Roch NY Bishop does it again

[8kids4me]

He’s closing more schools. Including the one my kids go to(which is the Cathedral school). He is so not committed to Catholic education and won’t ever be. Actually, he says the schools are “merging” with others…same thing, we lose our school. I have the paperwork in hand now to change parishes, and will be sending kids to that school next fall and not the “merged” one. I have been thinking/praying about this for a while now, I guess it’s time. The school they will be in next year also still goes up to 8th grade, so my daughter won’t have to go to a middle school twenty minutes away from home(in the opposite direction of anywhere I would need to be). I am sad though. I like our teachers, and wonder how many of them will be able to keep their jobs. sigh

 

[Timidity]

8kids4me:

He’s closing more schools. Including the one my kids go to(which is the Cathedral school). He is so not committed to Catholic education and won’t ever be.

Faced with dwindling budgets and enrollment, school merging seems to me to be a logical step in order to maintain the system. It’s more efficient to maintian one building than two, especially if one building is capable of handling the combined student load.

What you view as a lack of commitment I see as just the opposite.

 

[kmmd]

Sadly it is the same way for closing churches. They call it “regional planning”.

From the very beginning when we were to discuss “sharing services” we were instructed not to discuss the shortage of vocations. “This is not the place.”

Now there are several parishes in the southern tier that no longer have a Sunday Mass.

Bishop Clark is about 12 years short of retirement and recently stated that he will stay for the duration.

May God have mercy on us and send us faithful priests.