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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Georgetown Alum.  My senior year I sat next to a retired dean that was a priest and I asked him what is the big deal that the school is Jesuit, because a speaker kept mentioning it.  He said the Jesuit colleges promoted learning and scholarship more than other Catholic school orders.  There was a group of Jesuit colleges that decided they were going to be more like other universities as part of their core mission of scholarship.  The schools weren't going to so focused on Theology, Divinity and Spirituality.  The colleges were more for the broader Catholic community and outsiders, vs. training the next generation of priests.  Then he went on to say that Georgetown has a large Jewish faculty and student population and its muslim population is growing. He mentioned how they hired a Rabbi for a kosher kitchen and had plans for halal meals, and how they told all muslim students that are more than welcome to their their prayers in the chapel.  I was pretty embarrassed I was so ignorant.

So the Jesuit schools are often the ones where you are surprised to learn they are Catholic schools when you first find out. They have a reputation of being liberal and some Catholics really like it and others don't.  Honestly, I hadn't a clue.  I'm not Catholic and didn't even know Georgetown was a Catholic school until I applied.

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It’s funny to me that everything you say about Jesuit teaching is literally against Jesuit teachings. It’s very Jesuit though.[/quote]

I haven't a clue.  This was at an awards dinner for scholarship winners and my sponsor was a no show.  So a dean asked this much older man to sit next to me in her place.  He was very chatty, though very old.  I wish I could remember his name.  This was in the mid-90s.  He mention something about a meeting a long time ago.  He also mentioned how the DC Catholic school system, especially at the elementary level had been basically dominated by poorer and working class black students that were Baptists.  Where these parents were scrapping up money to send their kids to these Catholic schools though they weren't Catholic because they wanted a better education in a safer environment for them.  How the Archdiocese of DC made a commitment to serve the community, keep the tuition for these schools low, and how important it was.  I think a few decades later I heard they turned into DC Charter schools after the Archdiocese couldn't afford them anymore.  I just sort of kept thinking how that probably would have crushed him.  But he was just trying to give me examples of inclusive they were.  I'm a minority, so I am not sure if he was trying too relate with me.

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