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.



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Obama is one of the most divisive Presidents America has ever had.

The most embarrassing example of a president of the USA in history!

[n david]

On Thursday, the American Catholics for Religious Freedom fired back on President Obama’s words to 2,000 young people at the G8 Summit, stating, “President Obama’s anti-faith, secular agenda was shamefully on full display yesterday when he told the young people of Northern Ireland that Catholic education and other faith-based schools were divisive and an obstacle to peace. All Americans of faith should be outraged by these comments which clearly telegraph the President’s belief system and are in fact at their core even anti-American.”

American Catholics for Religious Freedom points out that the media has completely ignored the story, and adds, “Secular progressives like President Obama ignore the truth that faith-based education is a component of the Religious Freedom guaranteed by the Constitution. He can’t bear the thought that Catholic and parochial schools not only teach important values but consistently produce better educational results at lower cost than America’s failing public schools. The President’s troubling values are showing here in a way that demonstrate just how dangerous this Administration is and how committed it is to eroding the rights of all people of faith.”

And, they note, this is the same President who has attempted to cram down anti-Catholic doctrine via Obamacare. “It’s time Americans stood up for Religious Freedom, for the U.S. Constitution and against President Obama’s radical views about the place of faith in American life,” the group concludes.

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[ILG]

I sent this to my Catholic mother.

[n david]

Originally Posted by ILG

I sent this to my Catholic mother.

I'd be interested in her take.

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.

I don't see this as saying they should close. I do think it's a terrible anti-religious statement, and one that Christians of all faiths should be concerned about. But I don't see what others I quoted above are seeing...that they should close. I just see it as Obama being Obama. His policies are very much secular and anti-religious. From the contraception and abortion mandate in the ACA, to his admin's treatment of soldiers expressing their faith in the military, to his promoting gay marriage.

This doesn't surprise me. It's been reported many times that the Obama's don't attend church, except for rare, special occasions.

[nanoz]

Originally Posted by n david

I'd be interested in her take.



I don't see this as saying they should close. I do think it's a terrible anti-religious statement, and one that Christians of all faiths should be concerned about. But I don't see what others I quoted above are seeing...that they should close. I just see it as Obama being Obama. His policies are very much secular and anti-religious. From the contraception and abortion mandate in the ACA, to his admin's treatment of soldiers expressing their faith in the military, to his promoting gay marriage.

This doesn't surprise me. It's been reported many times that the Obama's don't attend church, except for rare, special occasions.

I agree with that. In now a days the religious education should be more emphasize as the young generation is far away from morality. I do not want them to be so religious but at least they should have little information about what they are doing.

[Nitehawk013]

Well..many Catholics voted for the idiot, so I guess they asked for this.

[deafdriscoll]

we will have to wait UNTILL HE LEAVES OFFICE to fix this.