Catholic Answers census: Your Catholic education background

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I’m curious what the educational background is for those who are members of the forum.
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I was baptized as an infant in the Roman Catholic Church. I attended public (therefore, non-Catholic) elementary school and high school. I studied in a Catholic university. I founded a college “inspired by the Roman Catholic Faith”.😊
 
👋 Cradle Catholic here.

Public School Monday through Friday

Mass on Sunday:thumbsup:
 
I was homeschooled and raised Protestant, and raised to hear God speaking to me and to follow him. So I have, and he led me to Catholicism :).
 
PK-12 = Public School…became Catholic shortly after graduation (grew up with no religion)…baptized at Easter Vigil in 1994

Univ. of Michigan (public) = Bachelor of Science in education in May 1997…entered the convent in August 1998 (had been in formation program during college)

Eastern Michigan Univ (public)= MA in Educational Leadership/K-12 Administration in Dec. 2002

SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary…FINALLY, a Catholic school!! Graduated with an MA in systematic theology in May 2008

Graduate Theological Foundation - graduated with a doctor of education in May 2008…did my coursework in Catholic and public universities

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I selected “other” because I am a military brat and was not any where near an English speaking parochial school for part of 5th grade through 8th grade so:

Practicing, never left the faith Catholic.
Cradle Catholic - baptized when I was less than 2 weeks old
Public school for kindergarden (Catholic schools didn’t have kindergarden back then)
Catholic School (St. Theresa’s in Aurora, CO) for 1st-part of 5th
Moved to Turkey so finished 5th grade in two different public schools with 6th grade in the second one (one of the schools was a NATO school for dependent children the other one was a regular dependent children school).
Junior High (7th-8th grades) in School for Dependants public school in Germany
High School (9th-12th grades) at Sacred Heart in East Grand Forks MN - I got to graduate from the same school my mom did, now that is something for a military brat!l
3 years College at UND with other College courses at various State colleges later.
Still learning through various means - just not getting “Credit” for it :D.

Brenda V.
 
practicing cradle catholic
public schools and CCD for me.
so needless to say i have been learning a lot in the last few years.
 
I was raised as a Lutheran and I attended public schools through college. Surprisingly, my secular college education helped bring me into the church.
 
I went to Catholic School for 6 years. It was the same school my dad went to as well as my grandfather and great-grandmother. My great-grandmother was in the first graduating class of St. Mary’s Catholic School in Edgerton OH in 1928. Back then it was 8 grades instead of 6 grades when my dad went as well as me and my sister. I went to public jr. high and high as well as college
 
Although I answered “cradle Catholic - Catholic Grade school”, that answer is somewhat misleading since I wandered away from the faith late in adolescence and only returned about three years ago.
 
I converted to our Catholic faith in my 30’s. I was educated in the public school system.
 
I was baptized when I was 4 months in the Roman Catholic church. Went Baptist kindergarten, Elementary-junior-senior: catholic school. University : private. Took first communion when I was 8 years old. Confirmation when I was senior high school.
 
Cradle Catholic

Catholic grade school
Public high school
Catholic college
Catholic professional school

LOTS and lots of reading after all of that.
 
Cradle Catholic, went to Catholic school up to eighth grade (even though I went to a baptist school in kindergarten), and now currently in public school. I don’t really think that going to Catholic school help in the formation of my faith though. by the time I eneterd the sixth grade I found it too shallow. Appearently so did many other kids because by the time we graduated from the eighth grade six or seven (out of a class of 60 or so) claimed to be either agnostic or atheist. Most of what I learned about my faith came either from my parents or my own searches in order to defend my faith from anti-Catholic protestants and atheists.
 
una_ecclesia said:
Cradle Catholic, went to Catholic school up to eighth grade (even though I went to a baptist school in kindergarten), and now currently in public school. I don’t really think that going to Catholic school help in the formation of my faith though. by the time I eneterd the sixth grade I found it too shallow. Appearently so did many other kids because by the time we graduated from the eighth grade six or seven (out of a class of 60 or so) claimed to be either agnostic or atheist. Most of what I learned about my faith came either from my parents or my own searches in order to defend my faith from anti-Catholic protestants and atheists.
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It wasn’t til I had been out of high school 6 years did I learn what what Catholicism is all about. I am still learning. I went to school til 6 grade at St. Mary’s in Edgerton OH. My dad went 6 years there, my grandfather went 8. They eliminated 7 and 8 when dad went there but Grandpa Stark went 8. My Great Grandmother went there too. She was the first graduating class of my elementary school,St Mary’s. I am proud of her for that. She will turn 94 on Sat. I think she is the only survivor of the first class at St. Mary’s. Even though she went one year, it still an accompolishment. She grew up Catholic just as my Great Grandfather did. My family is filled with Catholicism. My Grandfather and my aunts, uncles and mom went to catholic school too. It was the best education I ever had
 
Cradle Catholic, Catholic grade school, Catholic high school, public university 🙂
 
[Other] Cradle Catholic. Catholic grade school. Catholic high school. Secular college. Practicing.

I was having lunch with a group of priest and nun friends and they said the reason why I was still a practicing Catholic (and many of my friends who had gone to Catholic college had left the Church) was BECAUSE I had gone to a secular college.

I guess … but maybe as another former believer said, he didn’t have the gift of faith … if faith is truly a gift … well … it is humbling (and troubling) that I “have” the gift and so many others do not.

My friend without the gift of faith has read Aquinas and can recite all the proofs of the existence of God. He knows more about Catholicism than most folks … he calls himself an apostate Jew.
 
Al_Masetti said:
[Other] Cradle Catholic. Catholic grade school. Catholic high school. Secular college. Practicing.

I was having lunch with a group of priest and nun friends and they said the reason why I was still a practicing Catholic (and many of my friends who had gone to Catholic college had left the Church) was BECAUSE I had gone to a secular college.

I guess … but maybe as another former believer said, he didn’t have the gift of faith … if faith is truly a gift … well … it is humbling (and troubling) that I “have” the gift and so many others do not.

My friend without the gift of faith has read Aquinas and can recite all the proofs of the existence of God. He knows more about Catholicism than most folks … he calls himself an apostate Jew.
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Unfortunately, knowing it and believing it are two different things!
 
Al_Masetti said:
I was having lunch with a group of priest and nun friends and they said the reason why I was still a practicing Catholic (and many of my friends who had gone to Catholic college had left the Church) was BECAUSE I had gone to a secular college.
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I’m inclined to agree with them and my theory about this is that seeing the Catholic faith washed down or contradicted at public college can actually strengthen the faith, whereas at a Catholic college it can scandalize the youth.

I wonder if your priests and nuns friends had this in mind, as well as Our Lord’s admonition to those responsible for scandal… :eek:

May St. Thomas Aquinas pray for our colleges.

:blessyou:
 
I have a very, very strong aversion to the term Cradle Catholic. I have a much gentler aversion to misspellings.

I am a life-long Practicing Catholic that went to a Catholic Elementary School and to a Catholic High School.
 
Cardle Catholic, Catholic school to 8th Grade; fallen away gradually for years, then back about 12-13 yrs. ago stronger than ever. Have long been concerned at lack of scripture study for children and just found one which I haven’t yet seen. It’s Simon Peter Scriptures Study for grades 3-5. It was noted on the EWTN TV show Abundant Life. The host has her own ministry: Living His Life Abundantly and youcan order the study from their web site:
lhla.org.
 
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