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Politically correct = a double standard. 

The title of the post is a line spoken by Maggie Smith’s character in the movie “Tea With Mussolini.”  She had been dissapointed in Mussolini’s broken promises and treatment of herself and her companions in the war.  I found myself repeating the same line after I read how John Klein, the Chancellor of NYC Public Schools (pictured) is planning on opening an all-Muslim public school.  The school is due to open Sptember 4 of this year.  The plans are being challenged, but what is he thinking?

Where is the ACLU in this?  What about separation of Church and State?  You can’t even display a Christmas creche in NYC public schools, yet they can open a Muslim public school?  The scary part of it is who is on the advisory board for the proposed school.  From the CNA article:

“Some of the school’s promoters have ties to questionable Islamic organizations, including the Council of American Islamic Relations. The group’s founder and chairman publicly stated in 1998: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Quaran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

Imam Talib Abdul-Rashid of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood is on the school’s advisory board. The Muslim Brotherhood website contains the ominous slogan: “The Qu’ran is our constitution/Jihad is our way/And death in the way of Allah is our promised end.” - Catholic News Agency  

Let them start their own schools if they must - privately, like Catholics have done for decades.

Authenticity. 

Today’s readings from Mass remind me of a post I did on the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi last week.  Not so much the post as the comments I have received regarding the Legion itself.  Today’s readings are all about hypocrisy and deception.  Read closely, Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians roundaboutly addresses issues of disingenuous motivation on the part of some evangelists in the Church, by explaining what the Apostles were not.

Paul stresses that their exhortations and teaching were not  “from delusion or impure motives, nor did it work through deception.”  (And he might well have added, through coercion.)  Neither were they trying to please men with flattering, obsequious speech, or under any pretext, no matter how holy in appearance, which could cloak greed.  Nor did they seek praise and honor from men or the established institutions of men.  It is a good lesson in discernment for us.

From a recent comment to this blog.

I want to post the latest comment (today) I received in response to my post about the Legion of Christ, it kind of ties in with today’s readings and things I have been pondering over the past few days as regards religious deception.  The comment:

“I was a member of this movement Regnum Christi for 6 years. I can only say that they ARE the wolves in sheep’s clothing of our Holy Church, and a stain and a blight to Her more than any other religious movement in the RCC. In one “discernment” weekend they almost managed to destroy my daughter, by convincing her that unless she joined the consecrated branch, she was being “mean” with God. She is tormented to this day with irrational fear and guilt from being subjected to that brainwashing over a period of a few months. They create clones of each other, and subject their members to immense psychological guilt. But those that are in it can not see it. They paint such a wholesome orthodox picture to outsiders, but within they are empty, carbon copies of one another. They are whitened sepulchres, and their wickedness is that of the pharisees, but worse because they are truly destroying young and innocent souls in the effort to create a “kingdom” that is all about appearances , power and money. It is NOT about saving souls. I have spoken to many priests in confession because of the guilt I feel, because as a faithful orthodox Catholic, I have to confront this horror and shock people with this truth. It IS a cult. May God in His mercy purge His church of this plague.  - Maria”

I don’t know anymore than what people such as this woman and others have said concerning the Legionairies; their personal experiences along with what is posted on the ReGAIN website.  My intention is not to discredit any particular group in the Church but to emphasize that all of us need to be much more discerning in our faith.  That’s all.