“[N]ot consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” Hmm. My latest in PJ Media:
Last Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported:
[T]he Catholic diocese of Orlando, Florida, says it has reprimanded a teacher at a Catholic school in the state for giving his sixth-grade religion class an anti-Muslim reading assignment.
The Huffington Post expresses a negative view of the teacher, Mark Smythe of Blessed Trinity Catholic School in Ocala, who the article says gave students a handout that called Muhammad’s teachings “ridiculous, immoral and corrupting.” Smythe must have been passing on material from “Islamophobic” websites, no?
Actually, Smythe’s handout was entirely quoting the words of Catholic saint Giovanni Bosco. Nevertheless, Jacquelyn Flanigan — associate superintendent at the Diocese of Orlando — said this about the incident:
The information provided in the sixth grade class is not consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Flanagan didn’t explain how her statement comported with the author of the material having been a Catholic saint. If Bosco was spreading ideas that were “not consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church,” how did he become a saint? Why didn’t his disrespectful, hateful teachings about Islam prevent his canonization?
Or have the “teachings of the Catholic Church” changed? Catholicism declares that only divinely revealed dogmas are immutable. If the Church’s teaching on Islam has changed, then we are discussing mere human opinion, on which there can be disagreement. Correct?
[She] pointed to Nostra Aetate, an official Vatican document Pope Paul VI released on Oct. 28, 1965. It stated that the Catholic Church regards Muslims “with esteem” and urged Catholics to work with Muslims for peace and social justice.
Does the necessity to regard Muslims with esteem require that Catholics must not speak about the elements of Islam that are use to justify violence — including the rampant global persecution of Christians?
About Giovanni Bosco’s document, we are further told:
Muhammad is described as a “charlatan,” “villain,” “ignoramus,” “imposter” and “false prophet” who “couldn’t even write” and “propagated his religion, not through miracles or persuasive words, but by military force.” The Quran, the holy book of Islam, is also called “a series of errors, the most enormous ones being against morality and the worship of the true God.”
This is strong and pejorative language. Where did St. John Bosco get ideas that are so “inconsistent” with Catholic teaching?
The Huffington Post, of course, takes it for granted that Don Bosco’s claims are simply false and hateful. But is there actually a case to be made that Islam spread through force? Is there a case to be made that Islamic morality is decisively different from Christian morality?
Can there be any discussion of this at all, or is all dissent from the charge that St. John Bosco’s claims are false to be punished and silenced?
The Huffington Post also reports the following:
Jordan Denari Duffner, a Catholic research fellow at Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative who studies Islamophobia, said it’s not uncommon for people on some conservative websites to selectively cite centuries-old anti-Muslim texts written by Catholic scholars and saints.
Here, the Huffington Post doesn’t bother to report that the Bridge Initiative is a Saudi-funded project.
The Bridge Initiative attempts to stigmatize, and thus to silence, all critical speech about Islam, which would have the effect of enabling the global jihad to advance without a murmur of protest or resistance. The very word “Islamophobia” is a propaganda term designed to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror….
Lionel Andrades says
May 6, 2017
If the administration of the Orlando school interprets magisterial documents with Cushingism they should clarify it : deception should not be made obligatory for all Catholics
Catholic Teacher May Lose Job for Saints’ Writings Critical of IslamMark Smythe, the sixth-grade religion and social studies teacher at Blessed Trinity Catholic School in the Orlando diocese,Florida,USA must ask the school to clarify their position on Islam .Do they accept magisterial documents of the Catholic Church interpreted with a rational theology? Otherwise it is unethical for the school to call itself Catholic.It is the Holy Spirit who gudies the Church and decides what are our beliefs – not Satan and the Left.
MUSLIMS ARE ORIENTED TO HELL ACCORDING TO VATICAN COUNCIL II
According to Vatican Council II ‘ all’ need ‘faith and baptism’ for ‘salvation’.Muslims do not have it. So they are oriented to the fires of Hell, unless they convert into the Church as members.They need Catholic faith, which includes the Sacraments and the faith and moral teachings of the Church.Mohammad did not have it.So according to Vatican Council II he is lost forever.The ordinary means of salvation is ‘faith and baptism’.Mark Smythe could ask the Blessed Trinity Catholic School to affirm this as Catholics.
