I confess to having mixed feelings about the recent case in which the Court ruled that Oklahoma cannot deny charter status to a school just because it is Catholic.

On the one hand, the decision is clearly correct.  Certainly this sort of discrimination by the state on the basis of faith should not be allowed, provided that the faith accords with natural law.  (I would certainly discriminate against a religion of assassination.)

However, whether the Church is well-advised to take advantage of benefits such as those which charter schools receive is another question.  Since money always has strings attached -- and the strings get shorter and stronger over time -- other ways must be found to make Catholic education available to those who desire it.

Making it available is especially necessary in view of the degeneration of the public schools.  Please let’s not blather about religious “neutrality.”  So called secular education is not neutral, but reflects a bias against faith in favor of irreligion.

In fact, even that way of putting it is not precisely accurate.  It isn’t that public schools have no god; in fact they place many gods before God.  Superficial thinkers suppose that unconditional loyalties – whether of the “woke” or another variety -- don’t count as religion just because they don’t use the word “god” for their gods.  But the crux of the matter does not lie in the words they use.