My aunt was right: the world is gone altogether
They said to me here as I walked around, “you just got away with it,” referring to the recent blessing of the extension of our two schools, because your last paragraph says that the seven judges of the European Court of Human Rights are not insisting that those crucifixes already in classrooms be taken down.
I could not help thinking of my visiting aunt saying to my mother as we were being hunted out to play with our cousins: “Mary, the world is gone altogether.”
Well, that was close on 80 years ago, but the humanists, atheists and secularists must be delighted with all that the media are feeding us today.
Innocent words of those far-off days I can’t use any more. “Partner” has been captured for another purpose, so has “gay”, so has “choice”, so has “equality”. I could go on.
This language engineering or political correctness – as it is euphemistically labelled – is the work of various ideological elites.
As I said on the night of the blessing of the school extensions, “faith education begins with the recognition that deep within us is the thirst for truth, that our lives have a purpose.
“Mystery and wonder for a child must be addressed: granny has died; where is she now? Who made the world and all the stars, and who made me?
“Our education system, while valuing tolerance and inclusiveness in an increasingly multicultural society, cannot be neutral about the meaning of human life, by making convictions invisible or inaudible.
“That is why we are gathered here for God’s blessing on all of us and for the inspiration of the Spirit of God on the work of our teachers of these young boys and girls.
“An approach which does not address the personal searching of the pupil and the deep mystery of his or her life would empty out what is basic to education.”
Fr Tom Kelleher
Courceys
Kinsale
Co Cork
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