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re: Catholic Universities - What’s Catholic about them?
Posted on 8/9/19 at 10:51 pm to BearsFan
Posted on 8/9/19 at 10:51 pm to BearsFan
It’s worded strange but I gathered that he’s saying the catholic universities are rooted in history with academic success. While the Protestant ones referenced are mediocre schools established solely to allow Protestant elitists to thrive.
The K-12 comparison with the athletic reference was not as clear as it should have been.
The K-12 comparison with the athletic reference was not as clear as it should have been.
This post was edited on 8/9/19 at 10:52 pm
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Posted on 8/9/19 at 10:51 pm to CoolKat
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Tulane is Jewish
Thats why we call it Jewlane
Posted on 8/9/19 at 10:52 pm to Jimbeaux
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There’s a few extra religious statues. There is a church or chapel ON Campus as opposed to adjacent to campus.
Actually, LSU, even though a public university, has a Catholic Church ON campus.. at least there was one on Highland Rd when i went to LSU in the 90s and dated a Catholic girl who took me there a couple times.
Posted on 8/9/19 at 10:54 pm to Sweltering Chill
Christ the King is “on campus” in the sense that the diocese has a long-term ground lease from the university. But the buildings and operations are all independent of LSU.
This post was edited on 8/9/19 at 11:02 pm
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:00 pm to Golfer
Well Baylor and Tulane are both considered top 100 by US NEWS so idk if mediocre is the right word. I also don't think either have much of anything to do with glossolalia. Seemed like some sorta decent trolling on his part.
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:01 pm to Jimbeaux
Began to type and realized it’s a complicated answer. Honestly, there’s some large universities that were founded as catholic institutions simply because the catholic priests who founded them were the most educated people in the area and then over time they developed into large, secularly populated schools. There are also tons of smaller Catholic universities across the US that are still strict to their mission to preach a catholic education. Really depends on the religious affiliation though. Jesuit schools will be more progressive... yet also the most militant. Then you have Holy Cross which is Notre Dame, Etc.
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:06 pm to Sweltering Chill
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Actually, LSU, even though a public university, has a Catholic Church ON campus.. at least there was one on Highland Rd when i went to LSU in the 90s and dated a Catholic girl who took me there a couple times.
The joke when LSU first played Notre Dame in football in 1970 (when our roster was filled with a lot of S Louisiana Cajun boys) was that our team was more Catholic than theirs.
As to the OP’s point, I think it speaks to a bigger issue that modern higher education has become so monolithic, where there is more interest in every school adhering to the same sort of dogma, such that there’s no longer much room for what used to be other defining characteristics of various different schools - religious affiliation being one.
There’s basically only a single orthodoxy to which they now all bow.
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:13 pm to Manzielathon
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Because they exist solely for the exploitation of children?
Wait, when did this thread become about Protestant Seminaries?
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:20 pm to GentleJackJones
Baylor and TCU are hardly 'snake handling schools.' They arent Ivy League but Baylor in particular is pretty dann good
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:24 pm to Sweltering Chill
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Actually, LSU, even though a public university, has a Catholic Church ON campus.. at least there was one on Highland Rd when i went to LSU in the 90s and dated a Catholic girl who took me there a couple times.
As does the Baptist Student Center and an Episcopal chapel. There may be others but those are the ones I'm aware of
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:43 pm to Golfer
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The growth of magnet and charter programs has pulled non-Catholics that were previously sending their kids to parochial schools.
My kid is attending catholic school right now.
If he gets into a magnet program for kindergarten next year, we’re pulling him out his current school in a heartbeat.
If he doesn’t get a magnet seat, he’ll still have his spot at his current school now.
I can also add to the fact that a lot of families that has history with sending their kids to catholic schools (from the BR area) moved/are moving to other parishes with good performing public schools.
Posted on 8/9/19 at 11:47 pm to Modern
There's a pretty big Catholic homeschool movement as well.
Posted on 8/10/19 at 12:32 am to Jimbeaux
Should we bitch about Catholics? Catholic baseball? diabetes? WTF nobody reading that crap 
Posted on 8/10/19 at 12:41 am to Jimbeaux
notre dame hosts baby killers with fanfare. but the church is circling the drain with a communist Pope and coverup of a global kid f-ing ring
Posted on 8/10/19 at 12:42 am to Y.A. Tittle
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The joke when LSU first played Notre Dame in football in 1970 (when our roster was filled with a lot of S Louisiana Cajun boys) was that our team was more Catholic than theirs.
As to the OP’s point, I think it speaks to a bigger issue that modern higher education has become so monolithic, where there is more interest in every school adhering to the same sort of dogma, such that there’s no longer much room for what used to be other defining characteristics of various different schools - religious affiliation being one.
There’s basically only a single orthodoxy to which they now all bow.
perfect explanation
Posted on 8/10/19 at 1:02 am to Jimbeaux
Notre Dame is very Catholic. Pretty noticeable difference between that and a state school.
Posted on 8/10/19 at 1:11 am to Y.A. Tittle
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The joke when LSU first played Notre Dame in football in 1970 (when our roster was filled with a lot of S Louisiana Cajun boys) was that our team was more Catholic than theirs.
I say this as an ND alum - LSU and A&M almost certainly have a larger Catholic population in raw numbers than does ND.
As a percentage of the student body, obviously ND is one of the very top in the country, but that's just a numbers thing. LSU and A&M have more people in their freshmen classes than does ND in the entire school undergrad (in LSU's case) and grad (in A&M's case).
I can't speak for the East Coast schools like Nova and Georgetown, but Notre Dame is still very, very Catholic.
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:41 am to Jimbeaux
Catholic > Protestant
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:47 am to Jim Rockford
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Baylor in particular is pretty dann good
Meh. Rice is "pretty damn good." Baylor is okay. Certainly not worth the price.
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:49 am to AbuTheMonkey
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Notre Dame is very Catholic.
Yep. Same with Georgetown, Boston College, Villanova, St. John's --- basically, the entire (former) Big East for that matter.
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