A pair of high school students gave their planned graduation speeches to a crowd outside the auditorium where their commencement ceremony was held after their Catholic school found the addresses were too political.

Valedictorian Christian Bales, 18, was told just hours before his graduation at Holy Cross High School in Kentucky on Friday that he wouldn’t be permitted to give the speech, ABC News reported.

Student Council President Katherine Frantz was also blocked from delivering her address at the ceremony.

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A spokesman for the Diocese of Covington told ABC News that “when the proposed speeches were received, they were found to contain elements that were political and inconsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church.”

He added that the students submitted the speeches after a deadline.

Both students instead gave the speeches on bullhorns outside the auditorium after the commencement ceremony.

Bales used his speech to praise the Parkland, Fla., shooting survivors for their efforts to pass gun control, mention his and Frantz’s calls to remove a Confederate statue from the Kentucky State Capitol, and praise other students who participated in an anti-abortion March for Life.

" 'The young people will win' is a mantra that I'm sure many of you have heard if you've been attentive to the media recently,” Bales said in his speech. “It's a phrase adopted by the prolific [Marjory] Stoneman Douglas teenagers [from Parkland, Fla.] who are advocating for an agenda — our rights to feel secure as humans."

" 'The young people will win' because we're finished being complacent," he said. "There's a misguided notion that wisdom is directly proportional to age, but we're disproving that daily. Sometimes the wisest are the youngest in our lives, the ones who haven't yet been desensitized to the atrocities of our world."