Secular Sunday #526 – Catholic Schools Week is evangelising, not inclusive

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Editorial

Catholic Schools Week is evangelising, not inclusive

 

This coming week is Catholic Schools Week, during which publicly funded schools run by Catholic Bishops will evangelise Catholicism to children from atheist and minority faith families. There are no State guidelines to protect minorities from this evangelising.

If Catholic Schools wanted to make everyone, of all faiths and none, accepted and welcomed in an inclusive environment, they could start by respecting the Constitutional right of children from atheist and minority faith families to not attend religious instruction classes.

Not only do they refuse to do this, they intensify their lack of respect for minorities by hosting a week that is clearly aimed at faith formation for children from Catholic families, and evangelising Catholicism to children from atheist and minority faith families.

They do this because it is the policy of the Catholic church that ‘The Catholic school exists to educate children in Catholic religious life and in Catholic religious beliefs’ and that ‘a pluralist approach to religion goes against the philosophical basis of Catholic religious education.’

Atheist Ireland campaigns for a secular education system that promotes neither religion nor atheism, and that treats all children, parents, and teachers equally. As always, if you would like to help us to continue this work, please join Atheist Ireland as a member. We are a voluntary body with no paid staff, and we depend on our members to continue our work. You can join here.

– Secular Sunday Editorial Team

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English translation:

To broaden and strengthen our campaigns, Atheist Ireland have undertaken to make more use of the Irish language.
We are looking to assemble a group of volunteers, to help with:

  • Discussing our policies and campaigns on radio or tv
  • Helping to write documents in Irish
  • Meeting with politicians to lobby them
We are in the process of translating policy documents at the moment, and we need some help with translating and proofreading.  If you would like to assist with this effort, please email us at gaeilge@atheist.ie.

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Catholic Schools Week is evangelising, not welcoming or inclusive

 

The Irish Times has published an article about this week’s Catholic Schools Week by Marie Griffin, chairperson of the Catholic Education Partnership. The article claims that Catholic Schools are places where everyone, of all faiths and none, is accepted and welcomed.
If Catholic Schools wanted to make everyone, of all faiths and none, accepted and welcomed in an inclusive environment, they could start by respecting the Constitutional right of children from atheist and minority faith families to not attend religious instruction classes.
Not only do they refuse to do this, they intensify their lack of respect for minorities by hosting a week that is clearly aimed at faith formation for children from Catholic families, and evangelising Catholicism to children from atheist and minority faith families.
As part of this, children must fill in a questionnaire on personal images of God, and survey each other about their different faiths or beliefs and represent the results in a pie chart. This is an unlawful breach of the human right to not reveal your personal beliefs and of GDPR regulations.

  • The Catholic Bishops have told the NCCA that ‘the Catholic school exists to educate children in Catholic religious life and in Catholic religious beliefs which are normative for them’ and that ‘a pluralist approach to religion goes against the philosophical basis of Catholic religious education.’
  • The Dublin Diocese told the NCCA that ‘denominational schools exist to educate children in religious life (and) beliefs that have been revealed by God. For Catholic schools, there is an express and implied duty that the children attending will be educated in the fullness of the faith.’

