Resources

Resources (sample communications)

Resources (Catholic teachings)

Please note: All communications linked in these pages contain reference to Catholic teaching, summarize Catholic teaching, and can be quoted and used as appropriate. The following are all issued directly by the Vatican. Various communications summarize these documents.

For a comprehensive identification of the Gospel errors associated with “woke” teachings, see https://eppc.org/publication/woke-catholic-schools-offer-poison-in-place-of-the-gospel/.

Resources (letters)

• Letter to Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento upon threat of retaliation by Jesuit High School Administrator against parent voicing objections through Concerned Parents group, with attachments (Tabs A to M within letter, describing each attachment).

• Other letters and communications are maintained elsewhere, such as in the Resources/Catholic teachings link, or Resources/Canon Law link.

Resources (links to theologians and educators)

Resources (canon law and lawyers)

Resources (lawsuits)

Resources (other schools)

Gonzaga High School (Jesuit-founded, Spokane) weblink promoting radicalism, in embracing race-factionalism and the “bipoc” group’s call for deconstruction of the United States:
https://www.gprep.com/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=2013194&type=d&pREC_ID=2095872, citing to https://www.thebipocproject.org/about-us. Gonzaga, as the link shows, promotes the work of the “bipoc” group.

• Loyola.  Alumni, donors and students have commissioned a website designed to showcase the many errors in play at Loyola, including the hiring of an atheist, Robbin Crabtree, as Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberals Arts, which includes Loyola’s theology department.  The Bellarmine College is named for St. Robert Bellarmine, a 16^th century Jesuit.  St. Robert’s writings and reflections survive, including this one:  “When we appeal to the throne of grace we do so through Mary, honoring God by honoring His Mother, imitating Him by exalting her, touching the most responsive chord in the sacred heart of Christ with the sweet name of Mary.”  Appointing an atheist as dean of a college named for him is a remarkable event.  In defending the choice, the now-President of University of San Francisco (Jesuit-founded) Paul Fitzgerald, SJ, then of Fairfield College, Crabtree’s previous employer, listed the reasons she was such a wise choice to promote Jesuit education: “I cannot tell you how strong a supporter of Jesuit education Robbin is. She is deeply and passionately committed to higher education in the Jesuit model–its intellectual rigor, its integrative ways of thinking, knowing, and doing, its civic engagement, and its focus on social responsibility.”  There is no mention in this list of salvation, the baptism of souls, the path to eternity, or that scripture-based life on Earth is the surest path to heaven itself?

  Loyola Marymount University has “evolved” to become a particularly striking exhibit of the removal of Catholic teachings from self-described “Catholic” colleges.  The website www.RenewLMU.com extensively details how comprehensively Loyola has strayed.  Loyola’s institutional contempt for teaching Catholicism is broad and comprehensive, reaching even the presentation of Salvation message itself.  The popular AMDG seen in Jesuit literature means “for the Greater Glory of God.”  Ignatius of Loyola originated the phrase, but there was more of it when he conceived of it:  Ad maiorem Dei gloriam inque hominum salutem or “for the greater glory of God and the salvation of humanity.”  Removing the Salvation message eliminated Salvation as an emphasis, meaning “salvation” was now a changing concept, unheard of in the Church outside of several old heresies now gone for centures.  By removing Salvation, de-emphasizing it, and not teaching it, the door opens wide to the teaching of error instead.  This is certainly how it came to be that Loyola Marymount allows an atheist to define the Salvation message, and hire and reward professors accordingly. Loyola and elements of its faculty removed the ingredient of the Divine from Salvation, and replaced it with the notion of “living the correct social message” as constituting a path to salvation. What’s more, this was all publicly announced by Loyola’s Dean of the Bellarmine School of Liberal Arts, the same Robbin Crabtree, atheist and former Planned Parenthood Board Member. Dr. Crabtree’s atheism would not be a matter of concern if she occupied a position in a secular university. But in taking an executive role in the shaping of the Theology and Philosophy Departments of a self-described and canonically Catholic school, it is of great concern. The silence of the institutional Jesuits is a matter of grave concern too. While the Society may not directly control LMU, it operates in the name of the Jesuits and operates as “Catholic” under the authority of the local bishop, the very faithful Archbishop Jose Gomez. For the Society of Jesus to tolerate this extraordinary waywardness in defiance of Church teaching and in contempt for the authority of the local bishop risks misleading the faithful and malforming our Catholic young people. The press release linked here: https://bellarminenews.lmu.edu/lmu-bellarmine-college-of-liberal-arts-installs-new-endowed-chair-in-catholic-theology-and-professor-in-jain-studies/ . 

