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Post by amicus on Sept 10, 2018 23:34:55 GMT
It was brought to my attention through Our Lady of Victory Home Study program, that the book, "The Story of the Other Wise Man", was to be my grandson's reading assignment. I questioned the book, as I came across words that were not of Traditional Catholic origin. I questioned the use of words like, Zoraster,(God of Zoroastrianism) , Zoroastrianism (one of the world's oldest religions centered in a dualistic cosmology of good and evil and a eschatology predicting the ultimate destruction of evil), Sosiosh the Victorious (Champion of the Perse-Aryan race). Why are our children allowed to read books that bring modern, pagan ideas to their minds, either consciously, or subconsciously.
I had not heard of this book before so I figured it was a, "Born Out of Vat. II" book, but upon further investigation, I discovered the author, Henry van Dyke Jr. , who was a Presbyterian clergyman born in 1852. Maybe the children should be reading books authored by Catholics and true stories about the Birth of Our Lord and the Three Wise Men.
I have contacted Our Lady of Victory School, and have not heard back from them as of yet, (day four, doubt I will hear anything). I then brought the book to my Traditional Catholic Priests attention and he informed me to get rid of it, it is Blasphemous and should not be read.
Again, I ask why are books like this one brought in to a Traditional Catholic School and more important why is Lepanto Press printing the book. I know there must be a lot of good Traditional Catholic books that can be reprinted, ones that are filled with faith that are wholesome, adventurous, spiritual, moral, for our young to read.
My children went to Our Lady of Victory in the 80's and 90's and I did not worry about what they were getting in their curriculum , now I see modernism slowly seeping in, please watch and question what the school is doing, but above all, don't let your children read books that will cause the weakening of their faith. |
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Post by Elizabeth on Sept 11, 2018 2:19:26 GMT
I did Our Lady of Victory School and read the book, now I am not defending the book at all, I didn't even know that it was written by a Presbyterian, for me it did nothing to harm my faith. To be honest all I took out of it was the good lessons that are in our Catholic faith. Thanks for the information.
One of the things I do appreciate that I got from Our Lady of Victory School was that they taught us where all these other religious sects come from, what they believe in and why they're wrong. I learned about the Catholic Faith from their books in school that I still look in them and use what I have learned a lot.
Just a word of caution, and even Fr. Pfeiffer has said this, you have to be careful about some Catholic authors especially in the 1800s because some of them back then where already pushing modernist, Vat. II ideology and beliefs in their books. It appears that in that time there is both good and bad.
I have been reading a French series on Catholic Church history by Fr. Renee Francois Rohrbacher and in one of the books he said that some old Catholic authors he couldn't use their writings because they were bias to their opinions and therefore had to use the Protestants because they didn't add any of their beliefs or opinions, just the facts.
But thank you for the info.
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Post by amicus on Sept 11, 2018 17:35:37 GMT
I understand that there are good and bad authors both Protestant and Catholic, but this book was written in the 1800's when there was a push for modernism and reading the contents the book leans towards modernism. I believe you can get good lessons from other books that aren't filled with questionable language. It is funny how this book surfaced after Vat. II was it possible Pius X put it on the do not read list.
I approached Fr. Hewko about the book and he had not heard of it. Father didn't like the way it sounded and told me to use my judgment. Second guessing my judgment I went to Fr. Poisson who looked at the book and told me to get rid of it, it was a blasphemous. Fr. also told me to alert as many people as I could, as I am doing.
I am sorry, but I believe I will take the advice of two solid Catholic Priests and pray others do the same.
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