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Editor\u2019s Note:<\/em>\u00a0A version of this piece was published at Crisis Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We shall have to build the schoolhouse first and the church afterward,\u201d the bishop declared, expressing his alarm about the corruption of young Catholics in secular schools. \u201cIn our age, the question of education is the question of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These famous words of Archbishop \u201cDagger John\u201d Hughes, who was New York City\u2019s first Catholic shepherd in the mid-1800s, seem no less relevant today. And in Fairfax County, Va., where critical race theory, gender ideology and emptied classrooms because of COVID have sparked protests by angry parents, a parish priest is taking up Hughes\u2019s mission of helping Catholic children get out of public schools by every means possible.<\/p>\n

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Father John De Celles (Photo by Paul Haring)<\/p><\/div>\n

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When the pandemic hit last year, Father John De Celles of St. Raymond of Penafort Parish in Springfield, Va., instituted a one-time $2,000 scholarship for each child in his parish who switches from a public elementary or secondary school to a Catholic parochial or lay-run school. Father has renewed that offer again for the 2021-22 school year, thanks to the generosity of parishioners who don\u2019t have school-age children.<\/p>\n

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In addition, this year he doubled the parish\u2019s annual, renewable scholarships to $1,000 for students in Catholic grade schools and $2,000 for students in Catholic high schools. On a case-by-case basis, St. Raymond\u2019s offers additional financial aid to families in need and helps cover the direct educational costs of families who homeschool.<\/p>\n

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These scholarships are not a marketing strategy for the parish school\u2014in fact, there is no school at St. Raymond\u2019s. Instead, parishioners attend nearby parochial schools or Angelus Academy, one of a growing number of faithful, lay-established schools. St. Raymond\u2019s also supports an active group of Catholic homeschooling families.<\/p>\n

The goal in promoting all of these options is to ensure that kids get a Catholic formation.<\/p>\n

“We need to do whatever we can to help parents get their kids out of these corrupt government-run schools,\u201d Fr. De Celles tells The Cardinal Newman Society. \u201cWe talk a lot about \u2018evangelization,\u2019 but we\u2019re losing the souls we already have if we let these little ones be prey to the wolves. They will leave us and Jesus. We must do everything we can to save them, literally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The parish scholarships and Father\u2019s efforts to highlight the dangers of public schools in bulletins and other parish communications have persuaded families to make the switch to Catholic education. One family told him they \u201ccannot imagine going back to the public school system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another family, whose 5th-grade son transferred from a public school into a Catholic school, told Father, \u201cIt was the best decision we made. Your assistance helped to make this happen for us, and we remain eternally grateful to you!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fr. De Celles was especially happy to grant a full scholarship to a single immigrant mom with huge financial troubles. He awarded another to a family caught up in financial problems related to the pandemic. This year, he said, the family is back on their feet and able to pay most of the tuition themselves.<\/p>\n

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\u201cParents tell me all the time how they love the Catholic schools, and how grateful they are,\u201d Father says.<\/p>\n

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Returning to an old solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The outlook for Irish Catholic immigrants in the mid-19th century was dismal, but Archbishop Hughes did not abandon his people. Instead he brought them to Christ through rigorous moral preaching and continually proclaiming the love of the Sacred Heart. The Archbishop\u2019s attentiveness helped the Irish people relearn a sense of sin and guilt and become outstanding citizens and leaders in the city.<\/p>\n

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Importantly, he knew that education was the way to help the Irish people up from poverty and lawlessness to stable and upstanding lives. Hughes fought against the public school system, which was essentially run by Protestants. His attempt to win state support for Catholic schools caused controversy and a backlash with the Maclay Bill of 1842, which barred religious instruction from public schools and funds for denominational schools. But Hughes was not deterred, establishing even more Catholic schools.<\/p>\n

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Were the challenges he faced much different from what we face today? American Catholics were openly discriminated against for their religious beliefs. Large numbers of Catholic immigrants were quickly assimilated into public schools, which opposed Catholic teaching. Families were in crisis\u2014especially the poorest in the inner cities\u2014and they were battered by promiscuity, alcoholism, disease and absent fathers.<\/p>\n

