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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]Mission of the ADW schools: Our mission is to educate all students in a Christian environment, welcoming children of all faiths. We promote the value of the individual while encouraging mutual respect through our Catholic faith and traditions. [/i]

For some reason you are hell bent on sending an unwelcoming message from Catholic schools to those on this website, not sure why. But your view is yours alone. [/quote]

You don't spend much time with the alumni of these independent Catholic schools depending instead on position papers from the Bishops.

The piece from O'Connell was obviously written to address concerns being raised by the majority and to defend the practice of admitting non-Catholics. If people weren't complaining or asking questions there would have been no reason to write it. So maybe I'm not alone in the world.[/quote]

Yes. I do spend time with alumni of these independent Catholic schools... even ones you have probably never heard of like St. Mary's Ryken and Regina (which does not exist anymore).

I think some people have experience with the Gonzaga/Prep Bethesda/Chevy Chase/Potomac crowd and are judging a whole Archdiocese of Washington Catholic community on the few bad apples in the bunch. Yes, they can be snobby and insular, but there are 50+ catholic elementary schools in the ADW and those few are not representative of the whole catholic community. I am sorry if that crowd is insular and rude, i have been around enough to know they can be. I also know that not everybody in HR/St. Jane/BS/mercy are the same. This area is transient, and while many people have know each other for generations, many have not. Many have married non-Catholics and I have never seen anybody not welcomed due to their religion.

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