Faith Is Fine, Just Don’t Believe It

Douglas Farrow, in The Gazette:

Recently, the bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O’Donoghue, was interrogated by the government’s Children, Schools and Families Select Committee about his directive to diocesan schools to teach the Catholic faith and Catholic morals to their students.   That directive, according to the committee chair, Barry Sheerman, smacked of a “fundamentalism” unacceptable to the British government.  “It seems to me that faith education works all right as long as people are not that serious about their faith,” Sheerman said. “But as soon as there is a more doctrinaire attitude questions have to be asked.”

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