Sounds like they didn't care about the church, either.
And how is blowing air horns outside the school supposed to do to pay for half-empty schools?
Probably have to revive that long-lost and forgotten term “WHITE FLIGHT”. Those who can leave have left and the rest are packing their bags. Philadelphia is totally third-world in the city. Very high murder rate.
The people pulling the strings behind the catholic church were Italians. They didn’t care about their own and even less about southern Germanic people.
They stuck us with a priest previously from South Philly, an Italian neighborhood and they didn’t take care of them either. Priest had health issues and was not up to the job of starting a new parish.
My best friend married a girl from South Philly. His protestant reverend or whatever gave a nice sermon at the wedding.
The catholic priest from her parish at her wedding in South Philly spoke about how nice it was he would come down into the neighborhood and marry a local girl, insinuating he elevated this “trash” above the neighborhood. She was a great girl, he picked well. What kind of a**hole would say that in a sermon? I was there and remember it well. I was in the wedding party and couldn’t believe my ears.
I could tell tales for about two days about how bad the archdiocese of Philly was. I’m just scratching the surface.
At least we didn’t have pedophiles back then, before they started recruiting gay priests.