{"id":4826,"date":"2006-05-30T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/05\/30\/too-catholic-2\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T14:49:31","slug":"too-catholic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/05\/too-catholic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">We often get stories about Catholic schools and how they have<br \/>\ndeviated from the faith in what I call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/archives\/006176.php\">Catholic<br \/>\nIdentity Theft<\/a>. So it is not<br \/>\noften you see a story with a headline &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsshopper.co.uk\/display.var.775852.0.college_too_catholic.php\">College<br \/>\ntoo Catholic<\/a>.&quot; In fact this is the first one I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">STUDENTS at Bexley&#8217;s first sixth form college are in revolt because<br \/>\nthey claim their Roman Catholic college is too Catholic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Nearly a third of the students at St Luke&#8217;s College, Chislehurst<br \/>\nRoad, Sidcup, have protested to headteacher Maria Williams, likening practices<br \/>\nat the college<br \/>\nto &quot;fanatical religious cults&quot;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The 16 to 18-year-olds claim they are forced to attend &quot;evangelical talks&quot; expressing<br \/>\npuritanical views on subjects such as chastity and homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">They say they were made to walk around the school field carrying<br \/>\na statue of the Virgin Mary singing hymns and have been hauled into the principal&#8217;s<br \/>\noffice for holding hands off college premises and told they were a &quot;disgrace&quot;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I can&#8217;t believe I enrolled at a Catholic school and then actually<br \/>\nhad to be involved in a procession. Unbelievably they even try to preach the<br \/>\nGospel to us and the truths of the Catholic faith. I mean a Catholic schools<br \/>\nbeing Catholic is not what we signed up for. Why can&#8217;t our school be like so<br \/>\nmany other Catholic schools, I mean it&#8217;s not fair!<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Another student said: &quot;Although we accepted by going to<br \/>\na Catholic college we would be signing up to the Catholic ethos, we had no<br \/>\nidea we were also joining an institution which embraced many values present<br \/>\nwithin many fanatical religous cults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">One of their complaints is about a mandatory talk given at the<br \/>\nschool by Barbara McGuigan. She is the host of EWTN&#8217;s Open Line on Tuesdays<br \/>\nand founder of Voice of Virtue International. I listen to her shows and she<br \/>\nis wonderfully pro-life, a good speaker, and able to talk on the issue with<br \/>\nclarity and charity. I guess these truths were just too much for some students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often get stories about Catholic schools and how they have deviated from the faith in what I call Catholic Identity Theft. So it is not often you see a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}