THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE

 THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION: A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE

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MINDSZENTY REPORT, SEP. 2020 - CARDINAL MINDSZENTY FOUNDATION, VOL. LXII-NO. 9

"WHAT CATHOLIC CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT"

 

      "We are experiencing in America today a cultural revolution which has been long in the works. This cultural revolution is occurring on many fronts, primarily based on race. Words like "white privilege" have replaced older concepts such as equality of opportunity and equality under the law. Noble struggles to end racial segregation have given way to new forms of segregation into racial identity groups, especially seen on college campuses.

 

    In nearly every large company, state agency, and educational institution, people are undergoing mandatory racial courses.  These courses are less about racial sensitivity than about propaganda that "systematic racism" is embodied in U.S. history, culture and institutions, and in being born white.

 

    As the historian Victor Davis Hanson observed recently, "cultural revolutions are insidious and not because they seek to change the way people think, speak and act. They are also dangerous because they are fueled by self-righteous sanctimoniousness, expressed in seemingly innocuous terms such as 'social activism,' 'equality,' and 'fairness,'" The current cultural revolution seeks to change fundamental American values and institutions.

    Cultural revolutionaries need to confronted by active citizens who bring their voices to school boards, city councils, university administrators, and state legislatures funding the revolutionaries. Corporations and foundations funding this revolution should be called out. Parents must be willing to withdraw their children from schools and teachers trying to indoctrinate their children. This may mean education their children through charter schools, homeschooling or religious schools. 

 

    The cultural left's grip on educational institutions has resulted in the capture of the minds of many of our youth, yet not all is lost.. As Jay Sakhalin, writing in American Thinker, notes, conservatives have countered the left in recent decades with the formation of hundred of think thanks, pressure groups and citizens' organizations. At the same time, alternative educational institutions have sprung up. 

    Students attending charger schools increased nearly sevenfold from 2000 to 2015, from about 400,000 to more than 2.7 million. Homeschooling has increased as well. Many young parents are withdrawing their children from public schools and placing them in Catholic or Christian schools.

    Seeing many of our youth turning to socialism, tearing down statues and expressing unpatriotic attitudes, concerned Americans are calling for the re institution of civics and history courses. Simply requiring these courses won't, however, fully address their content. Teachers having undergone indoctrination themselves will turn mandated civics and history courses into social justice propaganda.

RESISTING COUNTER-CULTURE

    Catholic education presents another challenge. Catholic schools generally offer religion classes, many of which emphasize social justice. As Christians, Catholics believe in the importance of social justice. Jesus taught that God gave us the gift of life and all humans are equal in the eyes of the world. We are our brothers' and sisters' keepers. But in the midst of the cultural revolution in which Christianity itself is under attack and Catholics are especially targeted, Catholic schools need to step the fight.

 

    Religious education must impart more than abstract principles, important as they are. Faith should be reinforced so our children an resist the left-wing popular culture created in the last half century. Our youth in Catholic schools rarely hear of examples of those who stood up to the forces of evil, often at the sacrifice of their own lives. Teaching about martyrs and saints personifies and reinforces 

faith.... "(Edith Stein, Miguel Pro, Maximilian Kolbe, Ignatius Kung, and Venerable Cardinal Mindszenty)

George H. Kubeck

    "Catholics are completely unprepared with this culture of death Marxism interpretation of American History. Prevention is worth a pound of cure. At least for four more years, one must vote in Nov. against the political party that is sympathetic with this socialist cultural revolution." ghk