Staff at CA Catholic Girls’ School Tout Dissenters and Liberals

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Staff at CA Catholic Girls’ School Tout Dissenters and Liberals

by Anita Carey • ChurchMilitant.com • December 19, 2018

Religious education department head: Fr. James Martin is a modern-day prophet

SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - Teachers at a prestigious all-girls Catholic school prove their support for heterodox ideas and the liberal agenda through social media.

Recently, Church Militant was contacted by a mother of a student at the Academy of Our Lady of Peace (OLP) wanting to warn other parents about the culture of toned-down radical feminism being fostered at the school. This family has been suffering to help their daughter keep her Catholic faith while struggling with the same-sex attractions she developed while at the school.

The report focused on the pro-LGBT charism of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, the order that founded the school, and the personal toll on the student after she was pursued by other girls at the school for an amorous relationship.

Our source, wanting to remain anonymous to protect her daughter, explained that the achievements of women were over-emphasized and the girls were taught to be self-reliant and aggressive. The social media posts of the staff certainly show the extent to which women's achievements and the liberal agenda is exalted to the students and embraced by the staff — starting with the head of the school, Dr. Lauren Lek.

In 2015, to promote the causes of International Women's Day, Lek recommended "checking out" the Clinton Foundation's No Ceilings event. While the scandals involving the Clinton Foundation were not well-known at the time, Hilary Clinton's outspoken support for abortion was.

"Safe, legal and rare" was the mantra of the Clinton administration proclaiming its support of abortion.
In another post, Lek tweeted how thrilled she was that Maria Shriver and Gwyneth Paltrow were speaking to students.
Shriver is a self-professed "cafeteria Catholic" and chooses to ignore the Church's teachings on abortion, same-sex marriage, contraception, Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried and women priests.
In 2011, Paltrow thrust herself into the national spotlight with her blog post questioning the condemnation of homosexuality in the Bible. Since that post, she has become outspoken in her support of the active homosexual lifestyle. In 2017, her site Goop published an article on anal sex as "supported by science." [warning, link contains graphic content]
The school's support for pro-abortion politicians isn't limited to the past. In November, the school hosted a California Democratic pro-abortion congresswoman, Susan Davis, for a "hip-hop dance workshop." In addition to her support of civil rights for the LGBT community, Davis is a cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act that would prohibit the government from passing new laws to limit abortion or impose more stringent standards of care.

In January, Angela Gascho, the English department chair tweeting under the handle @fablitteacher, posted an invitation to join her for the Women's March San Diego.
In another, she pushed an opinion piece that Brett Kavanaugh should not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. In still others, she retweets Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and ones disparaging President Donald Trump.
Bridgette Will, who tweeted several links to news reports favoring same-sex marriage, one featuring Nancy Pelosi and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also tweeted her thanks to @fablitteacher for getting her on the OLP staff.
Perhaps the most disturbing of the social media posts is OLP religious education department head Donna Allen's post calling Fr. James Martin a "modern day prophet." Allen regularly retweets posts from Fr. Martin and Fr. Gregory Boyle, both dissident priests that have openly challenged traditional Church teachings and doctrine.

Most recently, Fr. Martin recommended the "Rosary of Modern Sorrows," complete with a decade of rainbow-colored beads, by Contemplative Rebellion, a small online store that donates a portion of their profits to groups that support contraception, abortion and the radical leftist organization Southern Poverty Law Center.
While Contemplative Rebellion did not tinker with the Muslim and Tibetan Buddhist prayer beads they also sell, they added a blasphemous intention to the fifth decade for acceptance of the belief that God created homosexuals in His image and that this orientation is "good" — not objectively disordered as the Catholic Church teaches.
Messages celebrating women's accomplishments as the highest measure of success are routinely pushed by @OLPNews, the school's official Twitter account. You are more likely to find a post celebrating former students meeting Nancy Pelosi than you are to find one celebrating motherhood.

