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Beau_Ouiville
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I’m not trying to be an iconoclast, but with declining enrollment at Catholic colleges did this nation really need another one?
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Redbaron998
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This is great 
I live just north of Atlanta and when Southern Catholic College closed it was kinda a jab in the stomach to many of the Catholic Community of the area. This new school at Holy Spirit Parish (which ive passed but never been to, though I would like to visit it) is a great step.
I think a small school of 200 like they are talking about would be great. You dont need huge facilities and classes to have a great college. I go to KSU in goergia that has about 23k students and it is pretty much impossible to get to know many people just because there are so many and its almost impossible to get in a class with someone you know.
God Bless them
I live just north of Atlanta and when Southern Catholic College closed it was kinda a jab in the stomach to many of the Catholic Community of the area. This new school at Holy Spirit Parish (which ive passed but never been to, though I would like to visit it) is a great step.I think a small school of 200 like they are talking about would be great. You dont need huge facilities and classes to have a great college. I go to KSU in goergia that has about 23k students and it is pretty much impossible to get to know many people just because there are so many and its almost impossible to get in a class with someone you know.
God Bless them
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Rich_Olszewski
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I agree. The existing Catholic colleges need all the students they can get. Why on earth is there any need for another one at this time?
If posters are going to start throwing accusations about secularized Catholic colleges, they should also be aware that there are many that are faithful to the Magisterium. I think this new school a very bad idea.
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KCT
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Not sure, but could it be geography? Is there another Catholic school in the south? Not everyone can afford to either board and/ or travel.
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Beau_Ouiville
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Well, there’s Xavier in New Orleans, my mother’s alma mater.
Look, if a residential college is not for you, I still don’t favor opening another Catholic one even if there is not a Catholic college in commuting distance. I think that American Catholics are diluting their finite ability to support some Catholic colleges.
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Digitonomy
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Other nominally Catholic colleges in the South include Barry in Miami, St Thomas in Miami, St Leo in St Leo,FL, Ave Maria in Naples,FL, Xavier in New Orleans, Loyola in New Orleans, Our Lady of the Holy Cross in New Orleans, Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge, Aquinas in Nashville, Bellarmine in Louisville, St Catharine in St Catharine,KY, Brescia in Owensboro,KY, St Thomas in Houston, Dallas in Dallas, St Thomas More in Ft Worth, Incarnate Word in San Antonio, St Mary’s in San Antonio, Wheeling Jesuit in Wheeling,WV, Marymount in Arlington,VA, Christendom in Front Royal,VA, Catholic in Washington, Georgetown in Washington, Mount St Mary’s in Emmitsburg,MD, and since we’re already borderline here, Fontbonne in St Louis, St Louis in St Louis, Xavier in Cincinnati.
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Beau_Ouiville
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My point exactly. Another one is necessary?
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MarkBrown
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Spring Hill offers the MTS and MA (grad degrees) in Atlanta, Birmingham and oh forgot where in Mississippi.
Many protestant schools and seminaries also offer distance classes through “extension centers”. For example New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary has an Extension center in Pensacola, Fl. Operates out of Olive Baptist Church. An undergrad school, Grace I believe, also operates there. They either rent or have space donated. Now Olive is a very large mega-baptist church. Most of the classes are geared towards those already working or in ministry. so the classes are at night and all day Saturday. A seminarian can obtain an MDiv in this manner. There is a requirement of 30 hours on campus. Many fulfill this by taking saturday classes or intensive 7 day almost 24 hour classes offered in the Summer. These intensive classes require alot of pre and post class work.
Spring Hill has adopted this model as well as the “Oxford method” of independent study with oversight by a professor. Requires extensive readings, papers and defense/debate of points with professors. Must also pass written and oral boards.
While all of this is good and forward thinking, after experiencing both the old brick and mortar and extension/“Oxford” and seeing the benefits of both. I like the old brick building. My classes were small enought to develop friendships and contacts. I found the personal contact perferable. Though I can see how in undergraduate schools of tens of thousands of students this would not be the case.
Fr. Mark
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AdvanceAlways
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Ave Maria is nominally Catholic?! First time I’ve heard that.
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Some will claim that one or another school on the list is not truly Catholic. It wasn’t my intent to pass these kind of judgments, so I threw in the weasel word to let people know that all these schools are at least nominally Catholic - i.e. Catholic in name - but that I wasn’t guaranteeing anything else.
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Cojuanco
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A better wourding would have been the words “at least”. Though from what I hear, it doesn’t have that good of a reputation in the academic world (I’m talking internal management rather than the usual diatribes against religion, here), though it likely is very, very Catholic.
But then, what do I know? I go to a secular college, after all.
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miajul11
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Exactly.
There is not one in SC, GA, AL, MS, SC, and NC to cover the south.
Put it on a map and you can readily see how huge the area is.
Some cannot afford college a long distance away.
This is great…assuming they stay loyal to the magistarium.
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Digitonomy
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Don’t forget Spring Hill.
Right. That one was not listed in their extensive list of colleges.
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