Interestingly, the church that persecuted Galileo, condemned the Encyclopédie of Diderot, and fulminated against the Enlightenment, still runs provincial schools in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta at the expense of all taxpayers there, teaching children the facts that the late BVM (Blessed Virgin Mary) was bodily assumed into heaven (infallibly proclaimed in 1950) and that she visited Portugal in 1917.  The premier of Saskatchewan has invoked the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution to ensure that teaching these facts to non-Catholic children is not interrupted by a ruling from a justice of the court of Queen's Bench.