By David G Bonagura, Jr., Catholic Thing, Jan. 30, 2022
David G. Bonagura Jr. teaches at St. Joseph’s Seminary, New York. He is the author of Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism and Staying with the Catholic Church: Trusting God’s Plan of Salvation.
This week we will celebrate Catholic schools that labor heroically in the face of a hostile culture to educate our children in faith, wisdom, and virtue. Their contribution to the Catholic Church in this country is incalculable, and threatened by forces external and internal. If we wish to see Catholicism flourish in the future, then our schools have to be our number one investment priority. With the collapse of religious sensibilities in America and in the Church herself, the children in these schools are our best hope of reversing the “greying” of the Catholic faithful. …