Social Justice ten times better than God

Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, 02 October 2005 02:17.

Every month I get a magazine from my old school, Xavier College, which is the leading Catholic private school here in Melbourne.

Up to now, I’ve been uncertain whether I want to send my own son to Xavier. But the latest school magazine has made the decision easy. He won’t be going.

The latest magazine shows all too clearly how far the school has drifted away from Catholicism into a modernist, secularised liberalism. In fact, going by the magazine the school has dropped religion altogether in favour of a new kind of cult called “social justice”.

Bear with me on this - you’ll soon see why I make this claim. Here are the contents of the September issue.

p.2 “Social justice and Society” - an article about the need to “dismantle the structures of social injustice” to create an egalitarian society, in particular by creating equal access to education.
p.3 An article which calls both for social justice and for more government funding for Xavier.
p 4. & 5 school events
p.6 Speech by social worker on social justice
p.7 Article by Xavier’s “Social Justice Co-ordinator” (they can afford one of these!) on the formation of a Xavier Social Justice Network
p.9 & 10 school play
p.11 article about students “exploring social justice” - including speech by Sudanese refugee
p.12 junior school play
p.13 Maori haka and African dances performed at school
p.15 East Timor sister school
p.14 Aboriginal reconciliation week and planting of “indigenous” garden for students to reflect on “original custodians”

In all, “social justice” is mentioned 20 times in eight articles having to do with equity and multiculturalism. In comparison, God only gets a mention twice, and each time in a cursory way to support the political agenda.

There is nothing at all in the magazine to indicate that Xavier is a Catholic school, or that questions of individual character or moral integrity or manliness or the study of Western culture or the defence of worthy tradition are considered important by the school.

I think I can do better for my son elsewhere.

Tags: Christianity

Comments:

Posted by TRI on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:48 | #

Excellent decision.

This has long been in place. I had a Maori come in to do a Haka 20 years ago at my Catholic school twenty years ago.

No, we learned good Marxist values at my school. I can even remember reading a book IN THEIR LIBRARY, basically a propaganda piece against Catholicism. In the story a Christian boy has a horrible mother and step father who used to beat him, because… he said that Jesus Christ was a Jew.

Can anyone name the book? I’d love to be able to remember what it was called.

Posted by TRI on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:49 | #

As they say, Preview is for Cwoards.

Posted by Geoff Beck on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:56 | #

Mark,

Are you familiar with the Tridentine Mass, or old Latin Mass? In the US there is movement among traditionaly minded Catholics to return to a pre-Vatican II style of Catholicism.

I visited a Latin Mass church recently and it was full of people. They also have their own elementary school featuring mandatory prayer and religious instruction, silence in hallways during class changes, uniforms, Latin language training and etc… but of course nothing like a university for they have been totally corrupted just like in Australia.

Posted by Andrew L on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:00 | #

Is Victoria that Polarised that people can no longer complaine about the garbage. Close the place down, and lobby it out of existance,I guarantee the Islamic schools would not give a stuff about liberalism. It is bad enough when Government spocered Brainwashing takes place, but in a supposid defined institution such as a Church, “No Supprise”. shut the place down and kick them out of the picture, along with the Islamic school’s.It makes you blood boil, I have a ( 9 year and an 11 year old in Private schools.If I differ with what is being tought, I complain and submitt the correct infomation. Other parents do the same,as we do with the parish priest when he waffels on about liberalism, we win they loose,Parents draw the line and if it is crossed , look out.Education not inductrination, Those apparatchiks of Subjective brainwashing should be ^^^^^^^? Unemployed and out of the picture.We as Parents have to make it so.

Posted by Mark Richardson on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:03 | #

Geoff, there are two such Tridentine communities in Melbourne, but both a long way from where I live.

One good thing I know about them is that they have kept out the worst aspects of feminism. The women are very family-oriented, marry in their 20s and have relatively large families.

I’m not aware of them running any schools.

Posted by Geoff Beck on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:05 | #

This is the Padre Pio school, in my ‘neck of the woods,’ as we say around here: http://www.padrepioacademy.org/

Posted by AD on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:14 | #

I went to a well known Catholic school in Sydney, they were teaching similar stuff when i left a decade or so ago.I assume it’s similar at the Anglican schools and worse at public.I would be happy with a maths + science curriculum for my kids at school, then homeschooling for English Lit/History/Social Studies.I have 3 years to decide and find something decent in Tassie.

