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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve seen that. It’s the kind of thing that happens from time to time in parish schools and in k-8s. It just takes a few parents who are mad at the parish priest for being too conservative or liberal or think their 3rd grade boy doesn’t have enough good soccer players in their grade and “needs athletic peers” or someone whose fraternity brother is talking about how much better St. Whoever’s HS admissions results are. And sometimes it’s driven by adult socializing and clannishness. Then suddenly 3 families are moving each with 3 kids and then 3 more and before you know it a few grades have lost a bunch of kids and siblings. It wasn’t as common when I was a kid because people were more tied to parishes and priests stuck around forever and so the vibe of a school didn’t change from year to year.

A lot of this is way too personal for leadership to even address. [/quote]

So the family would presumably begin attending Mass at the new further away school/church too?[/quote]

Ha. Briefly and for long enough to be considered for admission, and/or they just do double envelopes and call it a day. I say this as someone from a long line of double envelope people…[/quote]

What's double envelopes? [/quote]

In order to officially be part of a parish, you register with the office and get a set of collection envelopes to put your mass offering in every week (now most people donate online, but same idea). Parish registration is important for things like sacraments (First Communion, funerals, etc.) and discounted school tuition. Sometimes people have ties to one parish because of where they grew up or a neighborhood where they first moved after a relocation or for cultural reasons, but another parish is more practical for things like school or mass attendance. So people register in two parishes and donate to both so they can be considered active parishioners. Officially I think you’re not supposed to do it, but priests generally don’t care.

In my case, we belong to one parish but my DD wanted to make her first communion in the parish where all her private Catholic school friends belong, so we talked to the priest and joined that parish the year before but maintained our relationship with our old parish.

In my mom’s case, she belongs to one parish in the old neighborhood in NJ and another one in the suburb where she lives now. She wants her funeral to be in her old parish which is very aligned with our ethnic heritage.

I have friends who do it because their home parish doesn’t have a school but they want their kids to be part of a Catholic school and the parish community around it. They don’t do it just for the tuition discount because they would get that anyway since their parish doesn’t have a school.[/quote]

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