When Catholic schools say they are inclusive, they mean that they will include children from atheist and minority faith families within their Catholic ethos. That is not being inclusive. To be inclusive, the ethos of a school should not promote either religion or atheism.
Catholic Schools Week seeks to accelerate the evangelising of minorities into a Catholic way of life. It does not respect the constitutional and human rights of minorities. And the State has not put in place any guidelines to protect minorities from this evangelising in publicly funded schools.
The reality of Catholic Schools Week
The website of the Catholic Schools Partnership and the Association of Trustees of Catholic Schools makes clear the evangelising nature of Catholic Schools Week. Here are extracts from the resources for Catholic parishes, Catholic primary schools, and Catholic post primary schools.
Catholic Parish Resources
There is a set of resources for Catholic Parishes regarding Catholic Schools Week.
Parishes should arrange a meeting with the principals and teachers of primary and post-primary schools in the parish to discuss how to highlight and celebrate the work of each individual Catholic school as a community of faith and resilience.
The Mass on 23 January should include a prayer which includes: ‘Loving God … Help our school communities enable each person to … see themselves and others as made for loving and kind relationships with God … May we become more and more like your son Jesus … May your Holy Spirit guide us … We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.’
The parish newsletter should include a notice saying ‘During this week, we aim to celebrate the unique contribution that Catholic schools, both primary and post-primary, make to supporting each other and living out Jesus’ message of the Gospel.’
Where applicable, the school chaplain should visit as many classrooms as possible. The Catholic Schools Week resource will help offer the chaplain a theme for each day’s work.
Catholic Primary School Resources
The Primary School resources include themes and exercises that are clearly aimed at faith formation for children from Catholic families, and evangelising Catholicism to children from atheist and minority faith families.
The resources for Junior and Senior Infants include telling the children that God wants them to live as Jesus did and asking them how they could live like Jesus, singing the song ‘God’s Love is so Wonderful’, celebrating ‘the fact of God’s love for each ’, praying to God to take care of their grandparents, and seeing the world as part of God’s creation.
The resources for First and Second Classes include the above plus the story of the Prodigal Son, with the notes: ‘God will never stop loving us. Sometimes we make bad choices but we can always return to God and he will always welcome us back. God loves us and will always love us. Prayer helps us to talk to God, who always hears our prayers.’
The resources for Third and Fourth Classes include the children spending time reflecting on God’s love for them and how grateful they are for this love and for their life which is precious gift from God. Each day they should think of at least three things that they are grateful to God for and write them down and put them in a jar in ‘the sacred space’.
The resources for Fifth and Sixth Classes include asking children to invite God into their life, telling them that feelings of wonder and awe are the power of God working through their lives and through creation, and asking them to create replicas of the solar system and place them in ‘the sacred space’ and say a prayer together.
Catholic Post Primary School Resources
The Post Primary School resources also include themes and exercises that are clearly aimed at faith formation for children from Catholic families, and evangelising Catholicism to children from atheist and minority faith families.
The theme for Monday is Living Life to the Full With God. The Learning Intention is that students will explore images of God such as ‘God is perfect love’. It includes an exercise in which students fill in a questionnaire on personal images of God. This is an unlawful breach of the human right to not reveal your personal beliefs and of GDPR regulations.
The theme for Tuesday is Living Life to the Full Together. It includes an exercise in which students have to survey their class, find out the different faiths or beliefs of the students in their class, and represent the information on a pie chart/bar chart. This is an unlawful breach of the human right to not reveal your personal beliefs and of GDPR regulations.
The theme for Wednesday is Celebrating Being Together Again. It is about solidarity with older people in a Christian community. It includes an EWTN video about a ‘grandparents day’ dedicated to Joachim and Ann, the parents of the Biblical character Mary, and the earthly grandparents of Jesus, who ‘we can embrace as our spiritual grandparents.’
The theme for Thursday is Living Life in Wonder and Awe. It includes a song by a Christian musician who sees in the wonders of nature that God loves him. It asks students to respond to this quote from Pope Francis: ‘Christ is alive! He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world, and everything he touches becomes young, new, full of life.’
The theme for Friday is Living Life and Facing the Future. It includes a song by a Christian musician the chorus of which is ‘if there’s anything good that happens in life, it’s from Jesus.’ It asks students to respond to the Bible quote: ‘All that we suffer in the present time is nothing in comparison with the glory which is destined to be disclosed for us.’
Summary
If Catholic Schools wanted to make everyone, of all faiths and none, accepted and welcomed in an inclusive environment, they could start by respecting the Constitutional right of children from atheist and minority faith families to not attend religious instruction classes.
Not only do they refuse to do this, they intensify their lack of respect for minorities by hosting a week that is clearly aimed at faith formation for children from Catholic families, and evangelising Catholicism to children from atheist and minority faith families.
They do this because it is the policy of the Catholic church that ‘The Catholic school exists to educate children in Catholic religious life and in Catholic religious beliefs’ and that ‘a pluralist approach to religion goes against the philosophical basis of Catholic religious education.’
Read online…

The Dept of Education and the NCCA are trying to redefine the Constitutional right to not attend religious instruction by claiming that it only refers to not attending religious classes in accordance with the rites of one religion. From our complaint to the Comptroller and Auditor General on the misuse of public funds.

