Alabama’s Released Time Law: A Symptom of the Conciliar Sect’s Abdication of Catholic Education
EWTN News portal reports that Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed Senate Bill 248, the “Alabama Released Time Credit Act,” allowing public school students to be excused for off-campus religious instruction. The article frames this as a victory for “parental rights” and “religious liberty,” citing the 1952 Supreme Court case Zorach v. Clauson and praising the law for keeping parents “in the driver’s seat” regarding their children’s education. This entire narrative, however, is a profound symptom of the post-conciliar apostasy: it accepts the premise that the state has authority over the education of Catholic children, reduces religious instruction to an elective “off-campus” activity, and reveals the complete failure of the conciliar sect to uphold the Church’s immutable teaching that education belongs primarily to the Church and parents under her authority, not to the secular state.




