Gina

The mind will not be educated at the expense of the heart. -- Bl. Basil Anthony Moreau, C.S.C.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@amywelborn2 Highland Avenue campus, it just says "John Carroll High School." (It's my alma mater and I wrote a piece on the change back to "John Carroll Catholic High School" for the school paper.)

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@amywelborn2 Mr. Carroll died before the school opened and they named it for him. The "Catholic" in the name was in the original documents but was left off in 1947 and officially re-added in 1997. If you look at the sign on the front of the building, which came from the...

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@godandchocolate @poyntilism There's a significant number of kids who experience Confirmation prep as a major turnoff because it feels like petty bureaucracy to them. I don't buy the theory that a yearlong prep process is keeping them in the church or encouraging parental involvement.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate A lot of the very online Catholic presentation of the faith sells soundbites and certainty and rules, and that's just not the reality of what lived Catholic experience is.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate Yep. If people were citing their time spent in a parish, or having kids in Catholic school, or working in a Catholic hospital as the reason they joined, well and good, but joining because of a podcast version of Catholicism is not going to go well for anyone.

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@godandchocolate I'd be interested to know how many of those converts remain in the Catholic Church. I know at least three families personally who entered and left within 3-5 years because they were still looking for the greener grass.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate I'm a classically trained singer and I'm generally unimpressed with church music -- which is exactly what I want from church music. If I want a concert I'll go to a concert. Liturgical music has a very different purpose and function.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate The changes were also, by and large, welcomed by Catholics.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate People aren't talking to the many, many Catholic elders who lived through the changes of V2. My parents' experience of Mass growing up was not a high Mass with a trained schola, and outside of very large parishes in wealthy areas, neither was most folks'!

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@godandchocolate Show me any female saints of the past two millennia who've refused to respond to the needs of their times.

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@mary_pezzulo I really need male Catholics to refrain from weaponizing out of context quotes from female saints in an attempt to tell us how we should live out our vocations.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate @ProfDanRober I have several stories about people who entered the Catholic Church and had left it two to three years later. Emphasizing numbers on entry is a really misleading presentation of data.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate In 1940, Catholics were largely living in ethnic enclaves whose social and cultural lives revolved around the parish church in a way that was already starting to change with greater mainstream US acceptance of Catholics.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate The acoustics are as gorgeous as the mosaics!

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate Exactly.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate But longitudinally speaking, are these young people graduating and participating actively in a parish once they're not with their college friends and there's not a lot of programming geared to them?

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@godandchocolate The narrative that there's a huge influx of 18-24 year olds in the Church really needs scrutiny. Yes, college kids will show up at events for college students because their friends are going. They'll go to Mass with their friends, especially if there are social events tied to it.

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@kristen90024 @SeamusNua ...of transplants from the Northeast and Midwest who were coming for work.

[Gina @Ms_PEnglish]

@kristen90024 @SeamusNua I grew up here in the South and I love it too. I'm also interested in the history and development of Catholic schools and parishes in Georgia, and the Archdiocese of Atlanta more than doubled its number of parishes from 1977-2023, due in large part to the influx..

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@godandchocolate Did nobody stop to think that demographic changes in the US affect church attendance? Catholics clustered in ethnic enclaves in the Northern US until after WW2.