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Canada Ping!
Posted on 01/01/2014 6:47:45 PM PST by massmike
Don't you know better than to ask that? Cause whatever it is coming next, we won't like it any better.
I went to a catholic school. Everyone was catholic We did not have any muslims there. What is wrong with these people?
1/1/2014 9:47:45 PM · by morningmassmikey · 41 replies
http://nation.outfoxednews.com/ ^ | 01/01/2014 | Dailey Carenodruthers.
Dubai, UAE - Sheik AL Bendova secondary school is turning a second-floor office into an Catholic prayer room -- the first high school in the city, private or public, to do so. Carpet will soon cover the tile flooring, speakers will be installed and pews purchased to provide the school's Catholic students, estimated at around zero, with a quiet and private place to pray. The idea has been in the works since the end of the last school year after a group of Muslim students lobbied administration to create the space.
"They're members of our school community. Where the hell do we find some Catholics in this fkin desert?"
Catholic schools now typically have many faiths attending; however, I don't know of any atheist students. The Catholic schools in my area have Muslim and Hindu students (there are very few Jewish people around here or I'm sure we'd have some of them), in addition to the Catholics. The Muslim and Hindu students are almost exclusively the offspring of local physicians.
At the local Catholic high school all students, AFAIK, attend Mass, but the Muslim students do go to a room to pray separately -- it is just a plain room -- nothing fancy or tailored to them.
All students are exposed to Catholic doctrine and values but those who are not Catholic are not required to adopt the Catholic faith.
You probably should have picked a different country for your analogy. Dubai happens to have two Catholic churches. I regularly attend Mass at St. Mary’s when I’m in town on business. It is huge. (~1,700 capacity). Many Sundays it is packed and there is considerable overflow in the courtyard.
Have I ever seen a native Emirati there? No. But I give full credit to the ruling family for taking care of the spiritual needs of the Catholic ex-pats in the city.
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Yep, that pretty much sums it up. A friend of mine who worked in one of the schools says the standards began to crumble when funding was extended to grade 13; prior to that the quality of Catholic schools was several orders of magnitude higher than the public schools; these days there’s no difference.
HUH?
Then it reeally is not a Catholic High School. Shame on them.........
Catholic beliefs have been severely undermined since the late 1960s. Just last week, there was a huge uproar in my city - an uproar among Catholics, not secularists - when a gay teacher was fired from a Catholic high school because he entered into a gay marriage. The school almost apologized for firing him, saying it was the bishop’s decision. Dozens of students - maybe more than a hundred - demonstrated on his behalf. I’m surprised you are so naïve about how seriously Catholic doctrines have been compromised since the 1960s.
Thinking the wolf will lie down with the lambs is wishful thinking.
“Speakers” for a “quiet place to pray”? Did I miss something in translation?
Even worse is how Christ himself has been slighted in all manner of worship communities. We’ve got a Hero here and he’s treated as some minor dignitary at best.
I think it’s going to end up being pretty loud, yeah.
Begining of the end
gimme a break
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“The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic parish in Manama, Bahrain.[1] The church is one of only two catholic churches in Bahrain (the other being the Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Visitation in Awali). The Sacred Heart Church serves an estimated 140,000 people.”
2 CHURCHES FOR 140,000 PEOPLE!!!!!
there are 700,00 muslims in NY City- can you imagine only
5 mosques for all those?
700,000/5 = 140,000 per mosque-
GIMME A BREAK- The moslems would be marching and screaming day and night in the streets of Manhattan to get those other 170 mosques built fast.
There are 175 mosques in NY city
700,000/175= 4,000 per mosque
gimme a n break- It`s apples and oranges and the apples in ME are rotten apples and you know it.
It is an indefensible position from which this argument of your is being sent.
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GIMNME A BREAK!!!!
WHAT a bunch of baloney- Imagine only 2 Catholic churches in all of NY CITY!!!!!
GIMME A BREAK- It`s called TOKENISM-
It`ll never be tit for tat- all the moslems want is 99.99%
and give us 2 churches for 140,000 catholics- Are you nuts?
Your argument is built of straw. The Dubai hot desert wind blows it all over the place to nothingess.
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“There are over 250,000 foreign workers in the country who are Catholics, representing around 7% of the total population,[citation needed] largely Filipinos, Indians, South Americans, Lebanese, and Europeans. The United Arab Emirates forms part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia and the Vicar Apostolic Bishop Paul Hinder is based in Abu Dhabi.[1] The Vatican has diplomatic relations with the UAE, represented by Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem.[2]
Churches in the Region[edit]
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Abu Dhabi
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Dubai
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Jebel Ali
St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Sharjah
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Al Ain
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, Fujairah
Fujairah Sub Centres in Kalba, Khorfakkan and Dibba
St. Anthony of Padua Church, Ras Al-Khaimah”
-source wiki-
ok 250,000/8 churches = 31,250 Catholics per church
WOW ain`t that just grand- And just where are these 31,250 Catholics gonna sit on Sunday to hear Mass?
The Dubai soccer stadium?
” I give full credit to the ruling family for taking care of the spiritual needs of the Catholic ex-pats in the city.”
oh C`mon Man-
Gimme a break—!!!
I am 75 years old, a Catholic school graduate, a VERY involved member of a Catholic Parish and I am naive about NOTHING!!! Catholic doctrines have not been compromised at all...at least not by the church...there are, however, uneducated Catholics who tend to be feel gooders. Many of them are liberals who just want everyone to be warm and fuzzy. I am extremely conservative and wish the church would come out strongly concerning the attitude of some of our current politicians...Pelosi etal. The church, however, is world wide and every decision is interpreted differently in various parts of the world. I don't want the church to interfere directly in American politics....but I do think, that from the pulpit, she could make her message CLEAR on these subjects. Abortion drove me nuts, I couldn't believe that the message wasn't screamed from housetops and I contacted my Bishop and made myself PERFECTLY clear. Catholic beliefs have been undermined since the 1600's but we bounce back and time after time come out on top. I am familiar with the story of the dismissed school employee because of a gay marriage....these kids, like kids in EVERY other school should be made very aware that they don't run things...there are reasons for every rule, and that the Catholic Church is NOT a Democracy.
Especially when they sacrifice camels and goats to Baal.
Actually I think most of the Moslem students will be quiet and respectful of others, for two reasons.
1. Those who are decent people don’t want to offend others.
One of my floormates in college (in the early 1960’s) was a Turkish Moslem who had his own prayer rug and prayed quietly in his room. A very fine person (Omar A.). I wish more present-day AMerican Moslems were like him.
2. Those who are fundamentalists won, so why gloat and provoke a reaction.
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