Archbishop Golka: The U.S. Supreme Court can save Colorado’s Catholic education
It's not just the rights of Catholics on the line at the United States Supreme Court next week, Archbishop Golka wrote in an op-ed in The Denver Post on Sunday. It's the freedom of all Americans to practice their beliefs.
As the Archdiocese of Denver, St. Mary Catholic Virtue School and local Catholic families prepare to head to Washington, DC, for a Supreme Court hearing in St. Mary v. Roy, the Denver archbishop shared on the beauty and mission of Catholic education and why this case is so important.
"In our age of hyper-secularization, moral relativism, and technological reductionism, we urgently need schools that teach students who they truly are: immortal souls, beloved by God, capable of the good and the virtuous," Archbishop Golka wrote in The Denver Post. "Too often today our society teaches them the opposite. It feeds them the lie that their existence is an accident and that their lives have no higher purpose or deeper meaning. The predictable result is a culture unmoored from truth, adrift in confusion."
For three years, the Archdiocese of Denver, St. Mary and local Catholic families have fought this "targeted discrimination," he noted. On November 3, the case will appear before the Supreme Court.
"I call on Americans nationwide to pray that justice prevails," the archbishop wrote.
With a long history of service in Catholic schools, the Golka family knows well the power of truly Catholic education. When the state tries to dictate what that means, everyone suffers, the archbishop argued.
"Our family loves Catholic education because it teaches not only how to think but how to live," Archbishop Golka concluded. "The Supreme Court must ensure that future generations can still receive that gift."
Read the full op-ed on The Denver Post's website.