VATICAN COUNCIL II IS IN HARMONY WITH THE DOGMA EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS
Vatican Council II(Ad Gentes 7, Lumen Gentium 14) is in harmony with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS) defined by three Church Councils.So the Council is also in harmony with the popes and saints on Islamism, including St. John Bosco.Vatican Council II is not a rupture with the dogma EENS as it was known to the 16th century missionaries.Mark Smythe could ask the administrator of the school to recognise this officially or not call themself Catholic.According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church(1257) the Church knows of no means to eternal beatitude other than the baptism of water. The Catechism tells us all Muslims are going to Hell,where Mohammad precedes them. Since they are not members of the Catholic Church.
God the Father wants all people to be united into the Catholic Church. The Church is the only Ark of Noah that saves in the Flood(CCC 845).The Church does not know any one in 2017 who will be saved, or is saved,because ‘God is not limited to the Sacraments'( CCC 1257). The Church does not know and cannot know anyone in 2017 saved without the baptism of water and instead with the baptism of desire,blood, invincible ignorance or a good conscience.
THE ORDINARY MEANS OF SALVATION IS FAITH AND BAPTISM MUSLIMS ON THE WAY TO HELL
The ordinary means of salvation is faith and baptism and all the Muslims in Orlando, Florida and the rest of America, do not have it. So they are on the way to the fires of Hell for all eternity.
This is the official teaching of the Catholic Church according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Vatican Council II and the dogma EENS.All Catholics are obligated to interpret them rationally, according to Tradition and in accord with a magisterium ( teaching authority) not politically motivated by the Left and Satan.One is not a Catholic if the teachings of the Holy Spirit are changed to please liberal rabbis who also support pro-Satanic values which lead to Hell e.g sodomy, abortion, immodesty in clothes, vulgarity in the media, political hate directed against traditional and conservative Catholics with leftist laws etc).
CATHOLIC SCHOOL USES IRRATIONAL THEOLOGY : DECEPTION
The Blessed Trinity Catholic School in Florida must clarify which theology( Feeneyism or Cushingism) they use to interpret magisterial documents.This would clarify their position on Islamism, as Catholics.
It would be un-ethical to use an irrational theology like Cushingism.It assumes invisible cases of unknown people, saved without the baptism of water in the Catholic Church, are visible exceptions to all needing to be members of the Church.So all non Catholics do not need to convert it is inferred.This is deception.
SCHOOL CONTRADICTS THE PRINCIPLE OF NON CONTRADICTION
It is a theology based on an obvious falsehood.It also contradicts the Principle of Non Contradiction.How can someone in Heaven be an exception on earth? How can someone in the past ( allegedly St.Emerentiana, St.Victor etc) be an exception to EENS in 2017? Who could have seen them in Heaven? How can any of us know someone in 2017 who will be saved without faith and baptism in the Catholic Church? Since an unknown and invisible person in Heaven cannot be a personally known exception on earth in 2017 to EENS. He cannot be an exception to all non Catholics needing to convert into the Catholic Church with no exception.So if the Orlando school uses this theology it would be un-ethical and dishonest.Catholic parents would not consider it being Catholic.
MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL CUSHINGITE
The management of the school would be un-ethical and dishonest after being informed.Cushingism is a false theology in the Catholic Church.It is an innovation which has come into the Church with the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 to the Archbishop of Boston.It is a false reasoning, a philosophical error.Now even Vatican Council II can be interpreted with Feeneyism or Cushingism.It depends on the premise chosen.If the management at the Orlando school interprets magisterial documents with the false premise; with Cushingism,they should clarify it.This theology should not be obligatory for all Catholics.It is dishonesty even though the use of this theology is common today.
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Mark Smythe could ask his lawyer to clarify the school’s position on Islam.Is it according to Vatican Council II, the dogma EENS and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1995) interpreted with a rational( Feeneyite) or irrational( Cushingite) theology?
NOSTRA AETATE DOES NOT CONTRADICT EXTRA ECCLESIAM NULLA SALUS
There is nothing in Nostra Aetate to contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus, unless of course, one is using Cushingism.There could be good and holy things in other religions, but the other religions are not paths to salvation. This was also St.John Bosco’s message.
-Lionel Andrades
May 4, 2017
Mark Smythe may not know : with Feeneyite Vatican Council II,extra ecclesiam nulla salus all Muslims, Jews are on the way to Hell with no known exceptions in 2017 : Blessed Trinity Catholic School issue
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/05/mark-smythe-may-not-know-that-with.html
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2017/05/if-administration-of-orlando-school.html
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-teacher-under-fire-for-passing-out-saints-criticism-of-islam