The Catholic schools support illegal aliens kids and others who can't or won't pay, so now the Catholic Church who claims they will support the poor are kicking the kids out and putting them in public schools where the taxpayers pick up the tab and they overcrowd yet more schools?
Cardinal Mahoney speaks with "forked tongue"?
he fought to have amnesty for the illegals than he needs to keep the kids in their Catholic schools and support them and quit pushing them on taxpayers, You all want and demand amnesty for illegals YOU all support them!!
Many of the "predominantly minority children" in those closed schools weren't even Catholic to begin with, so I see the closure of these schools as little more than a formal acknowledgement that the Catholic Church simply doesn't have a reason to be in these neighborhoods right now.
This scene is being repeated in older urban areas all over the country.
PLease notice. Cardinal Mahoney is in LA. This article is about New York. That is Cardinal Egan's jurisdiction. Regardless, the Catholic school system has reached out for years to the poor to help in education. I really don't see why this tragedy has to be turn into a thread on illegal immigration. Isn't there enough of those threads on here anyway.