DEI Is a Trojan Horse Inside the Catholic School, by Dan Maher

Parents seeking an alternative to public schools may look to their local Catholic school, but all Catholic schools are not the same. Caveat emptor.

By Dan Maher, Catholic World Report, April 3, 2023

Dan Maher is a retired secondary public school teacher who graduated from Dallas Jesuit and Xavier University. His Substack is Jesuit School, and he maintains a website, The Jesuit School: Ensnared in the Postmodern World, for anyone interested in Jesuit education.

A school with an office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is not a self-confidently Catholic school. The school’s leaders believe social justice requires bolstering the Cross of Christ, the Gospels, and Catholic social teaching with an identity-based ideology whose high priests include Ibram Kendi, Robin Diangelo, and Judith Butler.

Disguised as Catholic values, DEI enters the school as a trojan horse, disseminating Critical theory dogma regarding race, gender, and sexuality. In practice, DEI overwhelms the virtues.

Bureaucratic DEI fiefdoms, deeply entrenched in higher education, including at most Catholic universities and colleges, have infiltrated every major institution (government, military, corporate, the arts, sports, media). …

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