The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06
ParochtaI Schools,


AS true education does not exist in
the public schools, and is not fully
taught in the home or in the Church.
reason and experience manifest that
the practical means of securing a
Christian and Catholic people is
Christian and Catholic education in
the parochial schools. To shut relig-
ion out of the school is to bring up a
generation that will consider religion
useless for the practical business of
| life and to breed creedless men and
women. Well do the enemies of our
holy religion understand such pro-
cedure. Some countries of Europe are
banishing religion from the school
room, in order to eliminate 1t gradu-
ally from the people. To preserve,
Therefore, our holy religion among the
people, the wise and eff1cacious meth
cd is to teach it in the school; other
wise people will consider one religion
as good as another and infidelity will
gain the ascendance. The first plen.
larry Council Of Baltimore exhorts Bish.
Tops to have a Catholic school in. each
parish; while the second plenary
Council DEGREES that schools should be
Ierected in every parish; and the third
plenary Council DEGREES that parish
schools should be established in all
parishes, unless the condition were
lsuch as to render school impossible
| The new schools should be opened
within two years and the pastor
should be removed, IL a school were
mot established when possible. The
Church, who maintains that intellec
tual education must not be separated
from moral and religious education
claims the right to educate her chill
dren and condemns every system ex.
Guiding religion Without the Catho
lie school, where the future parish.
toner's must receive their training, lit
tile can be accomplished for the spir.
itual welfare and indirectly for the
material welfare of the coming gen.
Grafton. In promoting the spiritual
welfare of the people, the Church
tdoes more for human industry than
any human system, for thereby she
makes the people religious, conscien.
uous, virtuous, sober. painstaking,
honest and industrious. Catholic edu'
cation has existed some twenty centu'
ries and humanity speaking one of the
chief causes of the Church's strength
is her educational care Of her chill.
ldren.
Long since the Holy See decreed
that parish schools and other educa-
ltional institutions, under the direction
OF the Bishops, were necessary for
Catholic youth. Catholic education
Indeed, constitutes an essential fac.
tor in the work of religion, an integ-
raj part of the mission of the Church
land the conservatory Of faith and
morals. The Catholic school must be
regarded an essential part Of the par.
fish. the most important place after
the Church and the training ground
Iof Catholicity. No parish is complete
without a school. Neither pastor nor
people have done their full duty, I'm.
less the parish possesses a Catholic
Ischool, it being the important factor
in training our children in our holy
lreligion. A Cathode school education
considers the child a supernatural be.
ling, with supernatural destiny, com.
lposed not only of body and brains
but also possessing an immortal soul
Civilization requires not only physi
Ical, intellectual, but also religious and
moral culture, for to impart knowl
ledge without building up moral char.
Iacter, is fatal both to the individual
land to society. The school, in union
with the home. practically moulds the
flexible soul of the child. shapes the
Icharacter of the citizen and deter.
lmines the character OF the nation
The future homes of the children OF
to-day viii be characterized chiefly BY