  From the Press Release:

  Robbin D. Crabtree, Ph.D., dean of the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, emphasized that LMU is the right place for Professors Pineda-Madrid and Miller to do their work. “We maintain an active commitment to the study of multiple faith traditions as part of our Catholic/Jesuit/Marymount tradition to form persons for others and educate students holistically,” said Crabtree. “Pineda-Madrid and Miller will have a profound impact on our students and their colleagues through their thoughtful scholarship and teaching.”

  Nancy Pineda-Madrid was installed as the holder of the T. Marie Chilton Chair in Catholic Theology during a virtual event on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. As part of the ceremony, Pineda-Madrid delivered a lecture titled “To Believe In the God Who Saves” that explored the enduring theological question of salvation; challenging spiritual individualism and offering a vision for a more inclusive, social salvation relevant to our present time and place.

  “We must reimagine salvation by emphasizing its social dimension thereby challenging the exclusive and narrowly individual understanding,” said Pineda-Madrid. “An understanding of salvation calls all disciples of Jesus Christ to the pursuit of justice and solidarity with others who are not members of our family, who are not people we know as friends, who are not members of our religion, ethnicity, tribe, our race, our nation, our country.”

  Prior to her appointment at LMU, Pineda-Madrid was an associate professor of theology and Latinx/a ministry at Boston College, where she taught for 14 years. She earned her B.B.A. from LMU, her Master of Divinity degree from Seattle University and a Ph.D. in systematic and philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Pineda-Madrid is a leading voice in U.S. Latinx theologies, as well as U.S. and global feminist theologies.

• USF.  In 2013, USF historian and current dean Alan Ziajka stated publicly: “There are times when there’s a tension between liberal USF and more traditional views at the Vatican,” said Ziajka, the [University of San Francisco] historian. ‘We try to imbue students with Jesuit values. The idea is that we’re not out to convert souls, but to pursue social justice and improve people’s lives.’” (San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2013.)
• For an alumni (USF and Jesuit Sacramento) reflection on the detachment of justice from salvation, linked please find “Detach Justice from Salvation and Watch the Furies Fly In.”

Loyola Academy, Wilmette, Illinois (Jesuit). “LA Concerned Parents” letter (PDF) identifying comprehensive error in Loyola Academy (Illinois) teaching. Letter dated August 18, to the Board of Trustees, Loyola Academy.

Carondolet High School, Concord, California (Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet). Public display in school building promoting and glamorizing gender reassignment in minors, showcasing a minor, born male, popularized at age 7 as being “transgendered”, with surgical reassignment occurring at age 18, and who now self-refers as being “pansexual” (sexual attraction not limited to specific gender). At this school (as at so many others nationwide), there is no corresponding public showcasing of monogamy, sacramental marriage, or any other genuinely Catholic teaching.

Resources (objectionable materials)

