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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m Catholic and we send out kids to an Episcopal school now (we were waitlisted at our first choice Catholic K-8); however one kid is going to Catholic high school in the Fall and the younger sibling will also.

I am offended when people go to Catholic school to escape public and treat the religious part of going to a Catholic school as an inconvenient by product. It is actually “the thing” and not a byproduct. Your dismissiveness of Catholic teachings and traditions in pursuit of any alternative to public is insulting. [/quote]

Do you think the Episcopalians are offended you used their school as a convenient fall-back?

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The religions are very close to identical, so PP is not dismissive of the religious aspects of the school.[/quote]

High Anglican is similar, but with KEY differences. They can have gays, women, abortions, no confessions required, etc. I mean, kinda big stuff. BUT if you like a Christian church with lots and lots of really involved and elaborate ceremonies, symbolism, regalia and affectation and you're not into the Orthodox stuff, High Anglican would feel very familiar. But there are quite a few American Episcopal parishes where you would not recognize the service -- there could be a Lutheran pastor talking about what he learned from his Imam and all gender neutral hymns, etc.

I mean 80 percent of most Christian faiths are the same, bible, Jesus, blah blah... but the big difference is that in the Catholic church is top-down and the rest are bottom-up. Most of the big Protestant sects in the US elect leadership in some way or another or have some legislative mechanism for affecting church policy. In the Catholic church it all comes from the top. [/quote]

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