[ThomasMore]

Assumption College = Almost Catholic

At one time it stood for Anti-Catholic. Some friends of ours sent their two daughters there back in the eigthies? and they came out athiest! They are still heartbroken. But I've heard that it has been converted from its former pagan ways and is trying to regain its former Catholic identity.

[american colleen]

Yes, I knew a few Assumption Grads and I think I knew more about Catholicism than they did. I was talking about Confession yesterday with a friend of mine who graduated from Stonehill College (Holy Cross Fathers) in the early 80's. She said that they did away with it and she knows this is true because at college, the priests would, at gatherings, give everyone present general absolution. She's a fairly regular churchgoer. I asked her what she thought about "whoever's sins you forgive are forgiven and whoever's sins you retain are retained" in the bible, and she said "you don't believe everything in the bible, do you?"