Catholic News Agency reports that the Cardinal Newman Society will expand its “Newman Guide” recommendations to include elementary schools, secondary schools, and graduate programs alongside colleges. The 2025-2026 edition celebrates John Henry Newman’s recent designation as “co-patron of Catholic education” by antipope Leo XIV (Bergoglio) and claims to help families identify institutions providing “faithful Catholic education” based on “Principles of Catholic Identity in Education” derived from post-conciliar documents. The article quotes Dominic Kalpakgian and Molly Metzgar testifying to the guide’s utility, while Derek Tremblay of Mount Royal Academy asserts that graduates from Newman Guide colleges remain practicing Catholics.
Canonization Fraud as Foundation for Educational Apostasy
The guide’s expansion builds upon the fraudulent 2019 “canonization” of John Henry Newman – a heretic who laid groundwork for Modernism with his theory of doctrinal development. As Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Modernists hold that “dogma is not only able, but ought to evolve and to be changed” (Denzinger 2080). Newman’s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine precisely embodies this condemned proposition, arguing that doctrines “develop” through history rather than being “once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3). The elevation of this theological saboteur to “doctor of the Church” reveals the guide’s rotten foundation.
When the article states Newman became “patron saint of Catholic education,” it commits sacrilege against true patrons like Saint Joseph Calasanctius, who established free schools for poor children while maintaining doctrinal purity. Newman instead represents the corruption of education through historical-critical methods that Pius XII warned against in Humani Generis: “Some audaciously pervert the sense of the Vatican Council which defined God to be the author of Holy Scripture, and they revive the old error of the rationalists” (Denzinger 2314).
False Criteria Masking Doctrinal Compromise
The Cardinal Newman Society claims its recommendations derive from “guidance from Church councils, popes, Vatican congregations, bishops conferences, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and other Church documents.” This deliberately obscures the radical discontinuity between pre-1958 magisterial teaching and post-conciliar innovations. Nowhere does the guide reference Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri, which mandates:
“Education belongs pre-eminently to the Church by a twofold title… namely by the title of her divine mission to all men… The Church does not say that morality belongs purely to her… but that education belongs to her in a very special way” (n.15-16).
Instead, the Newman Guide adopts the conciliar sect’s naturalistic framework from Gravissimum Educationis (1965), which subordinates Catholic education to secular authorities and ecumenical dialogue. The guide’s six “key elements” omit essential markers of true Catholic education:
1. Formation for the social reign of Christ the King (Quas Primas 18)
2. Thomistic philosophy as the only permissible foundation (Aeterni Patris 29)
3. Latin as the language of liturgy and theology (Veterum Sapientia 1)
4. Complete rejection of false religions (Mortalium Animos 2)
Statistical Deception Concealing Modernist Destruction
While lamenting a “55% decline in Catholic school enrollment over 50 years,” the article avoids identifying the true cause: the conciliar revolution’s destruction of Catholic identity. As Cardinal Giuseppe Siri observed in 1967: “The crisis of catechesis and education arose after the Council and because of the Council.” The Newman Society’s solution – recommending schools aligned with post-conciliar standards – perpetuates the crisis under the pretense of solving it.
Derek Tremblay’s claim that Newman Guide college graduates “still practice their faith” proves nothing, since Vatican II redefined “practice” to mean vague spiritual sentiment rather than adherence to defined dogmas. As the Jesuit theologian Leonard Feeney correctly noted: “Outside the Church there is no salvation – not just ‘no salvation,’ but no grace, no faith, no charity.” The Newman Guide schools teach precisely the opposite by promoting false ecumenism.
Antichurch Usurpation of Parental Rights
The article celebrates how Molly Metzgar used the guide to find a school when “moving across the country,” ignoring Pius XI’s teaching that parents have absolute priority in education:
“The family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right to educate the offspring, a right inalienable because inseparably joined to a strict obligation” (Divini Illius Magistri 35).
By positioning itself as arbiter of Catholic identity, the Newman Society usurps parental rights while promoting schools that likely:
– Use corrupted liturgical texts
– Employ female “teachers” in violation of Quam Inguis (1910)
– Teach evolution as fact contrary to Humani Generis (36)
– Permit coeducation condemned by Pius XI (Divini Illius Magistri 65)
Theological Poison in “Graduate Programs”
The inclusion of graduate programs constitutes particular danger, as post-conciliar seminaries and theology departments:
– Reject the dogmatic canons of Trent and Vatican I
– Teach biblical criticism condemned in Lamentabili
– Promote false religions through “interfaith dialogue”
When the guide claims schools must teach “objective reality, including transcendent truth,” it parrots the conciliar sect’s Gaudium et Spes (16) while denying the Church’s exclusive custody of truth. True Catholic education forms students to “bring all things captive to Christ” (2 Cor 10:5), not dialogue with error.
This Newman Guide expansion completes the conciliar sect’s takeover of Catholic education – baptizing Modernism while burying Tradition. As Our Lord warned: “Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up” (Matt 15:13).
Source:
Newman Guide adds Catholic elementary, secondary, graduate school sections (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 24.11.2025