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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are going to maintain the lie by becoming parishioners at a church and regularly attending mass and, probably, tithing, getting your kid baptized in a Catholic Church will not provide much boost. If you mark Catholic in the application, most schools will then ask you which parish you belong to. And in some cases (especially for k-8, maybe for diocesan HS) they will contact the parish to see if you are an active member. [/quote]
Would you be considered an active member even if you only attend mass a couple times a year and make donations without actually tithing?[/quote]
I have no idea what a parish would say if asked. Maybe confirm that you are on their books as a parishioner but not very active. [/quote]

No in our parish. To maintain in-parish tuition status, our parish basically does spot checks a few times per year and randomly sends kids home on a Friday with a form for the priest to sign at weekend mass.

And re: the convert-for-admissions thing: what I see is that the family is gung-ho for the year before applications and the year of applications, and then they disappear. I think that is part of building up active parishioner status.

At one point we regularly attended mass at a nearby parish because the schedule suited us better, but we did “double envelopes” and gave envelopes to both parishes so we could maintain active status at our regular parish. A lot of people do this to stay on parish rolls as their lives evolve- my grandparents had dual registrations and did double envelopes for years because they wanted to have their funeral mass at their childhood parish.[/quote]

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