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That really is a pity. Because of the greatest things in being a Catholic is knowing the wealth contained in your faith.
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paul11b
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I am 26 and I thought that I knew my faith because I went to Catholic schools. I thought that Mary had children after she had Jesus, that you should use condoms if you decide to have premarital sex, and that you should make sure that your girlfriend was on birth control if you do have premarital sex, I learned all of this from teachers in Catholic school. I also learned that we could interpret the Bible how we wanted, I never even heard the word Magisterium in school. I did learn that the morning after pill was wrong but I was taught many bad things in Catholic school. I now have a 2 year old son and a 3 week old son and I don’t know if I want to send them to Catholic school or if I want to send them to public school and teach them all of the Faith on my own. Another problem is that I am NOT rich by any means, I follow my faith and my wife and I do not use contraception, just NFP, she is a stay at home mom and I am a police officer and Catholic schools are SO expensive that I don’t know if I’ll be able to afford them even if I desperately want to send my kids there and am given financial aid.
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hazcompat
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the baby boom is over.
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MusherMaggie
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Prayerfully consider homeschooling–and be sure you have a Catholic Bible & Catechism of the Catholic Church in your home. You can do it!
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PJM
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Blame it on the DOWNWARD SPIRAL EFFECT:=ajpirc;8030503]I had gone to Catholic schools from Kindergarden to 6th grade. I had always thought of Catholic schools as strict and full of nuns. I know there aren’t many nuns in schools today because of the lack of them. I had one nun at least, but she didn’t where any habit so that put me down. I hadn’t learn ANYTHING about the Catholic Faith from my schools. It wasn’t until a few months ago when I began discerning the priesthood when I started research on the Faith. I found out about how much Faith wasn’t taught in Catholic schools and it kind of made me mad
. I got over it but I still think a lot about the lack of Catholic education in Catholic schools every now and then. So, what happened to Catholic schools? Thank you.
Huge number of catholics not understanding and therefore NOT believing in the REAL Presence
Huge number of catholic exodousing the CC
HUGE decreases in vocations: Priest, and religious = more secular teachers
Fewer catholics = fewer students
LESS Money coming it to support Catholic Education
BUT God remains in charge!
I’ll pray for you that you discern God’s Will. It’s NOT supposed to easy my friend
God Bless you,
Pat
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Thanks for the encouraging words, Tim. There are two Catholic schools in my area. I plan on exploring the second in the future. Being a Yankee fish out of northern waters myself (and having had significant experience with a good Catholic education) this experience did take me by surprise. I considered contacting the Priest at the affiliated Church to discuss the matter further; however, given that there was an alternative, I decided to move on rather than risk provocation.All the good Catholic Schools moved south, along with all the good Catholics.
jwder09, I’m sorry you have had a bad experience with schools in your diocese (Savannah?). But that is not my experienc here in Suburban Atlanta.
Seriously, all the Catholics who used to sit in the pews in Michigan and Massachusets didn’t just fall off the face of the earth and they didn’t all leave the Church for atheism as the media would like us to believe. Catholicism is booming in the deep south. The Archdiocese of Atlanta ordained fifteen deacons last year, 2015 went through the Rite of Election this past Easter. We have three going to seminary and two going to the convent from my parish and some diocese in the deep south cannot build schools fast enough. My children attended a school staffed by four fully habited and fifteen decade rosary equipped Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia.The kids all genuflect when the pass the chapel in the school, I can tell you that for sure.
This is not an isolated instance either. Greenville SC, Birmingham AL, Charlston SC, Atlanta, and many of the smaller cities in the south are growing Catholic centers.
So ya’ll come down. Seriously.
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Nita
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Is there some reason you have posted this same message on 53 different threads here on CAF? Are you looking for discussion; do you have particular questions or charges you wish us to respond to?
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ajpirc
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Lay religious teachers who condone:
contraception: 90%
abortion: 53%
divorce and remarriage: 65%
missing Mass: 77%
70% of Catholics aged 18-44 don’t believe in the Real Presence.
An index of Catholicism’s decline
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Rome_Always
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As for myself, I can say Catholic School in the areas that my sister and I grew up in, were $$$$ based. If you weren’t rich enough, or didn’t have the right connections it was very hard to get in. When we lived in AL, we went to Holy Family in Mobile. We had a nun for a principal who was very good and there were still some sisters who taught. My sister was able to attend K-3 there before we moved to SC. In SC, mom and dad tried to get us in another Catholic School. There were waiting lists for us but not for certain other people. I think my parents found ou about two months after we had moved another child had gotten in who was also new to the area but would pay them more money in the tuition. I need a public school due to learning disabilites. However, public school put my sister 3 years behind when she was at the head of her class in previous area. She was told she needed “remediation” The child who needed “remdiation” now has a Master’s Degree in Art!!! For myself, when mom and dad looked at putting me in the Catholic school there, my files were not looked at and found thrown away in a trash can. I could have had to repeat 1-4th Grade!!! Boy, am I sure glad I didn’t have to! So, for us it was this way with the exception of AL where all children were accepted regardless of ability to pay. I now teach CCD or Faith Formation as they call it here in NC. So many children are not afforded the opportunity of a Catholic education and I try my best to instill our Catholic faith and values in them. I am probably considered one of the “harder teachers” if you will. But when Jesus comes back and he will, or when we don’t have the prayers in the confessionals for whatever reason, what are we going to say? OOPS! I’m sorrry I didn’t listen in catechism class and memorize my prayers?? I guess I had a really good ccd experience because we learned about church histroy, memorized our prayers, learned the Ten Commandments to know by heart, and so much more. So as far as Catholic schools go, is it really “catholic” or more or a political game? You decide.
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