There is a huge loss

The Departure of an Order

In my city and school district it was very gradual, with fewer and fewer Religious teaching until, suddenly, they were all gone and there were no teachers but secular teachers. Now I look at the classes, and there are good teachers teaching them, and at the graduates, and, yes, there are good people graduating, but there has been a huge loss. More than anything else, what hasn't been well preserved has been the Catholic identity. Very often now there is nothing that distinguishes the system of Catholic schools from the Public system. It makes one a little sad...

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