[Magdalen] Location, Location, Location.

[Jay Weigel]

They do, Lynn.....my daughter went to a Catholic high school and loved it.
But I am talking about the Catholic church completely missing its
opportunity (and also blowing its mission) to educate and at the same time
evangelize inner city kids.

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Every Catholic parish and private schools that I've known of accept non
> Catholic students
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 5, 2016, at 10:03 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The RCC doesn't *get* a lot of things......including how their schools
> could be such a fantastic tool for evangelizing in the cities (and to some
> extent in poor rural areas). If they would reopen the schools to *all*
> kids, Catholic or not, and, as some of the few inner city ones that are
> left do, require parent involvement in certain ways, as: require parents to
> show up at mass once a month with their kids, to help keep the school
> clean, to come to meetings once a month, etc., they could very well gain
> converts. Not to mention possibly gaining converts among the kids, because
> of religious instruction in the school. There are a few here and there (I
> can think of at least one in Chicago) that do this and they are very
> successful. There is also the Cristo Rey network. But the church as a whole
> has lost its vision in this country as far as educating the poor.
>
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 8:03 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking ... how sad that the RCC doesn't have the vision of
> married
> > former priests excercising their diaconal ministries in the parishes.
> >
> > I realize it's fraught with peril for the clergy and hierarchy, but it
> > would be so great for the faithful.
> > -M
> >
> >
> >> On Thursday, June 2, 2016, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> poignant....
> >
>