{"id":5768,"date":"2013-06-20T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2013-06-20T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T09:03:07","slug":"obama-makes-an-alarming-call-to-end-catholic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"Obama makes ‘an alarming call to end Catholic education’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"barackvatican\"<\/a>The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama made what is described as \u201can alarming call for an end to Catholic education,\u201d in spite of the fact that it is considered \u201ca critical component of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

In front of an audience of about 2,000 young people, including many Catholics, Obama claimed that Catholic education divides people and blocks peace, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf towns remain divided\u2014if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can\u2019t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden\u2014that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n

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Catholic World News noted:<\/p>\n

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Ironically, President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard M\u00fcller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person. Archbishop M\u00fcller said that Catholic schools should promote \u201call that is good in the philosophies of societies and human culture.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf quoted the Observer\u2019s article on Fr. Z\u2019s blog<\/a> and added:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Off the top of my head, I can\u2019t think of a foreign visit to a Islamic nation where he told people on his arrival that they shouldn\u2019t have madrasas.\u00a0 Can you?<\/p>\n

Did he when visiting, say, Israel, say \u201cYou Jews shouldn\u2019t have synagogue schools and you muslims shouldn\u2019t have mosque schools.\u201d\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember.\u00a0 Did he?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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,\u00a0which are working just fine. – bizpacreview.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama made what is described as \u201can alarming call for an end to Catholic education,\u201d in spite of the fact that it is considered \u201ca critical component of the Church.\u201d In front … Continue reading “Obama makes ‘an alarming call to end Catholic education’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,10,123],"tags":[3329,90],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-catholics","tag-obama"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/barackvatican.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}