Posted on 04/12/2008 6:53:15 AM PDT by kellynla
Yeah....sorry, that’s what I meant.
A brand new “state of the art” Catholic High School is being built in my neighborhood; I may send all my children there if it is built in time. (Right now they attend a K-8 Lutheran school.)
There is great demand for Catholic schools in the suburbs, where most children live these days. There are fewer children in the cities, where these schools are now closing.
I attended Catholic school in the 1980s, switched to a public high school, and high school was so much easier! The Catholic education was definitely more challenging and just better.
Cradle Catholic here too
St. Joseph Nuns for us
Memories of Catholic school will remain in our hearts forever. It was the BEST!!!
Payouts to molested children hasn’t helped, either.
We managed to get an excellent education, and there were very few disciplinary problems. I also got a strong grounding in the Catholic faith which has stayed with me to this day.
Where did all those good sisters go?
Nope. It was just very costly for them.
And in the government and the white house and the senate and industry and corporations and universities and on and on and on. You are either an honorable person with morals and values or you are not. Doesn’t make a damn bit of difference where you work, play or go to school.
Cradle Catholic here too
St. Joseph Nuns for us
Memories of Catholic school will remain in our hearts forever. It was the BEST!!!
>>Are Lutheran schools failing at the same rate?
In general, yes.
“Where did all those good sisters go?”
The Collapse of Religious and Priestly Vocations
“The evils in modern society - the loss of faith, contraception, sterilization, value-free sex education, abortion and the threatening euthanasia - are not only anti-life but are destroyers of families in multiple ways. What destroys families, destroys the Church.”
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Faith/0304-96/vocations.html
And the good news...
“125 percent increase in the number of inquirers
contacting religious communities
19 percent increase in those entering religious life in the past three years”
http://www.vocation-network.org/articles/read/113
No criticism intended, just wanted to make sure we were on the same page.
Best years of my life! Mass under the Pines! Ah, memories!
>>Where did all those good sisters go?
They became P.E. teachers in San Francisco...?
“Payouts to molested children hasn’t helped, either.”
and to those who weren’t...
The left is happy.
I have not met met many school nuns of late and the one I did encounter about six months back seems more liberal than nun.
me too....Sisters of Charity in grade school...
Catholic schools have ALWAYS served non-Catholics....many who are poor, with little resources...if others who could not afford private school were locked, out, maybe there wouldn’t be the financial crisis there is today...
just a little reminder folks....when referring to “Catholic” anything, generally it is the polite thing to do is to use capitals.....I do that when referring to Mormons or even Muslims...Jews for sure....
I have to admit that I am not a great, regular church going Catholic.....
but I believe my Catholic education was great, particularly in grade school....
it gave me a world view and a view of life that young people just can not grasp these days....that we are part of the world, that we are citizens, under God, that it is our responsibility to do good in this world....
we had good Sisters and not so good Sisters, but then we also had the GREAT Sisters....and we all had our favorites..
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