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Today America is much more prosperous, yet the challenges facing the Church and society still include discrimination against Catholic beliefs, the assimilation of Catholic immigrants, sexual immorality, substance abuse, fatherlessness and even a devastating plague\u2014plus the corruption of public schools.<\/p>\n

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All this suggests a return to the solution of Archbishop Hughes: first and foremost, tend to the spiritual and temporal needs of Catholic families. Renew courageous moral preaching, confidence in the love of Christ. And renew commitment to faithful Catholic education in any way that serves the needs of families, forming Catholics to be lights in the darkness.<\/p>\n

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Pastors like Father De Celles carry on the mission of Archbishop Hughes and others who established Catholic education in America, including St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, St. John Neumann and St. Katherine Drexel. Fr. De Celles recalls the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1889, in which America\u2019s bishops urged parents to withdraw their kids from public schools.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday we have an even worse problem,\u201d Father says. \u201cIn 1889 the public schools were at least teaching with a Christian foundation, albeit Protestant. Now we face an anti-Christian and really anti-Christ school system.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the dangers of public education, bishops today are \u201cessentially silent,\u201d laments Fr. De Celles. \u201cParents and pastors and bishops should be doing everything possible to save their children from the abuse of public schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Protecting children<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Northern Virginia\u2019s Fairfax County, where St. Raymond Parish is located, and nearby Loudoun County have become hotbeds for false ideology. For example, the Loudoun County public schools recently required teachers to use students’ preferred gender pronouns. Students who identify as “gender-expansive and transgender” are allowed to participate in sports “in a manner consistent with the student’s gender identity,” Fox News reported.<\/p>\n

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In Fairfax County, public school teachers, principals and other leaders held a one-hour Zoom conference with author Ibram Kendi, an advocate of critical race theory. As the Federalist reported, the call cost $20,000, and the district spent $24,000 on Kendi\u2019s books while making them required reading for K-12 students.<\/p>\n

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Fairfax schools are also required to make bathrooms and locker rooms available to students based on their self-identified gender. Students must be identified by chosen names and genders, even in official school yearbooks.<\/p>\n

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These are just a handful of the dangerous influences in public schools. The bottom line is that many public schools today are promoting a worldview that\u2019s inconsistent with our faith and often anti-Catholic. Parents, especially Catholic ones, are pulling their kids out.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe sent our eldest daughter to Kindergarten at a public school, with the hope of using public school for as long as possible, given the expensive tuitions for four children in Catholic school,\u201d recalled one of the families that sought help from St. Raymond Parish. \u201cBut we pulled her after her first year, when a teacher casually spoke about same-sex marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have tried to instill our faith in our children as their primary teachers, and now more than ever we know how important it is to protect them from what is being taught in the public schools,\u201d the family wrote.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a concern that Fr. De Celles wants everyone in his parish to take seriously. In a parish bulletin in May, Father wrote that the problems \u201ccause me to wonder if it is immoral to send children to these schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

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St. Raymond of Penafort Parish in Springfield, Va.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThink about this: we were all rightly outraged when we heard about the abuse of children by priests and bishops a few years back,\u201d wrote Fr. De Celles. \u201cI remember how, for a while, so many people treated all priests as suspect of these horrible deeds. And we still have all sorts of rules in place in the Church that are to protect our children from the possibility of this ever happening. I understood that.”<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut now I wonder, why do we not feel\/think the same outrage and suspicion toward our government bureaucrats and elected officials who are also abusing our children by warping their minds with this filth and nonsense? How can we corrupt our kids with this cow manure, and still say we love them, much less expect them and ourselves to remain in God\u2019s favor? How can we do this to our little ones and not fear the fires of hell\u2014for them and us?\u201d<\/p>\n

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It couldn\u2019t get more serious than that. For Fr. De Celles, helping young Catholics obtain a faithful Catholic education is a pastor\u2019s solemn duty. He is leading the way through his own actions and the generosity and conviction of his parishioners.<\/p>\n

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It is an approach that will, we hope, be replicated in parishes and dioceses around the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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