Where are the best Catholic cities?

[threecats123]

Viperdoc:
St. Paul, MN might be perfect for you, specifically the west side near the Mississippi. This includes the Macalester-Groveland, Highland Park, and Merriam Park neighborhoods. I live in Mac/Groveland, and within a couple of miles of my house there are 5 K-8 Catholic Schools - our kids attend one of those and the school is phenomenal. My kids walk a half-block to school. We also live two blocks from a park that has an free outdoor skating rink and we spend a lot of time there - my kids love to skate. There is no shortage of winter here (especially this year, it seems) and there are lots of things to do outside. One of the favorite things to do is climb on the snowhills in the church parking lot - they get pretty high .

There are several Catholic High Schools to choose from in the area (one right in the neighborhood - Cretin-Derham Hall), including one that is all-boys and one that is all-girls (St. Thomas Academy/Convent of the Visitation). My neighborhood also has two Catholic Universities - University of St. Catherine for women and co-ed University of St. Thomas.

Good luck in your search!

 

[perlamaria]

Hi I wanted to know also if catholics has more acceptation of minorities on their town since I know most catholics are white and know that discrimination is still alive and well

 

[Sparki777]

You know, I think in any city, you’re going to see some discrimination against minority people in certain parts of town, but not everywhere.

I was talking about this with my priest not too long ago, because our parish school is one of the most multi-ethnic schools in the whole state (public or parochial), and the kids really do treat each other like brothers and sisters. Fr. D was telling me that every time somebody comes to visit the school (superintendents, or state inspectors or teacher trainers or whatever), they marvel at the kids in the lunchroom and on the playground because there is no student-imposed segregation at our school. In most places, the black kids sit together and the Hispanic kids sit together and the Asian kids sit together and the white kids sit together. Not at our school! They all mix together and treat each other as equals. In fact, my son’s best friend is Vietnamese, my middle kid’s best friend is African American and my youngest’s best friend is Latina, and we’re white. The kids are really “color-blind” in our parish and so are the parents and staff.

I will admit that this isn’t the case in some other parishes where I live. In fact, there is a neighboring parish that is middle- to upper-middle class and mostly white. They have a huge parish school (three sections in ever grade compared to one section in each grade at our school), but they still can’t take all the kids who apply. The “overflow” are supposed to go to our parish school, where they would pay the same tuition instead of an out-of-parish rate. We have exactly TWO families who do this. The other families would prefer to send their kids to public school. Why? Because we’re “in the hood” and they aren’t sure their kids would be safe. Now really, this is not true. We’re just downtown (not “in the hood”) and there has never been ANY safety issues at our school. I think this is just code for “white kids are the minority at that school, and I don’t want my kid to be a minority.” It’s really small-minded, isn’t it?

So I guess what I would tell you is to shop around. There are mostly-white parishes to be sure. There are also mostly-minority parishes and parishes like mine that are a pretty even mix of people groups so everybody feels welcome.

 

[EasterJoy]

I live near Seattle, and believe me, we need more faithful Catholics.

In Portland in Oregon we have much the same, but we have Archbishop Sample.

 

[Megan7]

You know, I think in any city, you’re going to see some discrimination against minority people in certain parts of town, but not everywhere.

I was talking about this with my priest not too long ago, because our parish school is one of the most multi-ethnic schools in the whole state (public or parochial), and the kids really do treat each other like brothers and sisters. Fr. D was telling me that every time somebody comes to visit the school (superintendents, or state inspectors or teacher trainers or whatever), they marvel at the kids in the lunchroom and on the playground because there is no student-imposed segregation at our school. In most places, the black kids sit together and the Hispanic kids sit together and the Asian kids sit together and the white kids sit together. Not at our school! They all mix together and treat each other as equals. In fact, my son’s best friend is Vietnamese, my middle kid’s best friend is African American and my youngest’s best friend is Latina, and we’re white. The kids are really “color-blind” in our parish and so are the parents and staff.

I will admit that this isn’t the case in some other parishes where I live. In fact, there is a neighboring parish that is middle- to upper-middle class and mostly white. They have a huge parish school (three sections in ever grade compared to one section in each grade at our school), but they still can’t take all the kids who apply. The “overflow” are supposed to go to our parish school, where they would pay the same tuition instead of an out-of-parish rate. We have exactly TWO families who do this. The other families would prefer to send their kids to public school. Why? Because we’re “in the hood” and they aren’t sure their kids would be safe. Now really, this is not true. We’re just downtown (not “in the hood”) and there has never been ANY safety issues at our school. I think this is just code for “white kids are the minority at that school, and I don’t want my kid to be a minority.” It’s really small-minded, isn’t it?

So I guess what I would tell you is to shop around. There are mostly-white parishes to be sure. There are also mostly-minority parishes and parishes like mine that are a pretty even mix of people groups so everybody feels welcome.

Great thread,thanks

 

[perlamaria]

You know, I think in any city, you’re going to see some discrimination against minority people in certain parts of town, but not everywhere.

I was talking about this with my priest not too long ago, because our parish school is one of the most multi-ethnic schools in the whole state (public or parochial), and the kids really do treat each other like brothers and sisters. Fr. D was telling me that every time somebody comes to visit the school (superintendents, or state inspectors or teacher trainers or whatever), they marvel at the kids in the lunchroom and on the playground because there is no student-imposed segregation at our school. In most places, the black kids sit together and the Hispanic kids sit together and the Asian kids sit together and the white kids sit together. Not at our school! They all mix together and treat each other as equals. In fact, my son’s best friend is Vietnamese, my middle kid’s best friend is African American and my youngest’s best friend is Latina, and we’re white. The kids are really “color-blind” in our parish and so are the parents and staff.

I will admit that this isn’t the case in some other parishes where I live. In fact, there is a neighboring parish that is middle- to upper-middle class and mostly white. They have a huge parish school (three sections in ever grade compared to one section in each grade at our school), but they still can’t take all the kids who apply. The “overflow” are supposed to go to our parish school, where they would pay the same tuition instead of an out-of-parish rate. We have exactly TWO families who do this. The other families would prefer to send their kids to public school. Why? Because we’re “in the hood” and they aren’t sure their kids would be safe. Now really, this is not true. We’re just downtown (not “in the hood”) and there has never been ANY safety issues at our school. I think this is just code for “white kids are the minority at that school, and I don’t want my kid to be a minority.” It’s really small-minded, isn’t it?

So I guess what I would tell you is to shop around. There are mostly-white parishes to be sure. There are also mostly-minority parishes and parishes like mine that are a pretty even mix of people groups so everybody feels welcome.

Hi! Thank you for your answer can I ask where is that you live? Is sad that this happen in the big usa I guess I didn’t know how fortunate I was to be born in puerto rico,We never had that kind of history like in the usa that was never in my mind neither in nobodys mind for us is more politics but that’s about it. Here white people are going to be the minority
And we are very catholic but the culture of death has become part of our culture too.

What I would like is to visit and see you know I don’t really care if they don’t like me but you know be able to find a job without being discriminated against or find a peaceful neighborhood where Im not harassed and so on that’s what I am afraid of.I know the police department do racial profiling too. I would like to know what do I do if those things happen to me?

Thank you for your sincere answers
God bless