Posted on http://www.youtube.com/ as “Catholasism Project”
It would be my guess that this is a Catholic school. If so, that only bolsters the arguments made by some to sell off all the schools and start fresh. A radical suggestion to be sure, but when you see something like this, you can understand why it is that some feel that way.
Remember to daily commit to performing the Spiritual Works of Mercy… Most especially instructing the ignorant.
H/T: Ecce Agnus Dei Blog
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I spent a semester at a Catholic high school. I was amazed at how unchristian most of the kids were.
Then again, I think most of these kids are acting dumb just to seem “cool”.
If they are feigning stupidity to be cool that is worse yet.
You can tell some are acting dumb. Especially when the camera is focused on two girls at the lockers (close to the beginning). The first girl says I don’t believe in God. She says it fast and decisively. The second just looks at her and then at the camera and freezes. Right there you see her question her faith in her head. So sad.
Is it just Catholic High School, or is it High School in general. Think about your High School experience. The add in todays new rules. We can’t have prayer in school. They want God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. Etc.
We have isolated God to one day a week in the minds of our children. What do you expect them to say?
Yes these kids are ignorant and playing it up for the camera. However, this is hardly the fault of Catholic schools, although some certainly do not help the situation. As a Catholic school teacher, I can tell you that you can teach, evangelize, and do whatever, until you are blue in the face, but if something is not taught and emphasized in the home, then it is a constant uphill battle on a teacher’s part. We orthodox teachers can only do our best and pray that nominal kids in nominal homes take away a seed of Truth that will perhaps blossom later. At least there is the seed there.
However, this is not to say some Catholic schools are not doing a poor job. I am not saying the system doesn’t need reformed, because it does (and the heterodox are often in charge), but the opposite of misuse is correct use, not necessarily disuse. I can’t see my students acting like this, and I would be disappointed if it was them. Unfortunately, students attend Catholic schools for a variety of reasons, many of them not religious ones. This seems like a bunch of spoiled kids who think they are funny.
My only contact with the parochial or diocesan schools was at one remove with a veteran of one of their high schools, a nasty old-school laywoman, ethnic Irish, who taught typing on old-fashioned manual machines.
My father confessor is old enough to have been taught by ‘penguin’ nuns as a kid and loved every minute of it; altar boy and all that. (He wanted to be a priest since he was 4.)
But that battle-axe reminds me why there are so many horror stories.
Went to one of their universities which was a humongo mistake. Sports, frats, yuppy and upper-middle-class wannabes with new money… but with that Irish hatred of my tradition and culture implicit in everything including the established religion there, which was liturgically low-modern and dogmatically PC with anti-abortion thrown in (’cos that’s what good Irish-Italians are supposed to say).
I’d tell kids like I was to find a nice tech school or preppy liberal-arts place in a small town, a school with no pretence of being Catholic, truly open-minded, with no big sports or frats either, and with a conservative high church of some kind in town to go to. Campus chaplaincies can fall in the ocean as far as I’m concerned.
What saved me was there was a conservative high church in town, and of my native tradition.
So I didn’t and don’t need the ‘Cat’lics’ and ‘Catholasism’. I got Catholicism instead.