My knuckles and the back of my head hurt just remembering those sweet Dominican Sisters from the 1950s.
I glanced at the title and thought it said “Sadie’s Serpentine School.” I thought I was going to need to ping Salamander.
One of the primordial blunders in the Catholic Church was putting schools in the hands of parishes and religious orders. They should have been owned and run by the laity from the beginning, with perhaps advice from the clergy and religious.
Starting in the 1950’s, when Notre Dame quietly, secretly turned pro-abortion (Fr. Hesburgh), eventually all the religious orders converted their institutions to neo-paganism.
Now, only a small fraction of Catholic grade schools are Catholic—and, with only two or three exceptions, ALL truly Catholic colleges are owned and run by laypeople.