But not in England. The Catholic bishops there are calling for all Catholic schools to open Muslim prayer rooms and facilities for Muslim kids to go through their pre-prayer cleaning rituals.

I’m guessing the Muslim parents are sending their kids to the Catholic schools in the first place for a better education, but for the Catholic schools to subjugate their own faith for that of their Muslims students is really frustrating. The Catholic church in England must be hard up for money.

But this is not unprecedented, however, for Catholic leaders to acquiesce to Muslims. In August of last year, a Catholic bishop in the Netherlands recommended that we all refer to God as Allah for the purpose of getting along.  And in September of last year, The University of Dayton, a Catholic university, opened Muslim prayer rooms.

All this deferential treatment of the Muslim faith is one more reason why Catholic churches are having a negative affect on the faith of its Catholic students. According to 2003 study,  many Catholic students who graduated from Catholic universities left with an antagonistic view of their own faith.

It’s really a shame. I was baptized Catholic, attended catechism, received my first communion, and was confirmed. I don’t attend Mass or really practice the faith anymore because my husband is non-denominational Protestant and when we met he was much more involved in his church that I was in mine. But we talk a lot about Christianity and what he and I actually believe. After reading so much of CS Lewis, William F. Buckley and other Catholic writers, he respects and likes Catholicism. In fact, he said a while ago that if there were a Catholic church nearby us that suited us, he’d wouldn’t mind attending there. Personally, I’d love to go back to attending Mass.  But that’s a topic for another day.