• Resources (objectionable materials) (curricula, web links and sample assignments, from Jesuit High School, Sacramento, and from other schools across the country).
• Jesuit High School (Sacramento):  Examples from Jesuit High School (Sacrament) are contained in the multiple communications sent to Jesuit’s Administration and the Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento between October 6, 2021, and June 3, 2021.  Further assignments not previously posted will be are placed here, including the following new assignment:
• The assignment below was made on May 10, 2021, by a newly-ordained Jesuit priest.  His exact pastoral experience with young men in high school settings is unknown.  In this assignment, Fr. Perry Petrich SJ is presenting materials against explicit claims made by the school Administration that the materials are no longer in use.  The Petrich Assignment pertained to a supposedly “student” letter (whose tone and content did not appear to be “student”-driven at all) that originally prompted the Concerned Parents of Jesuit High School to communicate their concerns by their letter dated October 6, 2021 (posted in Resources – Communications).  The “student” letter had not been released to parents, yet their sons were asked school-wide to sign it, petition-style.  Word got out and parents complained.  Jesuit’s Administration resisted the complaints, and was hostile to parents who did complain.  Later, once the letter was released and posted on the school’s website after parent demands, Jesuit’s Administration in early Spring 2021 stated the “student” letter had been removed from Jesuit High School classrooms as a teaching tool.  Obviously, that was not accurate.  Here it is again on May 10, 2021, and offered not as a philosophical inquiry into the accuracy or inaccuracy of the “student” letter, but accepting it as true and correct, and directing students to “thank” their brother students for writing it.  The letter was captured by a screenshot of a student’s home screen, another example of distance learning providing access to materials the school otherwise does not disclose – and in this case, misrepresented as having been removed from the curriculum.
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• In the following assignment, a Jesuit freshman English teacher invited the young boys in his class to reflect on their gender identity. The bottom corner of the handout (accessed by parent screen capture) shows the source to be, not an authentically Catholic educational resource, but the University of Michigan.

• The University of Michigan website noted on the handout contains further teachings expanding on these classifications, identifying as “privileged” being Christian, cisgendered (i.e., if one identifies with his or her birth gender), “abled” (i.e., able-bodied), and male.

• Gonzaga Prep (Spokane), discussed elsewhere on this website, imposes the objectionable teachings on its students, including by using resources from St. Mary’s Press and elsewhere. While St. Mary’s Press identifies itself as “Catholic,” we cannot locate on its website whether it actually functions with the endorsement of any bishop, or other source of Church authority. Merely calling itself Catholic does not mean it is, as a matter of Canon Law and theology, authentically “Catholic.” The teachings from St. Mary’s Press captured by screen shot suggest St. Mary’s Press is adrift too:

• The West Coast source of (and inspiration for) these objectionable teachings at Jesuit High School, Gonzaga and elsehwere:  the Jesuits West Province.
• Jesuit High School, Sacramento, is located within the Jesuits West Province of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).  There are multiple provinces in the United States, but fewer than there used to be.  This is because of consolidation resulting from low numbers of vocations and priests.  What used to be the separate Oregon and California provinces are now consolidated as the “Jesuits West Province,” geographically encompassing CA, OR, WA, NV, ID, AZ, AK, ID, MT, UT and HI.  However, high schools and colleges are located only in CA (Jesuit HS Sacramento, Loyola HS LA, St. Ignatius Prep SF, Bellarmine Prep San Jose, Xavier Prep Palm Desert, Cristo Rey HS Sacramento, Verbum Dei HS LA, Loyola Marymount U, USF, and Santa Clara U), OR (Jesuit Portland), WA (Seattle U, Seattle U High School, Gonzaga U, Gonzaga U Prep, and Bellarmine Tacoma), and AZ (Brophy Prep).  Following are examples of objectionable materials presented by the Province and samples from Province high schools:
• https://www.jesuitswest.org/our-work/faith-doing-justice/:  The Province has designated Annie Fox as its highest ranking designee for matters of faith and justice in its schools, a body of work that includes the teaching of “white privilege” and “systemic racism.”  Ms. Fox is not a Roman Catholic, has no expertise in juvenile psychology, and has as her chief professional history being involved in “organizing.”  St. Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuits.  His motto was “for the greater glory of God and the salvation of humanity.”  The “salvation of humanity,” despite being a founding precept of the Jesuit order, is no longer prioritized, forsaking the very purpose of Catholic teaching and theology.
  
• https://www.jesuitswest.org/our-work/faith-doing-justice/organizing-across-ministries/: Despite the command in New Testament scripture that “unity” is central to Christianity (a message included even in the prayers of consecration at Holy Mass), the Province has explicitly adopted core teachings of Critical Race Theory, including the concept of “privilege,” including “white privilege.” The below screen capture shows specialized assignments for “white leaders.” There is no scriptural basis for such teaching, and use of “Ignatius” or “Ignatian” to describe is simply to give false cover to illegitimate and anti-Christian teachings. The Concerned Parents and their Canon Lawyer Laura Morrison have extensively addressed these concepts and their illegitimacy in numerous writings, all now posted throughout this website.
  
