Comments on: Tearful News

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:14:40 +0000

Has Justice Sotomayor given any donations to the school she attended? I’m sure she could help the school with the bills. Furthermore, I don’t believe she upholds every Catholic teachings in her rulings anyway? does she? I believe she is pro abortion to name one teaching she rejects once taught to her at Catholic school.

By: Mary Castrovilla

Mary Castrovilla — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:20:38 +0000

On behalf of St. Casimir School in Yonkers – as well as the other “at risk” schools, I would like to share this link:
Sotomayor’s old Bronx school faces the ax
- NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/sotomayor-old-bronx-school-faces-ax-article-1.1212873
2 days ago … The Bronx parochial school that nurtured Sonia Sotomayor from childhood to the Supreme Court is one of two dozen Catholic schools in
.

Read please the lines about “the closure of the school would leave a tremendous spiritual, educational and safety void” and by Jan. 3. The archdiocese will sacrifice our children’s future and close our school.”
Please give ALL the at-risk schools more time. Jan. 3 is IMHO, unreasonable. People are so overwhelmed right now with family, spiritual and community preparation for Christmas.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:44:06 +0000

Cardinal,
St Joseph School in Kingston is being included in the at risk list by virtue of data that is two years old. This school takes little, if any, Inter Parish Funding, and the enrollment has increased by 34% over the last two years. I would respectfully ask that your committee meet again to discuss the accurate data, and that St Joseph School be allowed to continue to educate our students. St Joseph School has some of the highest test scores around, the arts programs are growing, People in Ulster County are fed up with the public school system and are coming to the Catholic Schools in huge amounts, 82 new students at St Joseph school this year alone…. please give the school another chance, a FAIR chance.
By closing these schools you are turning away church goers, possibly future religious and more. Ulster County is different than Manhattan. There is such a huge area, one school cannot do it all. St Joseph School should be kept open to continue to do what it is doing so well.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 05:01:19 +0000

It all started when the Nuns left the classroom and the Church. They knew it too. Several are teaching in Public Schools. I feel they are responsible for deserting us. Its like they went on strike. Bring in new Religious and the Schools will flourish once more. I was taught by the School Sister of Notre Dame. They were wonderful. But they went on strike and my school closed. Even the Parish is a shadow of what it once was.

By: Edward T McKenna

Edward T McKenna — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:05:43 +0000

Your Eminence
Can Kingston Catholic hold the 205 students from St Joseph’s plus the 89 from St Mary’s In addition to their 237. They, KCS have been saying they are full. Why is it that St Joseph’s is on the list when they do not take any assistance from the Archdiocese. Where as both Kingston Catholic and St Mary’s do. This is not pruning you are leaving Ulster County with ONE school .

By: Irene

Irene — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:35:21 +0000

“Numerous young priests have often confided in me that when Bishop Fellay speaks they listen”

Do you mean the Lefebrvrite who rejects the authority of the Pope? I can’t imagine how listening to someone like that would do anything at all to help our struggling NYC parochial schools.

I agree with Mary Castrovilla (12/2/2012 5:29 am) that it would be simple justice to give these at risk schools a few years to try and develop a sustainability strategy.

By: Mary Castrovilla

Mary Castrovilla — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:29:42 +0000

Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Please give the “schools at risk of closing more time to raise funds. The Nov. 28 announcement comes as a time when parishes and schools are heavily involved in advent/Christmas preparations.
2.also, since the Reconfiguration Committees were just Named on November 16, 2012 wouldn”t it serve JUSTICE to NOT close these 26 schools in June, 2013, but to give the Reconfiguration Committee time to possibly identity revenue means to keep these schools open.

PLEASE HEAR my pleas, made especilly, but not only, for St. Casimir School in Yonkers

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:19:55 +0000

Since the 1960 s there has been a decline in Catholic education. Mostly because of the cost of education in the schools. For my 2 grandchildren ,it s 5,ooo dollars. Not including parish dues. Most people are not that well off anymore. People need to be energized about their faith again. Preach the 10 commandment again from the pulpit especially confession. We have lost the concept of sin and our faith

By: Robert Fox

Robert Fox — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:46:29 +0000

One commenter said <>

I would further assert the contraceptive culture in modern Catholicism is the natural outcome of the Novus Ordo… the new Mass… valid though it may be sacramentally.

When I look at videos of traditional parishes in the US and elsewhere (the ones in full communion and the ones that are not yet)… one thing is visually loud and clear: The many young families at various TLM are not committing the self destructive practice of contraception. Their priests won’t stand for it.

Numerous young priests have often confided in me that when Bishop Fellay speaks they listen… even though they are in full communion and he is not. When I ask why… those young priests tell me: “It’s because we young guys wish our own bishops would talk this way… but sadly they are too afraid to most of the time”. WOW! These are young men who gave up everything to serve Our Lord and to offer sacrifice for the living and the dead. And yet they see their own ‘generalissimo’s’ as ‘afraid’ ! That is a stunning message to me.

Something to think about if you are listening your Excellency.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:04:57 +0000

I might suggest you and your priests start preaching energetically at Sunday Mass about the grave sin of contraception. Perhaps then within a decade or two you might have enough children to people the Catholic schools, and enough parents to pay the freight.