Church Militant reached out to Lek, but she has not responded to our query.

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Our Lord having reproached the Jews with blindness, they might have said, We are not blind, but we avoid you as a deceiver. Our Lord therefore gives the marks which distinguish a robber and deceiver from a true shepherd. First come those of the deceiver and robber: Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. There is an allusion here to Antichrist, and to certain false Christs who had been, and were to be. The Scriptures He calls the door. They admit us to the knowledge of God, they protect the sheep, they shut out the wolves, they bar the entrance to heretics. He that uses not the Scriptures, but climbs up some other way, i.e. some self-chosen, some unlawful way, is a thief. Climbs up, He says, not, enters, as if it were a thief getting over a wall, and running all risks. Some other way, may refer too to the commandments and traditions of men which the Scribes taught, to the neglect of the Law. When our Lord further on calls Himself the Door, we need not be surprised. According to the office which He bears, He is in one place the Shepherd, in another the Sheep. In that He introduces us to the Father, He is the Door, in that He takes care of us, He is the Shepherd. (Catena Aurea)

LIBERTAS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE NATURE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
35. And as to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits, and end at last by making no apparent distinction between truth and error, honesty and dishonesty. And because the Church, the pillar and ground of truth, and the unerring teacher of morals, is forced utterly to reprobate and condemn tolerance of such an abandoned and criminal character, they calumniate her as being wanting in patience and gentleness, and thus fail to see that, in so doing, they impute to her as a fault what is in reality a matter for commendation. But, in spite of all this show of tolerance, it very often happens that, while they profess themselves ready to lavish liberty on all in the greatest profusion, they are utterly intolerant toward the Catholic Church, by refusing to allow her the liberty of being herself free.

“If you want to be certain of being in the number of the Elect, strive to be one of the few, not one of the many. And if you would be quite sure of your salvation, strive to be among the fewest of the few; that is to say, do not follow the great majority of mankind, but follow those who enter upon the narrow way, who renounce the world, who give themselves to prayer, and who never relax their efforts by day or night, so that they may attain everlasting blessedness.” -Saint Anselm, Father and Doctor of the Church

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St. Vincent Ferrer -- Sermon on the Last Judgment: In the same way, in the time of Antichrist, the Sun of justice will be obscured by the interposition of temporal goods and the wealth which Antichrist will bestow on the world, inasmuch as the brightness of faith in Jesus Christ and the glow of good lives will no longer shine among Christians. For, lest they should lose their dominion, temporal rulers, kings and princes will range themselves on the side of Antichrist. In like manner, prelates for fear of losing their dignities, and religious and priests to gain honors and riches, will forsake the Faith of Christ and adhere to Antichrist.

Neither living nor lifeless faith remains in a heretic who disbelieves one article of faith. The reason of this is that the species of every habit depends on the formal aspect of the object, without which the species of the habit cannot remain. Now the formal object of faith is the First Truth, as manifested in Holy Writ and the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth. Consequently whoever does not adhere, as to an infallible and Divine rule, to the teaching of the Church, which proceeds from the First Truth manifested in Holy Writ, has not the habit of faith, but holds that which is of faith otherwise than by faith. Even so, it is evident that a man whose mind holds a conclusion without knowing how it is proved, has not scientific knowledge, but merely an opinion about it. Now it is manifest that he who adheres to the teaching of the Church, as to an infallible rule, assents to whatever the Church teaches; otherwise, if, of the things taught by the Church, he holds what he chooses to hold, and rejects what he chooses to reject, he no longer adheres to the teaching of the Church as to an infallible rule, but to his own will. Hence it is evident that a heretic who obstinately disbelieves one article of faith, is not prepared to follow the teaching of the Church in all things; but if he is not obstinate, he is no longer in heresy but only in error. Therefore it is clear that such a heretic with regard to one article has no faith in the other articles, but only a kind of opinion in accordance with his own will. (Saint Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, II-II, q. 5, a. 3)

Wednesday, December 19, 2018