167 Year Old California Catholic School Removes Statues of Mary and Jesus to be More Inclusive

GP ^ | 08/25/17 | Jim Hoft

[Alberta's Child]

I’m sure traditional Catholics wrote off that school as a fraud years ago.

[Dilbert San Diego]

yes, this is stunning. A Catholic school removing religious symbols, to be “inclusive”??

Heck, religions have their rituals and symbols and theologies.

The people running this place are out of their minds in some ways. Apologies if this offends anyone. But someone running a Catholic institution, and has the attitude that they need to minimize or exclude symbols of their religion,to prove to the outside world that they are tolerant or inclusive or liberal, is not thinking straight.

[Molon Labbie]

Pontius Pilate allowed Christ to be crucified, but Politicus Correctisimus murdered Him all over again...

[Bon mots]

Great idea. Tear down the whole building while you're at it.

The suicide of the West.

[Deplorable American1776]

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[Dilbert San Diego]

There are many liberal or non-Catholics who send their children to Catholic schools to take advantage the usually superior education. These families are easily offended by traditional Catholicism so accomodations are made to not be “too Catholic” Ask me how I know..

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How do you know?

As far as the money aspect of things, is it really worth it, to water down the Catholic atmosphere of the school, just to raise money? IF it’s watered down so much that the school is more non-denominational, then what’s the point?

If the school can’t survive financially, maybe it’s for the best, if to survive financially, it can’t be an actual Catholic school anymore. Just a thought.

[Vaduz]

Isis winks

[huldah1776]

Anything for a buck?

[AustinBill]

According to their web site, San Domenico is an "independent" school. They make no claims to being a Catholic school, so this move would be consistent with that claim.

According to the school's history page they clearly were established as a Catholic school in 1850. The claim that they were established as California's "first independent and first Catholic" school smacks of revisionism. I suspect they were simply a Catholic school originally. The published "history" makes no specific note of when they dropped their Catholic affiliation or whether they simply decided to "expand" their identity to include open apostasy.

[Alberta's Child]

No offense taken. I know quite a few traditional Catholic families. I don’t think I can name a single one that sends their kids to a parish school or one of these silly faux-Catholic schools.

[jeffc]

Someday, probably sooner rather than later, the only way to get into a real church will be like being a part of the colonial era Committees of Correspondence....

[samtheman]

When do they post the verses from the koooran that mandate killing Christians?

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I don’t know when they do it but until they do it they aren’t being very inclusive, are they?

[Vigilanteman]

I sent my eldest daughter to a Catholic school even though we are not Catholic precisely because of the values they taught. It was the closest thing available and affordable in a good values based education.

[bk1000]

“Inclusive”: pandering to homos or muslims.

[Viking2002]

A Christian school which takes down statues of Jesus from fear of offending non-Christians, is no longer a Christian school. It’s a den of cowards.

[oh8eleven]

They removed all of them from our church long ago....and added a geetar ...
Was only home a week from VN and the first Mass I went to was a "Folk Mass" with dirty, long haired hippies up on the altar.
That was it for me.

[Vendome]

“Hey, Barabbas. I’m not getting on this cross....for you”

[publius911]

Less religion; More PC and relativism.
A unique school brought down to the level of new "normal" with all its perversions.

[PIF]

No it is reasonable .. its just in preparation for the conversion of the church to a mosque ...

[Vendome]