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[quote=Anonymous]Depends on the Catholic high school’s status.

1.  Diocesan high schools are generally going to be pretty middle of the road for a non-Catholic. You’ll get Catholicism there, but you won’t feel any pressure.

2. Religious Catholic high schools are where it gets dicey for non-Catholics and it really, really comes down to the religious order running the school. Jesuits, for example, sometimes get rained in by the Diocese for not being Catholic enough while other religious orders are much more intentional about their Catholicism.

That said, if you’re non-Catholic the confessionals are a non-issue as a Priest shouldn’t be offering confession and absolution to non-Catholic students. Additionally, many Catholic students choose to do confessions face-to-face rather than using the confessional. So, even if you don’t see confessionals at a Catholic high school, odds are that Catholics are still participating in sacrament of Confession at the school. At my kids’ two different Catholic high schools they have confessionals (both religious schools) but most students do it face-to-face.

The Diocesan high school I grew up at did not technically have confessionals but it was ten steps from our basketball locker room to a major parish in our city and the school priests offered face-to-face on campus and private in the confessionals at the church building next door. [/quote]

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