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Just two days after Archbishop Gerhard M\u00fcller, Vatican Prefect, speaking in Glasgow, Scotland, touted Catholic education as <\/strong>\u201ca critical component of the Church\u201d<\/strong>,<\/em> President Barack Obama stood before a crowd of 2,000 young people this morning and called for an end to Catholic education in Northern Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf towns remain divided,\u201d<\/em> said the U.S. President,<\/strong> \u201cif Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can\u2019t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden\u2014that too encourages division and discourages cooperation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Obama, who arrived in Northern Ireland this morning to attend the two-day G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne resort in Enneskillen, made the disproved claim on Monday, speaking before an audience which included many Catholics.<\/p>\n

His speech was in sharp contrast to remarks delivered on Saturday by Archbishop Gerhard M\u00fcller,<\/strong> prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.\u00a0 Archbishop M\u00fcller was in Scotland to present the prestigious Cardinal Winning Lecture on Saturday, to officially launch the St Andrews Foundation for Catholic teacher education at Glasgow University.\u00a0 According to the Scottish Catholic Observer, the CDF head said that Catholic education provided a rare place where \u201cintellectual training, moral discipline and religious commitment would come together.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 The evening before, at a Friday evening mass at St. Andrew\u2019s Cathedral in Glasgow, Archbishop M\u00fcller said that \u201cthe Catholic school is vitally important\u2026. a critical component of the Church.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 He added that Catholic education provides young people with a wonderful opportunity to \u201cgrow up with Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He contrasted St. Augustine\u2019s view,<\/strong> which is founded in the thought of Aristotle and Plato, with that of contemporary relativists and warned that relativism, if pursued to its logical conclusion, would lead to the breakdown of society.<\/p>\n

The Prefect\u2019s remarks on education are reported fully in the National Catholic Register<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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