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Catholic schools are no longer cost feasible. In the city, parents send their kids to Catholic schools because of the danger and poor quality of city schools. Not so out in the counties. There the public schools are superior in all respects.
Catholics schools are absolutely feasible and compete very well with the suburban schools, in both standardized test scores and college placement rates, and offer a sense of family and community that do not exist in public schools. The advent of the charter school option has hurt the city parochial schools. Still, some are thriving. Father Judge has full classrooms and excellent athletics and academics.
is it surprising that this religious cult who abuses young boys wants more money from thier members? lawyers cost money and the pope doesn't want to have to change his life style, but he wants you to change yours so they can continue without any sacrifices from themselves.
Typical reaction from someone named Ben Dover.
Closing schools... Putting low income housing and ex-offender housing in those schools... This ruins neighborhoods. Then they have the audacity to ask for money from the very same people whose schools they're closing. IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY IGNORE THEIR PLEAS FOR DONATIONS! Give to your local parish only if the donation stays local. Let the Archdiocese sell its multi-million dollar portfolio of real estate to fund its suburban fantacies. Stay away from their glossy brochures and filmstrips explaining their need.
ronnie are you and and your friend steve serious? you are members of a parish and you dont get even by this late date that its all about money? it always has been...where have you been? dont worry though. since people are "praying" to keep the schools open you dont have anything to worry about....prayer always works! just keep attending classes there. pray your way past the locked doors and empty classrooms. when the bulldozer shows up, its okay....pray :)
If the priests weren't molesting little kids, the money being spent on court cases could have been spent on keeping the schools open.
Joe Mammas, Ben Dover and anti-tax you are all exactly right. It has nothing to do with charter schools so called "family values". The Archdiocese is paying high priced lawyers and pr firms to protect themselves from lawsuits. It all trickles down to the school closures. They will let these buildings sit empty and rot the neighborhoods so then can say they have no assetts. There pet project in Royersford is going to fail miserably. It's all big business. My son proudly goes to public school and has school teachers that were Catholic school teachers. They offer small class sizes and a better education. My nephew gets one hour a week of religion in Catholic school and they never take him to church, maybe once a month if that. This has nothing to do with your faith. This has to do with the shady politics and business practices of the Archdiocese. They have plenty of money to keep these schools open but their interest lies in the suburbs.
This is a socio-economic crisis for the Church. The Diocese must come to understand that without a middle class, Catholicism in the United States will change. It will be about spiritual entertainment for wealthy Catholics as opposed to the mission to help working class Americans that has always made me proud to be a Catholic. Middle class communities such as the one that is now deteriorating in Northeast Philadelphia have always been the heart of the Church in the United States. The Church has aggressively supported U.S. political conservatives and their economic policies that have all but wiped out the middle class by depressing income growth among the working class and making education and health care more expensive. This leaves parents outside of the upper middle class unable to afford Catholic school tuition. What a shame that the Church told its parishoners on Sunday to oppose health care reform, a reform that would help many, many Americans shore up their bank accounts and live with greater security. And what a shame for the future of the Catholic Church in America! All of this in the name of abortion? I hope the Church wakes up!
they asked for money twice before Mass even started! Come on folks, it isn't about you and your children, it's about guilt and how much they can get you to give using it. Find a nice non-denominational church and go and praise God and Jesus. Leave the money out of it!
I have no sympathy whatsoever for the Catholic Church---they've done this to themselves. There'd still be a market for Catholicism if they were about spiritual guidance and community outreach, but they're much more concerned with the almighty dollar and covering up their most recent child sex abuse scandals.
And praying for a resolution to this mess? Please. Two hands working are more productive than a thousand clasped in prayer. My only sympathy in this mess if for the alumni and current students and teachers of the schools.
Keep praying because the catholic church in the US has been on a spiral crash since the early 80's. Refuse to modernize your policies and become obsolete..
You people are nuts. Liberals are nuts. Go do something with your life other than put people down. Stop it and get a life. Ted Kenedy killed a woman and you still worship him why cant Catholics be left alone?
Dougherty was huge back in the mid 70s and 80s when I lived in Philly. I suggest if you want to get the diocese's attention, you stop dropping those envelopes in the basket on Sunday and write "Dougherty" on them. I have a feeling a meeting will happen real quick..
yawns is dead on.
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