The Slow Death of Catholic Education Under Conciliar Apostasy
The EWTN News portal (February 5, 2026) reports four developments in US “Catholic” education: Benedictine College severing ties with Mount St. Scholastica sisters due to their aging community and governance burdens; Dartmouth’s new provost Santiago Schnell criticizing Ivy League models; Iowa Catholic schools increasing enrollment through state funding; and Pittsburgh diocese expanding financial aid via anonymous donations. Each development reveals the conciliar sect’s complete surrender to naturalism and abandonment of Catholic educational principles.
Collapse of Religious Life Mirrors Conciliar Ecclesiology
The departure of Benedictine sisters from college governance exemplifies the post-conciliar destruction of religious life. Dean Joe Wurtz’s admission that “the aging religious community has faced difficulties keeping up with the popular Newman Guide school’s growth” betrays the heresy of activism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When men are dominated by material things, it is impossible for them to strive after the things of the spirit” (QP §18). The sisters’ inability to meet board demands exposes how Vatican II’s Perfectae Caritatis destroyed monastic discipline by replacing ora et labora with social activism.
This institutional collapse stems directly from abandoning corporate governance according to the mind of the Church (Canon 501, 1917 CIC). When Wurtz states “the demands of the board are heavy compared to their other things“, he unconsciously admits the conciliar sect’s bureaucratic structures have displaced the supernatural hierarchy established by Christ the King. The proposed medical school’s “complexity” demonstrates worldly ambition replacing sapientia Christiana – precisely what Pius XI condemned as “the cult of man” in his Syllabus of Modern Errors.
Bureaucratic Usurpation of Ecclesiastical Authority
The board’s demands for rotating sisters at executive meetings violate the divine constitution of the Church. As Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Proposition 77). By subjecting religious to secular governance models, Benedictine College implements the condemned liberal principle of separation between spiritual and temporal orders.
The sisters’ silent withdrawal – without citing doctrinal differences – confirms their assimilation into conciliar indifferentism. True Benedictines would have denounced the medical school’s inevitable compromise with secular bioethics, remembering Pius XII’s warning: “Catholic hospitals must not be content merely with avoiding cooperation in evil; they must positively counteract it” (Address to Hospital Administrators, 1957). Their failure to resist demonstrates how Vatican II turned contemplatives into corporate functionaries.
Dartmouth’s “Reform” Embodies Modernist Deception
Santiago Schnell’s critique of Ivy League schools as “negative role models” constitutes psychological projection. His call for “intellectual diversity” deliberately avoids affirming Veritatis Splendor – that Christ alone is “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). When this mathematical biologist claims universities should provide “tools to question and seek truth“, he promotes the condemned modernist error that “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 58).
His Notre Dame pedigree reveals the problem: This institution abandoned its Catholic identity when it honored Obama in 2009. Schnell’s appeal to the “Catholic invention” of universities is historically accurate but theologically hollow. As Pius XI taught: “It is necessary not only that religious instruction be given to the young at certain fixed times, but also that every other subject taught be permeated with Christian piety” (Divini Illius Magistri §80). Dartmouth remains firmly secular – no amount of “Catholic” window-dressing changes its Godless curriculum.
State Funding as Spiritual Poison
Iowa’s 3% enrollment increase through Education Savings Accounts constitutes spiritual suicide. The Iowa Catholic Conference’s boast that “ESAs are being used increasingly by lower-income families” ignores Pius IX’s condemnation: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Syllabus, Proposition 24). By accepting Caesar’s money, these schools become state subsidiaries – exactly what St. Pius X warned against in Vehementer Nos: “When the State once more claims control over education, the Church will be forced to resist such an unjust pretension“.
The 10% increase in reduced-price lunch recipients proves these schools now serve Mammon, not God. As the False Fatima Apparitions document warns about Masonic strategies: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists“. Iowa’s Catholic schools have been captured by the same secular humanism that controls public education – differing only by superficial religious decoration.
Anonymous Donations: Trojan Horses for Modernism
Pittsburgh diocese’s “significant Educational Improvement Tax Credit gift from an anonymous donor” reeks of Masonic infiltration. True Catholic philanthropy follows St. Paul’s principle: “Let all things be done decently and according to order” (1 Cor 14:40). Anonymous large donations inevitably carry ideological strings, as Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes demonstrated by accepting Rockefeller funds.
Bishop Eckman’s gratitude for “forming students in faith, knowledge, and service” omits the primary purpose of Catholic education: salvation of souls. This tripartite slogan echoes the Masonic triad of “liberty, equality, fraternity” rather than the veritas of Christ the King. As Pius XI declared: “There can be no true education which is not wholly directed to man’s last end” (Divini Illius Magistri §7). Pittsburgh’s financial aid expansion serves social mobility, not sanctification.
Omissions Reveal Apostate Priorities
Throughout this report, four fatal silences condemn the conciliar sect:
1. No mention of students attending Mass or receiving sacraments
2. Absence of statistics on vocations stemming from these schools
3. Failure to reference the Blessed Virgin Mary as Patroness of Catholic education
4. Complete neglect of the Church’s missionary mandate to “teach all nations” (Matt 28:19)
The sisters’ departure without doctrinal protest proves Benedictine College has long abandoned religio vera. When Wurtz claims “they did not cite differences in mission or politics“, he admits these nuns no longer guard the Deposit of Faith. As the Defense of Sedevacantism document proves: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). By extension, institutions upholding conciliar errors cannot form Catholic minds.
True Catholic education flourishes only where the Social Reign of Christ the King is proclaimed without compromise. As Pius XI decreed: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas §19). Until the conciliar sect repudiates Vatican II and returns to Tradition, its schools remain factories producing naturalistic humanists – not saints.
Source:
Sisters part ways with Benedictine College due to aging community, increased demands (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.02.2026