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Ireland’s education bureaucrats have ordered the removal of Father John Conmee S.J. and the world of James Joyce from the national curriculum, casting the priest, the novelist, and the whole Catholic order that sustained them out of English, history, and religious studies alike.
The same clerks who once boasted of Ireland’s Catholic patrimony now enforce a leveling curriculum that treats the Church’s historic presence in Dublin and its missions as an embarrassment to be excised, repeating in clumsier form the French revolutionaries’ 1793 attempt to replace Catholic steeples and creeds with the Cult of the Supreme Being.
Behind the curriculum change stands the Managerial Priesthood of the modern Irish state, an administrative class that measures every inheritance by the standard of egalitarian utility and finds the ordered hierarchy of Christian culture intolerable.
The act violates the governing principle that education belongs first to the household and the Church, not the bureaucratic state, a principle the undivided Church defended from the patristic era through the medieval universities and the Reformation settlements that preserved confessional schooling under parental and ecclesiastical authority.
When the nation severs its children from the concrete memory of Conmee’s charity and Joyce’s Catholic cosmos, it dissolves the covenantal bond between generations that alone transmits the faith, the language, and the moral order required for a people to endure.
The Faithful Remnant must therefore withdraw its children from the state’s deracinating syllabus and rebuild parallel schools and households that restore the canon, the creed, and the paternal authority the present regime has declared obsolete.
History records that nations which permit the state to raze the steeple and the schoolroom do not long survive as Christian peoples; the judgment now falls on Irish fathers to choose whether they will hand their sons to the Dispossessors or raise them in the City of God.
