A number of studies (2005 and 2010) show that young people who attend Catholic Colleges and Universities are more likely to lose their faith than increase it. No surprise. Fulton Sheen warned parents years ago to send their children to secular schools where they would have to fight for the faith rather than Catholic schools where their faith would be taken from them. Unfortunately, there is little choice these days because the secular universities have become so pagan that the negative impact at secular universities is even greater.
Here's one of those "Catholic" schools betraying the faith and indoctrinating students in the cult of the world. (Thanks for forwarding the email, Gary!) Detroit Mercy's treachery is an old story. But the unmitigated gall of publicly listing Planned Parenthood and NOW as career resources on a Catholic college's website is astounding.
The Les Femmes newsletter has a number of items in the Twilight Zone over the years about Catholic college scandals. You can check out a few here and here. We don't relish admitting what Judases most Catholic schools are, but parents have a right to know before they shell out big bucks for a so-called Catholic education.
So what's a parent to do? I think there are two possibilities. If you can afford the cost, send kids to one of the few solid Catholic schools around the country. If you can't afford that or if they don't offer the specialized training in science or engineering, for example, send your kids to local community colleges for at least two years. That gives them a chance to be exposed to hedonism and challenges to beliefs while still living in the protective environment of the home. Help them develop critical thinking skills and discuss the challenges they will experience including those to their faith. If they go on to big universities later, they'll be two years older and smarter and perhaps less likely to succumb to the party school pagan wildness.
You might also consider some of the Christian boot camp programs to prepare students to face the challenges of college life. Unfortunately, most are protestant. I wish the Catholic church had something similar to Focus on the Family's Leadership Camp. Knowing the challenges beforehand helps kids prepare and strengthen their resolve to live according to their principles.
Life is difficult for young people today, but with help they can maneuver the rocky coastline to principled adulthood.
The schools of the Archdiocese of Baltimore are undergoing a major reorganization and consolidation. Scandalously, one of the priest-members of the 'blue ribbon' committee charged with making these difficult decisions openly rejects crucial aspects of Catholic moral teachings. He, along with another archdiocesan priest, is a member of the board of New Ways Ministry, a homosexualist group encouraging Catholics to reject and openly violate Church teachings on sexual morality. If this sort of person is making decisions about putatively Catholic schools, no parent should automatically assume that these schools teach orthodox moral principles. See this link: http://www.newwaysministry.org/board.html
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