  

   

• Further Jesuits West materials, accessible as of April 18, 2022, showing the narrow path the Province’s schools seek for students of Province high schools. One document includes two statements reported by staff/faculty from Jesuit Sacramento, including “continuing to wrestle with inviting students in when the mission can be counter cultural to family.” The same document also speaks of the goal to replace “service” with “justice education.” The documents attached demonstrate what this “justice education” must consist of. The documents also include an all-out attack on the Thanksgiving holiday, a document that also attacks the United States in multiple ways, refers to the holiday as a “fraud,” and inaccurately recounts from a long-standing radicalized perspective the history of the nation.

• Other schools:
  • St. Louis University High School (St. Louis): Similar to assignments elsewhere, the St. Louis University High School English teacher who issued this test direct his student about how and what to think, using the Mark Twain masterpiece “Tom Sawyer” as an example of white supremacy. Teachings like this limit thought, do not invite inquiry, and presents a false and exceedingly narrow view of literature to vulnerable and impressionable youth.

• Academy of the Holy Names (Tampa): According to a lawsuit filed by significant donors, Academy of the Holy Names (founded by an order of women, the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary), the Academy abandoned Catholic teaching in favor of race theory and companion teachings. The lawsuit alleged that the school was not forthright in taking donor funds, never disclosing its course change, resulting in a form of fraud. (See, https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/21/tampa-florida-catholic-high-school-scarpo-academy-holy-names/.) This same dynamic is operative across the country, and forms one of the grounds for the canonical action now underway against Jesuit High School (Sacramento): the failure of the school to disclose to parents and donors that it had incorporated the objectionable teachings into its curriculum.
• Archbishop Mitty (San Jose, California). In 2020, Bishop Oscar Cantu appointed Latanya Hilton as President of Archbishop Mitty High School, a diocesan high school. Ms. Hilton, though a Mitty alumna, founded the Ambassadors Circle, an organization that promotes mockery of the traditional habits of Catholic Sisters (by aligning with a drag-queen group out of San Francisco whose chief distinction is to wear clothing that slurs and mocks traditional Sisters), promotes the elimination of traditional standards and teachings about sex and morality, and has actively campaigned for elimination of all abortion restrictions.

• If you have materials you’d like posted, please email it to us at [email protected]. We do remove student-identifying information, but we request that you include the name of the class, and the date the materials were distributed or came to your attention. While we respect student and parent anonymity, we must have enough information to ensure reliability. Please note that while some schools have maintained parents have no right to see materials in classroom use, this is incorrect. (See the Concerned Parents email dated July 31, 2021, posted in “Resources – Communications”, for background on schools’ deliberate concealments of materials from parents. Within the Catholic school setting, this is a breach of Canon Law, for all of the reasons made clear in multiple Concerned Parents’ communications.

Resources/Other Materials

Mr. Rufo is a Senior Fellow at The Manhattan Institute, which also produced a parent primer on “woke” teachings, attached.  (Link:  https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/woke-schooling-toolkit-for-concerned-parents.pdf.)The Concerned Parents, Donors and Alumni have produced a series of Town Halls, all now available on YouTube.  The Town Halls are designed to present thoughtful parent testimonials about their children and their shock at what amounts to abuse of their young minds, their emotions, and their mental health and well-being.  The Town Halls also present alumni, parents of former students, and to place all of this in a Roman Catholic pastoral and canonical context, a Canon Lawyer.  Town Hall III also presents a child psychologist, a credentialed social worker and national activist, and two esteemed Catholic educators who have designed a path forward.  The Town Halls all feature courageous testimony describing how wayward many schools – including many Jesuit schools – have become.

1. Town Hall I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHoBtHMqBQw (parent testimonies and canon law)
2. Town Hall II:  https://youtu.be/ZPWm6jCmCXo  (parent testimonies, information gathering, and canon law)
3. Town Hall III:  https://youtu.be/cjWjEcatlZ8  (child social and emotional welfare specialists, Catholic educators and new paths forward)