The Jehovahs Witnesses have their own homeschooling networks, i’d love for us to have our own someday(hopefully within 3 years).

Posted by Mark Richardson on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:19 | #

Geoff, now that’s a real Catholic school!

I found the web site of another worthwhile sounding private school recently, Carroll Academy in Mississippi.

According to the school’s home page, its mission is as follows:

“Carroll Academy strives to lead students to develop skills and knowledge in the Arts and Sciences and to develop an understanding of their privileges and responsibilities in relation to their family, community, state, nation, and God.”

http://www.carrollacademy.org/

Posted by Andrew L on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:27 | #

Ad , Tassi, I do’nt no about that, they are in the same boat as Victoria, what Vic does Tassi is holding it’s hand. I have a brother down there, Extream Right wing, and a sister in Hobart extream left wing, so best of luck, Lovely place to live, but PC capitol next to Victoria, and a favoured destination next to SA for Sudanees, Just do’nt get sick or need medical attention, it’s full of refugee’s.

Posted by Geoff Beck on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 05:05 | #

Mark,

> Geoff, now that’s a real Catholic school!

I’m considering sending my children there, though I would like to give homeschooling a try. BTW, I was raised Presbyterian, though I now consider Protestantism worse than dead, but a puppet to be manipulated by the State and popular fads.

Posted by Stuart Dickson on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:13 | #

Unfortunately today’s ubiquitous social-Marxism is simply Christianity minus the spooks. So many Leftists have their ideological roots in Christianity and many of the rest adhere to that effeminate doctrine’s baneful Jewish root religion.

Posted by Svigor on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:28 | #

In comparison, God only gets a mention twice, and each time in a cursory way to support the political agenda.

Personally I no longer find mention of God a meaningful metric of Christianity; it’s a metric of Judeochristianity.

Ever notice that? On the rare occasions religious expression is allowed to whites in the public sphere, Christ is almost never mentioned. Every time I hear his name there it’s shocking to me.

How often does Bush, our “Christian fanatic” president mention Christ? He’s a Judeochristian, just like the rest of the lot.

On the other hand, Christ-as-curse is just fine; that’s where our media masters approve of his name.

I’m only culturally Christian, but this burns me right up. I can only imagine how pissed I would be about it if I believed in the religious aspects.

Posted by Amon on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:25 | #

Brown alum magazine, July/August 2005:

p.1 picture of Bill Clinton waving
p.12-13 “Clinton Comes to Campus”
p.20-21 tons of blacks in cap and gown. one’s dressed in some african clothes
p.22 quote: “It’s possible for someone to be politically incorrect. It’s also possible for someone to be incorrect. (This refers to the Larry Summers controversy. Of course, they don’t bother to refute his argument.)
p.26 negro standing in front of a crowd
p.28-33 “The New Organic”: about how biotechnology is evil and about some college student’s project to get more colleges to buy from local farms
p.64 - three blacks, two of whom are in african dress
p.69-two asians and a black
p.73-an indian, two asians, and a white all huddled together pretending to be friends
p.75-three black women at the front of a crowd

Posted by R J Stove on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:03 | #

Message for Mark Richardson: you may well already know about this school (in rural Victoria) but if you don’t, here is a link for it. The school is a traditional Catholic one, allows only the Tridentine Latin Mass, and expects its kids to have a firm knowledge of the old catechism.

http://www.stac.vic.edu.au/

For reasons wholly irrelevant to this website, I no longer attend this particular religious order’s Latin Masses save when I can attend no other such Masses; but I salute the order’s work.

Posted by Mark Richardson on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:30 | #

Rob, thanks for the link. It’s a little too far away from me, but I’m glad to see the school is growing.

Posted by rocket on Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:05 | #

there is not 2 gosples according to the new testament . there is only one . Paul refered to the ‘‘whole council of God ‘’ . this includes ‘‘corporate works of mercy ‘’ , along with evangilism , prayer , holy communion , etc . you know the list.
Bishop fulton sheehan said ‘’ to take the Eucharist , and not to serve Christ in others makes one a parasite on the body of Christ’‘. there you have it . you say that social justice is better than God . you are in error . it is an expression of God living in the believer. anything short of that is a false gospel , and when Christ seperates the sheep from the goats on judgement day , he will say like he did in Matthew 25 ‘‘i was hungry and you did not feed me , a prisoner and you did not visit me ...etc .. depart from me into eternal hell prepared for the devil and his angels . you thin k the gospel of social justice is optional . your betting you eternal soul on it . good luck my freind .