Vote for Catholic education

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English

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The Carolinian Volume XV (Issue No. 9) October 1951

Year

1951

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VOTE FOR Cai/udic SducAi IN OUR BULWARK of Christianity L. in the Far East, in our Catholic Philippines, we Catholics are the emaciated victims of our own stupid complacency against the pernicious onslaughts of Protestants, Masons, and unscrupulous politicians in our educational system. We pay tax to support public education, even if we do not use such Godless education for our children. We pay to establish and maintain our own Catholic schools. To top the sad situation, we have to pay more, because the Govern-. ment taxes our Catholic schools! Should a public or another pri vate school be operating already in locality, with its inadequate. God less education, we are prohibited from having our own Catholic school. We have been forced to pay for public education; we are now forced to take the Godless education, or to have no education at all. We cannot have our own Catholic school! Indeed, it is very strange that, although our Government is fight ing Communism, our Government is doing precisely what the Communist are doing in Red China and else where inside the Iron Curtain: dis couraging, persecuting the Catholic schools! We, the people must correct this anomaly. The Administration of Pre sident Quirino must be subject to censure in the coming elections un less it reforms its anti-democratic and anti-Catholic policy against Ca tholic schools. In the first place, the Administra tion must lift up the taxation of Ca tholic schools. Such taxation is against the Constitution, against the democratic way of life, and smacks of an avid desire to get money and more money by whatever means, for the Government to spend and per haps mis-spend. In the second place, the Admi nistration must permit the opening of Catholic schools even in places where there are already public or other private schools. Freedom of education, the right and duty to educate one's children, is a God given, inalienable human right, re cognized in our Constitution. It inI Reprinted from the Joro Archdiocese' Catholic newspaper "Veritas" of September 9, 1951) eludes the freedom to establish and maintain schools. Any public or private school that cannot stand the test of honest com petition deserves no artificial pro tection from the State. Moreover, it must be noted that there is some thing in Catholic education that is absent from our "public'' or "secu lar" education, — the education of the soul, along with the education of the mind and body. We Catholics must awake from our stupid complacency, and stop being like the placid carabao, led by the nose by the enemies of our Church. We must be militant Ca tholics in our private and public life. We must make good use of the ballot. We must ask our candidates to state their stand on Catholic edu cation, and accordingly give them or refuse them our vote. OFF THE RECORD (Continued from page 4) patriotic than the Ed who's all afire with enthusiasm setting up a chap ter of the National Movement for Free Elections. We can contribute this . observation though the po litical would have lost an asset in the person of Father Moderator. Have you seen Father S. coming down the corridors to his office? Such a lot of "Hello, Inday" and "It's this, my boy, no?” and stopping to chat and the cheery Catholic wave of the hand and geniality. Win ning any election would be a cinch. Unfortunately, Father S. is hap py where he is, so there is lost one who answers the need of the mo ment — “A Catholic Politician." In the course of our chat with friend Herbie in the office the other day, we touched on the interesting (Continued on page 33) ] WANTED A CATHOLIC . . . (Continued from page 6) i ideal that they are subservient, nay, slaves of the State, because they I have to live like social beings and I must look to the common good. On i the altars of this ideal, they are ; willing to follow their leader to death. Can any one sincerely say: I shall sacrifice my life for the free dom not to get caught by the police man? Frantically America today is try ing to gain adherents to its bankrupt cause. It strews billions of dollars around the world seeking to lull the intense unrest of backward nations by a temporary prosperity. The Marshall Plan, the Point IV, the war damage, surplus, war equipments, all the letters of the alphabet dressed up gaudily with the glitter of Ame rican gold are mustered up to pre vent the final cataclysm. The Yan kee dollar rolls in vain. Why? Where did the PCAU and the ECA supplies go? Ask the party in power. Where did the surplus and the War Damage money go? Ask the party in power. Where did the billions for Chinese defense go? Ask the Nationalists. Where will all other American aid, intended for the enlightenment and the social upliftment of the masses, finally go? If for once such aid were applied pro perly, how successful would it be in setting at ease the fevered spasms of suffering humanity, and for how long? How long without a faith that makes the individual res ponsible to His Lord and Creator, to Whom he must render a final ac counting. How long without a faith that recognizes the Ten Command-, ments. How long without a faith that makes all men brothers and worthy of respect because they are all children of God. How long without a faith that teaches that the salva tion of man's soul is the chief con cern of man here on earth, and that each right proceeds from God, each duty is owed to God? The skeptic might at this point raise an eyebrow and say: Why religion of all things in this modern age? To go into a detailed answer could not be difficult, but there is a more powerful answer that comes from the pronounced enemies of democracy. Why do the communist hate religion so much? Scan the newspapers for the atrocities, the inhuman killing of priests, nuns, and other Apostles of Christianity. You remember Cardinal Mindzenthy. You remember the Protestant Mis(Continued on page 32) October, 1951 Page 7

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