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The economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic have forced a number of Catholic schools in the United States to close. Nora Kenney joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss.
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Catholic schools have not been Catholic for a generation, even when nuns (often materialist rebels) are involved. That’s why Catholic school enrollment has declined. Their instruction and practices are nearly identical to secular schools, only with decorations advertising a Christian past.
The bishops are to blame. Not even Pope Benedict XVI proposed consequences for failure to communicate Catholic ideas. He only demanded teachers at Catholic schools claim to respect Catholicism, per their usual lip service.
Not even parish priests communicate the politically incorrect assertions of the Church, like opposition to homosexual unions. Pope Francis abandoned Chinese Catholics to their atheist oppressors. The Church is withering in most of the world because shepherds and sheep alike have been assimilated into anti-Christian fashions. Pray that her courage will be renewed.