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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you done a tour and info session?  We are also reform.  We visited and thought the school was great in almost every respect, but we just could not get past the religion piece.  Asked our tour guide how non-Catholic students fit in and her response was to say that she was not Catholic but has really enjoyed going to Catholic masses.  [b]Not the answer we were looking for[/b]…. Another friend had the exact same experience on her tour.

I would call Hillel and speak with current Jewish students.  The school really seems wonderful in so many respects, but [b]our DC was pretty turned off by the religion aspect.[/b][/quote]

It is a Catholic school, after all.   I mean, how would you react if someone showed up at your synagogue and said "Yeah, I'd love to hang out here with you guys, but it would be nice if you toned down the Jewish-ness of your events?"   [/quote]

[b]No, the correct answer for our comfort level [/b]would have been:  It doesn’t matter if you aren’t Catholic.  People of all religions can get involved in lots of activities that have no religious component.  Not - it’s fine, you’ll get used to mass.  We had no issues with it being a Catholic school and like the community service emphasis of Jesuits, but if the majority of kids are regularly going to mass on Sundays, that’s something my kid would not be comfortable with.  OP, you may be comfortable with this and it’s not a dig on the school at all.  It just wasn’t something we were comfortable with.[/quote]

This could be worded a lot less offensively.   It seems pretty bold to visit another religion's institution and claim they don't answer questions "correct."   Again I ask, how would you feel if someone visited your place of worship and told you and your fellow congregants that the amount of Judaism exhibited there was turning them off?
I'd support you if you told them to piss off.[/quote]

Your comparison is off.  It’s not a church, it’s a university.  And I said it was not the correct answer for our comfort level, not the correct answer for any prospective student.  We wouldn’t have visited at all if we weren’t ok with it being Catholic.  It’s bit obtuse for you to think a prospective Jewish student would not to be put off by a tour guide answering a question about what it’s like if you are not Catholic by saying mass is more enjoyable than you think.[/quote]

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