Funny, I was just thinking to myself that this is something many Americans just don't seem to get.
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Thanks for posting, but I couldn't deal with the blow-by-blow format, interruptions from wikipedia, etc.
I got as far as the part about Chaput announcing plans to gut Catholic education, which, as far as I'm concerned, has produced the only useful citizens in our country for generations. I'm tired of reading about that. But since it clearly isn't what it used to be, having done its deals with the devil, it's probably better off dead, just like so many Catholic hospitals. In fact, the bulk of the Catholic social structure is probably rotten to the core by now.
actually, it was the liberal nuns who “gutted” catholic education by deciding to go into “new” ways of serving God, stopping their prayer life, and living in apartments.
The old schools were run cheaply with the nuns dedicated low wage labor, and the nuns willingly did it to educate the mainly poor in the inner city. But why be cheap labor for rich suburban families?
And inner city immigrants are often not Catholic, so who pays their tuition? Alas, there are still dedicated old nuns who will teach at these places, but I’ve had several girlfriends who left orders, both liberal and conservative orders, because of the confusion in the past.
So until the “new” orders get up and running, there will be a lag in keeping catholic schools going.