Posts Tagged: Northeast Catholic High School


13
Nov 09

WTFCatholicism?

What the hell is going on with the Catholic Church?

I have been seeing a ridiculous amount of Catholic-related news, starting with the local archdiocese announces they are closing my high school. I can remember the following exchange, at North Catholic, junior year, in Father DeMeo’s Psychology class, and how it illustrated the problem with absolute adherence to dogma:

“Children, if you use condoms and have premarital sex, you’re going to hell!”


19
Aug 09

Abandoning the Flock

Exactly how stupid do they think we are?  The Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s actions seem to betray their words – they are certainly not evangelizing and educating “the poor and needy”.

Bishop Joseph P. McFadden’s (wiki) goal as stated in the Philly.com article seems to be continually minimizing their education presence in the City and its older, poorer suburbs.

Meanwhile, the Archdiocese started a new begathon, attempting to raise $200mm to build schools in the (wealthier) suburbs, while simultaneously holding a gun to inner-city and donut hole suburb school and parishes.   It also seems McFadden is geographically challenged:

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