Misuse of public funds regarding religious instruction in schools Part 3 of 3

Atheist Ireland has sent a major report to the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee. We are arguing that the Department of Education and the NCCA are misusing public funds by ignoring constitutional conditions about the right to not attend religious education in schools.
This is the third of three articles that include the content of this report. Here are links to all three articles:

2. The State is Misusing Public Funds and not being Transparent or Accountable
2.1 Overview
The Minister is obliged to leave reasonable instruction time for subjects relating to or arising from the characteristic spirit (ethos) of the school. In denominational schools these subjects are indisputably ‘Religious Instruction’ where the Constitutional right to not attend applies.
In 2000 the Department and the NCCA introduced Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ into the curriculum at second level. In addition the Department and the NCCA have also introduced into Community National Schools at Primary level a course called ‘Goodness Me Goodness You’ (GMGY) which includes elements of religious and moral education.
A significant amount of public funding was used to develop both these courses, and continues to be used each year.
The State has recently started to argue that these courses do not fall into the category of ‘Religious Instruction’ and therefore argues that the Constitutional right to not attend ‘does not arise’. However:

  • To make this case, the State relies on new definitions that have no legal basis, and that are not consistent with the rulings of the Supreme Court and the High Court. Also, the specific arguments that the State uses to justify this have shifted over time, including within Circular Letters and answers to Oireachtas questions, so they are not based on a consistent foundation.
  • Atheist, humanist, and secular parents object on the grounds of conscience to the content of these courses, and we have the same Constitutional rights of conscience as religious people.
  • At primary level, the GMGY course is the patron’s programme. At second level, Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ is in practice integrated with the patron’s programme. It is not taught separately, as that would mean two separate Religion classes would be happening during the school day.

The State has introduced syllabus ‘Religious Education’ courses that teach morals through religion and not objectively and claim that they are not ‘Religious Instruction’ but ‘Religious Education’ or in the case of the GMGY course ‘Ethical Education’.
In 2019 Minister for Education Richard Bruton said that Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ is just like any other subject such as history or geography. However, unlike history or geography, the Department of Education and the NCCA developed the Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ course with the intention that the Catholic Church would use it to support their ‘faith formation’ or ‘catechetical’ requirements.
Also, in order to introduce syllabus ‘Religious Education’ and assessment at Junior and Leaving Certificate level the Department of Education needed to amend the Intermediate Education Act as that Act did not permit the holding of exams in Religious Instruction (see Section 1.3.3 of this document above).
The result of the above on the ground is that Catholic faith formation is integrated into Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ while the Department of Education, the NCCA, the Catholic Church and Education and Training Board schools claim that it is not ‘Religious Instruction’ but ‘Religious Education’ and the right to not attend ‘does not arise’. This is a significant claim to make and, as this document shows, it is not supported by the evidence.
2.2 The Department is trying to redefine key Constitutional terms
In 2000 the Department and the NCCA introduced Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ into the curriculum at second level. In addition the Department and the NCCA have also introduced into Community National Schools at Primary level called the Goodness Me Goodness You course.
In recent years the Department of Education has been trying to redefine the phrases ‘Religious Instruction’ and ‘Religious Education’. They then claim that Syllabus ‘Religious Education’ does not fall under the category of ‘Religious Instruction’ for the purposes of Article 44.2.4 of the Constitution, which includes funding duties.
But the redefinitions they are using have no basis in law, do not take due regard to the Constitutional rights of parents, and are inconsistent with the findings of the Supreme Court. Atheist Ireland obtained a legal opinion from James Kane, barrister-At-Law, about Article 44.2.4. Read more…

Census on April the 3rd – Be honest to Godless

You  can find these graphics on our campaign page Honest to Godless. Please download them and share on socail media.

There were just a thousand nonreligious in Ireland sixty years ago, and nearly half a million in 2016. How many will there be in this years census on 3 April?

The census question on religion is about what you believe today. You won’t write your childhood address, so don’t tick your childhood religion.

The religion figures in the census can be distorted by the head of the household filling in the census form for everybody. if you want to answer the personal questions privately, you can ask for an individual census form.

There are already more Irish with no religion than all minority faiths combined, yet we are still discriminated against in Irish law. Continue to record the rise of the nonreligious in the census this year.

The next Irish census is on 3 April 2022. If you are not religious, tick No Religion. Continue to record the rise of the nonreligious in Ireland.

Catholic schools are not inclusive. Inclusive to them means they will include you in their religion!

State-funded Catholic schools fundamentally object to teaching religious pluralism

In Ireland one of the key issues in the Primary school Curriculum is pluralism. The Curriculum says it has a responsibility to promote tolerance and respect for diversity, in both the school and the community. Despite this, State-funded schools with a Catholic ethos fundamentally object to teaching religious pluralism within schools.
The first thing to note here is that the pluralism referred to in the Primary school curriculum includes religious pluralism. There are over 126 different religions in Ireland, and the State claims that it equally recognises their beliefs, values and aspirations. The State does not go so far as to equally recognise non-religious world views. The Primary School Curriculum reflects this (see page 58).
It is bad enough that State-funded schools are allowed to give priority to religious beliefs over nonreligious beliefs. However, State-funded schools with a Catholic ethos are not even happy with that level of privilege. They have made this clear in their response to the proposed new State course about Religions, beliefs and Ethics.
The Catholic Bishops object to promoting even pluralism among religious beliefs within schools, as they believe that it goes against the philosophical basis of Catholic religious education. The Church accepts that freedom of religion is the bedrock of western democracies, but insists that promoting pluralism within schools is against their ethos.
What the Primary School Curriculum says

