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Offline Maria Auxiliadora

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Pope Francis orders no conversions in Catholic schools
« on: November 21, 2015, 09:58:42 PM »
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     Pope Francis orders no conversions in Catholic schools

    A note: Some of these quotes are clunky, not due to our translation -- we translated literally. It's that Francis' thoughts, not only as they are in his head, but as they come out of his mouth, are all over the place and incomplete. But you get his drift.

    Also, and this should go without saying, but we'll say it anyway: We hate reporting this stuff. At best, it's just idiotic 1970s Jesuit nonsense. At worst, it's diabolical. But, either way, it must be kept and preserved, a record for the future so that, we pray, our children's children will never make the mistakes our recent relatives did, welcoming their own version of a "springtime" which quickly became a living Hell.

    The Pope: “No to proselytism in Catholic schools”
    Then an accusation: teachers are badly paid.
    La Repubblica
    November 21, 2015

    Vatican City:  Never proselytize in schools.  Pope Francis said this in the Paul VI Audience Hall to seven thousand participants at the World Congress on Catholic Education organized by the Congregation in charge of Catholic Education.

    "Christian education --  the Pope says  -- is not only teaching catechism and proselytizing. Never proselytize in schools. Christian education is bringing up the young in complete reality with human values and one of these [values] is transcendence. Today there is a tendency to neo-positivism, which is education in immanent things, in countries of Christian tradition as well as those of pagan tradition. We are closed to transcendence but closure is of  no use in education.”

    And once more, referring to the terrorism emergency: “The greatest temptation in wars, at times like this, are walls and the  greatest failure for an educator is  to educate inside [these] walls. We need to go to the peripheries, which is not only doing works of charity. From the peripheries reality is understood better than from the centre.  In the centre one is always covered, always defended.”

    Finally a jab at the economic treatment of teachers: “Educators are among the most badly-paid workers. What does this mean? Simply that the State isn’t interested. If it did, things wouldn’t be like this.”


    Translation: Contributor Francesca Romana
    Labels: A Vatican II Moment, Church of Vatican II, The Bergoglio Pontificate, Vatican II at 50
    Posted by Adfero. at 11/21/2015 11:39:00 PM
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    Offline JezusDeKoning

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    Pope Francis orders no conversions in Catholic schools
    « Reply #1 on: November 21, 2015, 10:05:03 PM »
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  • If Catholic schools aren't saving souls, they've lost all reason to exist.
    Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary...


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    Pope Francis orders no conversions in Catholic schools
    « Reply #2 on: November 21, 2015, 10:52:02 PM »
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  • When I attended Catholic Parochial School through High School 100% of
    the Students were 100% Roman Catholic's. And the tuition was only
    $5.00 a month.

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    Pope Francis orders no conversions in Catholic schools
    « Reply #3 on: November 21, 2015, 11:17:15 PM »
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  • Then an accusation: teachers are badly paid.

    Are good teachers ever paid enough?