Bishop: ‘Some schools Catholic in name only’
The Bishop of Lancaster Michael Campbell
THE Catholic church should consider ending its ties with schools that are now “Catholic in name only”, the Bishop of Lancaster has said.
The Rt Rev Michael Campbell asked if it was right for parishioners to continue paying for the upkeep of schools where the majority of pupils and teachers belong to other faiths or none.
In his New Year’s pastoral letter to parishes, Bishop Michael said faith schools are meant to help the church in its mission of evangelisation.
“The hierarchies of both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England have been accused of trying to make their schools more secular by relaxing admissions rules for the less devout,” he said.
See the Lancaster Guardian (12-01-12) for full story.
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lancasterveteran
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 06:38 AMGood! Let's see the back of this ridiculous situation where, as the bishop freely admits, schools are being used to promote religion (of the catholic variety) to children. Our children deserve to be brought up as freethinkers who will be able to decide things for themselves and should absolutely not be used as targets for indoctrination into any particular dogma. Schools should be about education and the sooner that the perversities and idiosyncrasies of catholic dogma are exorcised from schools' working practices the better. Education should be a right and those who would manipulator children to further their own agenda should rightfully be shown the door.
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