The answer is complicated. There is no money for religious education, but there are funds for non-religious purposes, such as transportation. So, there are some public funds available, but not to the extent of full support. A full, detailed answer to your inquiry would require some research.Hello to everyone as a Scots born Canadian I have always had access to Catholic Ed .Please bear with me as i ask ,does the American Catholic schools get any public funding? If not does that mean all your tax dollars go into the public system,doesn,t seem fair …in Canada you can direct your taxes to either system and in the Uk Catholic and public are covered equally,just wanted to know
I agree. This touches on a sensitive area. In the late 60’s (I’m old) I had a number of protestant friends who married Catholics, converted, and later sent their children to Catholic schools. When I discussed religion with them some quite openly told me that they had converted but didn’t really accept or believe much of what the Church taught and also that they sent their children to Catholic schools, but that since the schools were largely taught by non-religious they weren’t that much different from the Catholic schools. It seemed to me at the time, that while bringing numbers of non-catholic adults into the church may have raised the numbers of Catholics doing so might be a double edged sword in that adherence to Catholic teaching might be watered down generally.Evangelization includes missionary work in converting non-believers. Catholics in general get low marks in this area.
I am not so self-absorbed as to believe that the problem of Catholic schools is that they don’t follow my particular suggestions or viewpoints. For some reason, I believe it is more complicated than that. There is also the greater influx of Catholics in the general population. Once they got out of the ghettos, Catholics really starting intermarrying with other religious folks.
And I attended parochial school up until 1970, during the civil rights period. It was an interesting time.
It is not “self - abosrbed” to identify problems and try to locate the basic philosophical shifts that may have lead to them. You may call it that, I prefer to think of it as refusing to be apathetic and/or fatalistic. Furthermore, none of what I wrote about is my own idea or untried suggestion. It is the daily reality of what is happening at the catholic school my own children attend (linked above), a 2 year old school that is already at full capacity in nearly all the grade levels.Evangelization includes missionary work in converting non-believers. Catholics in general get low marks in this area.
I am not so self-absorbed as to believe that the problem of Catholic schools is that they don’t follow my particular suggestions or viewpoints. For some reason, I believe it is more complicated than that. There is also the greater influx of Catholics in the general population. Once they got out of the ghettos, Catholics really starting intermarrying with other religious folks.
And I attended parochial school up until 1970, during the civil rights period. It was an interesting time.