[Straight Vermonter]

Not to mention the privateCatholic schools that have sprung up in reaction to the modernizing of many of parish schools.

There was a desire in my hometown to build a Catholic elementary school. None of the local parishes would welcome the school so the parents tried to make it a private Catholic school. The diocese would have nothing to do with it so finally the parents walked away.

This was in the city with the property taxes in the state, in the state with the highest taxes in the country. Parents still wanted to make the financial sacrifice to educate their children in a Catholic school but the Church stood in the way. I just can't understand it.

[Desdemona]

Parents still wanted to make the financial sacrifice to educate their children in a Catholic school but the Church stood in the way. I just can't understand it.

I don't understand it either. As a person who lives in an archdiocese with almost 30 Catholic high schools and countless elementary schhols, that sounds awfully fishy.

[narses]

Is there any ongoing effort to document the anti-Catholic school attitude in various dicasteries across the country? I hear about this constantly and yet have seen no articles anywhere about it.

[Aestus Veritatis]

"I just can't understand it."

You might find "The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita" enlightening. Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII asked that it be published, as a warning of the plans put in place by "The Synagoge of Satan" to infiltrate Catholic institutions so that once they had secured "a Pope according to our needs" the faithful would march under their standard, "always believing that they are marching under the banner of the Apostolic Keys."