“The curriculum has a particular responsibility in promoting tolerance and respect for diversity in both the school and the community. Children come from a diversity of cultural, religious, social, environmental and ethnic backgrounds, and these engender their own beliefs, values, and aspirations. The curriculum acknowledges the centrality of the Christian heritage and tradition in the Irish experience and the Christian identity shared by the majority of Irish people. It equally recognises the diversity of beliefs, values and aspirations of all religious and cultural groups in society.”

What the Catholic Bishops say
In a recent Submission to the National Council of Curriculum & Assessment, the Catholic Bishops said:

“2. Pluralism and freedom of religion
The principle of freedom of religion is part of the bedrock upon which western democracies are constructed.”
“These approaches require teachers to adopt and promote a pluralist approach to religion. This is an approach to religion that goes against the philosophical basis of Catholic religious education. Such a contradiction would place teachers in a very difficult position where conflicting philosophical approaches to religious education would have the potential to create significant confusion.”

For many parents, this means that the State ‘provides for’ the education of their children in publicly funded schools that see pluralism as something that undermines their ethos.
Over half of the primary schools in the country are what the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism referred to as ‘Stand Alone Schools’. This means that all of the children in particular areas attend the only local school. This, of course, is a publicly funded National School with a Catholic ethos.
It is impossible to see how this respects the inalienable right of parents under Article 42 of the Constitution. The State then gives exemptions in equality legislation, that permit publicly funded schools to discriminate on the grounds of religion while still claiming that they promote pluralism.
Conclusion
In Ireland, the commitment to pluralism (a bedrock of western democracy) is promoted by segregating small children according to the religious affiliation of their parents. The larger religious groups in society attract state funding, and the smaller groups are left sending their children to schools that see pluralism as something that undermines their ethos.
If you are an atheist, please join Atheist Ireland and help us to challenge these breaches of fundamental human rights.
If you are religious, please support the joint campaign by Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland for a secular State education system that respects everybody’s rights equally and gives no privilege to any religious belief or institution. Read online…

Know your rights

In all regions of the world people cite religious justification for the preservation or impositions of laws that discriminate against women, girls and LGBT persons.

ETB schools inform parents that religious instruction is not provided in the school while telling them that religious education is offered as per the Deeds of Trust. They inform parents that all students are expected to take RE and that it has a catechetical element but it is not religious instruction and therefore no supervision is offered outside the class.

The Deeds of Trust only refer to religious instruction.

ETB schools breach the Constitutional rights of parents and are not inclusive schools.


Catholic Schools Week

Asking students to reveal their religious or philosophical convictions during syllabus Religious Education classes breaches the right to freedom of religion and belief.

Putting students in a position where they are obliged directly or indirectly to reveal their religious or philosophical convictions breaches the right to freedom of religion and belief.

A resource for Catholic Schools week published by the Catholic Bishops for breaches the right to freedom of religion and belief of students. This resource is to be used during syllabus Religious Education. Students will be asked to reveal their religious or philosophical convictions in a survey.


Calling concerned teachers

If you are a teacher and concerned about unwanted religious influence contact Chris at teachers@atheist.ie

List of Atheist Ireland Submissions


Buy this book “Is My Family Odd About Gods?”

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Atheist Ireland are offering the book ‘Is my family odd about godsfree (excluding postage and packaging).  This means that you can get this book for the total price of 10 euro. This offer is aimed at families with school going children, who would like to read this book. This offer is limited to one book per family unit and for postage within Ireland only. Read more…

Have you noticed that your school and your teachers may tell you one thing about religion, while some of your friends and family may have different ideas about god?
If you think that this is a little odd, then this book is for you. Buy this book here.

Lessons about Atheism

Atheist Ireland has published a set of free lesson plans about atheism for children aged 8 and up. We welcome feedback, which we will use to develop the lessons. You can download the lesson plans here


Be Good without Gods

Atheist Ireland ‘Good Without Gods’ Kiva team members have made loans of  $35,425 to 1230 entrepreneurs in the developing world. You can join the team here. Before you chose a loan, make sure you do not support religious groups. You can check the loan partner’s social and secular rating here.

