Tea at Trianon: Protecting Children from Catholic Schools

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, May 18, 2007

Protecting Children from Catholic Schools

It is really a shame but experiences like this keep happening to Catholic parents. I hope the tide has begun to turn.... Share

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Excellent article, emv. It reminds me of a statement I heard Fr John Hardin make at the Catholic homeschool convention years and years ago. He said that the hope for the future of the Church and her teachings is in the grassroots movement of the devoutly Catholic homeschool families. I know he is in heaven praying fervently for these families!; May 18, 2007 at 9:50:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...: I was in the Catholic school system from K-9. Two were parish schools and my freshman year was at a Carmelite and Francisian school. (We moved around a bit because of my dad's transfers by his company) I had a wonderful experience so I missed it when I attended a public high school for grades 10-12. Not all my teachers were Catholic but they were dedicated faculty.; May 18, 2007 at 11:26:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Thanks and I hope so, too, Georgette. Elisa, thanks for pointing out that there are still some fine Catholic out there.; May 18, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM EDT