Apostrophe

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...In an era in which Ivy League and other elite colleges the teachers are guys in black robes...

...And there is the rub...

...Perhaps Spirituality is precisely what distinguishes schools like Sacred the most ecumenically minded Catholic independent schools Heart, Woodside Priory, and a few traditionalist Protestant are the twenty-one members of the Network of Sacred Heart academies from schools where community service is not Schools, and many Jesuit schools also have substantial non- grounded in a religious norm...

...Even though that is very important American Scholar essay still exists at some private schools, to the Catholic faith, I think I saw the good in it for different of course...

...in memory 1999 Peter Cobb of CSEE says of these Catholic independent schools that "people feel comfortable when folks are reli!Your Easy Essays...

...Bleary-eyed as they often were, the students ever, the transformation of CRIS to CSEE suggests that not seemed to welcome chapel as more than a glorified assem- many of these schools will seize that opportunity...

...students discover themselves spiritually, it seems to me, religion in schools must be normative-and "lowest-commonn 1997, during a sabbatical from newspaper denominator ecumenism" isn't much of a norm...

...I really was happy that they required us to do a hundred hours of community service beThe bygone boarding-school ideal Hicks described in his fore we could graduate...

...tle strange for receiving an award during my senior year Peter Maurin: May 1877-May 1949 for helping out with the liturgy ceremonies so much...

...tant academies of old but independent Roman Catholic The restorationists would beg to differ, and so would I. schools with large numbers of non-Catholic pupils...

...in them, swipe quick Christopher Stoner, a recent Haverford College graduate from an Episcopal background, attended one of Woodside as your wit, gallic Priory's friendly rivals, the Sacred Heart Preparatory School (not to say galactic) in Atherton, California, where he found the yoke of Catholic a soupcon of garlic education fairly easy...

...The Benedictines, choose between two missions that in the beginning were whose order founded the school, were vastly mutually compatible but now are at war: preserving their outnumbered on the faculty by lay teachers of all denomi- Christian identity and providing a diverse student body (that nations...

...Even with a monthly Mass I didn't feel encouraged to live a Catholic life...

...To help Catholic enrollments...

...giously declarative...

...work, I taught at the Woodside Priory School in Does that mean that prestigious private schools must I Portola Valley, California...

...Not necdents often comment that at first it seems odd that a few of essarily...

...Most families are most comfortable when people are not always negotiating Hard as a hickory nut- where they come down...

...If people go to a Catholic in a mendicant's songs...

...Or into the chapel...

...Indeed, the monks were such an exotic sight that increasingly includes not only Jews and unbelievers but also the school's promotional materials explained that "new stu- Muslims) with a safe passage to Harvard and Yale...

...Lewis's phrase) once preached from Protestant prep-school pulpits...

...The Catholic schools are not intent on not easy-assays converting non-Catholics to Catholicism...

...It is an exquisite irony that some elite Catholic schools now play the role of exposing privileged students of all Apostrophe backgrounds to the "mere Christianity" (in C.S...

...We live in a culture of constant pohard to rebut- litical, religious, and moral negotiation and I think it drives a switch of the hickory stick people up the wall...

...Interestingly, many of these are not the Protes- reasons, not attached to spirituality...

...Howprogram...

...He recalls that "everyone was supin a clove-like fist: posed to take religion classes each year, and even though given a gentle twist they were taught from a Catholic point of view, it didn't really feel like anyone was trying to convert non-Catholics...

...I had selected a lot of the poetry and music for the ceremonies that year, yet I am not Catholic, and at the time I was agJohn Fandel nostic at best...

...But I think part of it did really have an effect on me...

...At the but from first-rate public schools, one could argue that prep Priory, the student body's week began in the chapel, not schools have been liberated from their perceived obligation with Catholic worship-though Masses were regularly cel- to be inclusive at all costs and are now free to be as "reliebrated there-but with a compulsory nondenominational giously declarative" as Catholic independent schools...

...school they have to acknowledge this...

...they are intent on mending the world's wrongs living out their faith tradition...

...draw most of their talented students not from prep schools Many of those new students were not Catholic...

...it opens up, green power Stoner, who went into teaching himself, adds: "I felt a litin the palm: love's flower...