Notme.ie

Atheist Ireland’s ‘notme.ie‘ is a place where people can publicly renounce the religion of their childhood. Currently there are 1897 symbolic defections. Many share their reasons for making a public symbolic defection which you can read here

Petition on Schools Equality PACT 

Atheist Ireland currently runs one petition – The Schools Equality PACT. This seeks to reform religious discrimination in state-funded schools. Currently this stands at 4,103 Help us reach it’s target of 5000. Please sign and share this petition if you haven’t already done so. Thank you.

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Government will not oppose motion to buy site of new National Maternity Hospital.

 

By Pat Leahy

 

The Government will not oppose a Dáil motion to be debated on Thursday night calling for the compulsory purchase of the site for the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH). However, the Government has not changed its position and does not intend to purchase the site. Instead, it is seeking to conclude a long-term lease – expected to be 299 years – with the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group, owners of the site adjacent to St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin 4. Read online…

 

Mother and baby homes survivors demand changes to ‘insulting’ scheme

 

By Kitty Holland

 

The redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes is “insulting”, “penny-pinching” and must be changed, survivors said during a protest outside Leinster House on Wednesday. In particular, they said they object to the exclusion of babies in the homes for less than six months, including those who were ‘boarded out’. Read online…

 

I’ll protest until I die: Call for forgotten boarded out children to be given redress

 

By Órla Ryan

THE REDRESS SCHEME for survivors of mother and baby homes and county homes should be extended to include all people who spent time in one of the institutions, including people who were boarded out as children, some survivors have said. Read more…

School is where our children can learn to respect themselves and each other

 

By Colm O’Connor

On Saturday morning, we attended the vigil for Ashling Murphy in Cork. The sight of hundreds of people standing in solidarity was very moving and an urgent question hung in the shock and the silence: ‘How can we stop this happening again?’  The need for us all to speak up against all forms of gender discrimination is clearer than ever, and I would like to contribute to the discussion from the sector that I know best, the education system. Read more…

 

 

International

 

Threatening church means threatening Poland and cannot be tolerated, says Kaczyński

 

By Ben Koschalka

If Poland is to have a future, attacks on the Catholic church must not be tolerated, says Jarosław Kaczyński, chairman of the ruling national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. The church’s mission is closely linked with Polishness and Polish history, and anyone who threatens one is also threatening the other, argued Kaczyński, who warned that internal and external “enemies are trying to destroy Poland”. Read more…

 

RE promotes religiosity but not morality, German study finds

 

By The National Secular Society

Religious education promotes religiosity but not broadly shared moral and political values, research suggests. Researchers at the University of Munich’s Institute for Economic Research have found German states’ decisions to replace compulsory religious education (RE) in the 1970s with optional ethics classes significantly reduced pupils’ religiosity in adulthood. Read more…

Report: Politicians use religion to restrict reproductive rights

 

By The National Secular Society

Politicians around the world are using religion to restrict reproductive rights, a recent report has found. Welcome to Gilead: pronatalism and the threat to reproductive rights (pictured) warns “extremist, religious, nationalist currents” leading to clampdowns on reproductive rights in countries like Poland are “spreading across the globe”. Read more…

When religious freedom is for me, not for thee.

 

By Mark Silk

(RNS) — Earlier this month a federal judge in Mississippi ordered the city of Horn Lake, south of Memphis, to permit the construction of a mosque. The order came in response to a lawsuit that alleged religious discrimination by city leaders.  One of the Horn Lake officials had told the local newspaper, “I don’t care what they say, their religion says they can lie or do anything to the Jews or gentiles because we’re not Muslims.” Read more…

Religious selection is only part of the problem with faith schools

 

By Alastair Lichten

Ending religious discrimination in faith school admissions is an important first step – but it will not undo all the harms caused by faith schools, says Alastair Lichten.
It’s easy to see why religious selection in admissions dominates the debate over faith schools. It is perceived by many as their most obvious and egregious problem. It is a form of direct and open discrimination that would be unlawful and unacceptable in almost any other public context, and contributes to the problems of middle-class parents ‘gaming the system
. Read more…

New law to end teacher discrimination in Northern Ireland a step closer

 

By Humanists UK

A Bill that would end teacher discrimination in Northern Ireland has passed its first stage in the Assembly, bringing welcome progress to Northern Ireland Humanists’ campaign for a single education system free of religious bias. If the Fair Employment (Teachers) Bill, introduced to the assembly by Chris Lyttle MLA, becomes law it will mean that schools would no longer be able to discriminate on religious grounds when appointing or promoting teachers. Read more…

 

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