Time for another "Mission from God."
Posted on 11/16/2004 4:25:45 PM PST by AskStPhilomena
About 40 Catholic schools in the Chicago area are at risk of being closed or reconfigured at the end of the school year, the Chicago Tribune said Sunday.
The closings could become the largest school shakeup in the history of the archdiocese, affecting nearly 17 percent of the nation's largest parochial system.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Great news for all the NEA. Now more kids will be stuck in the suckie inner-city publik skuls.
Unfortunately, modernist "Catholic" schools aren't any better than the public variety.
At least at public schools, you don't have dangerous sodomites masquerading as diocesan bishops.
As much as this both distresses and outrages me, it can also be viewed as a good news/bad news scenario.
Many of us know that the majority of parachial schools have long since ceased to be Catholic in any real way. A large number of them in this and other major cities cater to a mostly non-Catholic student body. Most schools teach - if not outright heresy & error, at least a very badly watered down version of Catholicism.
Along with these now built-in problems is the financial issue. These schools cost the local parish and the diocese huge sums of money to operate - AND they do not teach the faith. So, we are being robbed to pay for this charade.
This is largely the result of the nuns having burned their bras in the 60s, and refusing to teach - or demanding to be paid real salaries (despite the fact that they are on a vow of material poverty!). Hence the need for the hiring of a salaried all lay faculty.
There is also the monetary "black hole syndrome". Many pastors who have sticky fingers regularly will "launder" money through the school.....or will outright steal the Diocesan subsidy to run the school. While your local Chancery office may wish that I not write this - it is an open secret among the apostate members of the clergy. It is a joke to them.
So - as much as I do not wish to see the disappearance of the schools. There are really only two choices left: either make them function as Catholic schools for Catholic children, teaching and nurturing the faith in the young..........or shut them down.
I will give you one guess as to which of those two options my (your) Lord Bishop will opt for...........
This is exactly what the church wreckers of the New Order have dreamed of for the past 40 years, now it's coming to fruition.
It's not that bad though. I have to keep reminding myself we're in the midst of the glorious springtime fortold by John Paul "The Great".
Time for another "Mission from God."
I'm planning homeschooling myself. I never seriously entertained any other option.
You have your head up your a$$. I would take a parochial school over a public one any day.
That's net additional.
True. I would like for someone to demonstrate what made any of the schools 'Catholic'.
Why? They are run by lesbians and queers protected by a bishop in an ivory tower who answers to no one (except God of course). At least public schools have some accountability (i.e. school board meetings, etc.)
On the other hand, maybe they were too Catholic for the Archdiocese?
Over the last 30 years, under the leadership of Cardinals Cody, Bernardin, and George, Chicago Catholics have been subjected to all sorts of scandal — the worst being the sexual abuse of children and the cover-up by the hierarchy. General absolution goes on, even today, at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, and Communication Ministry, Inc. (CMI), a not-for-profit corporation whose members are homosexual clergy and religious, operates out of Chicago today, and its board of directors includes a Chicago priest and nun. (More on CMI, and its connection to the American hierarchy, in other reports contained in this newsletter).
RCF
Rest assured that Cardinal George would never close Communications Ministry Inc. - no matter how much he had to pay out for protecting sodomite priests.
Great news!
"why is it that public school teachers put their children in parochial schools?"
For most public school teachers the traditional Catholic Faith isn't a priority.
For those blessed to have the right priorities in life, the marked modernist disorientation of parochial schools doesn't present much of an advantage.
Why not teach children what's most important for their eternal souls rather than leaving them to the perverse modernists who prowl about parochial schools like hungry lions seeking souls to devour?
In the wake of Vatican 2, it's been found that less than 5% of children "educated" at "Catholic" schools keep the Faith after leaving school.
There are several reasons for doing so,not the least of which is the money that was and still is being paid out,in the open and quietly,to the victims (male and female children and female adults)of some priests.And, many of these schools were opened 100 years ago,or so,when each group of immigrants demanded their own churches and Parrish schools,even though there were already perfectly good ones a block away.The trouble was...they were Polish.for example, and the other congregation was some other ethnicity.
There are also NOT enough Catholic pupils and almost NO teaching nuns now.The parochial schools that cater to the more affluent,are doing just fine and are even expanding! It's the schools that poor and lower middle class attend,that are closing.
I know all about this,because one of my oldest,dearest,closest friends is a principle of a parochial school.The one she began teaching in,many decades ago and then became principle of,closed last year...it's 100 year anniversary. She's now the principle of another one,since her school was closed due to the lack of pupils and yes,the money problems.
Don't paint with such a damned broad brush! That just is NOT so for many of them.
I'm sorry inner city schools are closing. We've got that situation here too. But there just aren't enough Catholics living there anymore. And I'm sorry to say that is where many of the religious teachers and principals are - there is little to no evangelization going on in those schools - but lots of tolerance and diversity. Another situation I notice is in some of Philadelphia's more livable neighborhoods, the parents send their children to the suburban Catholic schools, rather than to their own parish.
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