Teach Catholicism instead

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Nov 21

RE: Halton Catholic Board delays seminar planned for Black parents.  The Hamilton Spectator 3 Nov 21.

The Black parents who balked at a seminar especially for them showed a commendable amount of common sense.  And the Halton District Catholic School Board showed too much modernism and too little Catholicism.

Between the teachings of St. Paul and the scholasticism of St. Thomas Aquinas, Catholic teaching is powerfully equipped to show rationally why racism is wrong – and why it exists.  Catholic faith begins with the fallen nature of man, and it’s man’s fallen nature that accounts for racism.  Catholic teaching can combat racism with rational argument, but given the nature of man, racism can never be eliminated.

This is why the Black parents were right to resist a seminar founded in modernism instead of Catholicism.  Patronizing and mollycoddling Black children ill-equips them to deal with the realities of life in the western world.  Whining and complaining about racism are excuses for failure, for not working hard, and not following good examples.

White parents on the other hand don’t need to hear another modernist polemic laying the blame for all the evils in the world on them.  They would however benefit from learning what their faith says about the evils man is heir to, and why and how they must be resisted.

White liberals are the bane of Black people, and it seems the Black Catholic parents in Halton spotted it and reacted.  Good for them.

The Halton board should be teaching and acting in accordance with Catholic Philosophy not modernism.

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