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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those confused, I promise you 100%, that The Heights is not officially a Catholic school. Many of our families don't even know this.

"The Heights School is a private, independent, preparatory school for boys, grades three to twelve."[/quote]

I don’t understand your point on this.   They have a catholic chapel on school grounds.  They follow catholic traditions.  [b]You’re being pedantic. [/b] [/quote]

Is the Heights being pedantic for stating that it is not canonically (according to Canon law) Catholic on its website? It's in the last paragraph.  https://heights.edu/student-life/faith/
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No.  You are being pedantic for insisting that this is in any way meaningful to families looking for a catholic education for their kids.  For that purpose, the Heights is a catholic school.  [/quote]

Let's just stop using "pedantic" as an insult. I am not the PP who accused the Heights of not being Catholic in the first place. I was just trying to clarify. You are right that students will learn about Catholicism at the Heights and most importantly, see it lived. The annoying PP who accused the Heights of not being Catholic was right that canonically, it is not Catholic, as the Heights admits on its own website. This is a BOTH/AND situation. You are both right.

The only practical consequence that I can think of is that when the Pope comes to visit the Archdiocese, ADW hands out a lot of tickets to officially affiliated schools. I think that this might have been an issue during the last papal visit and Heights parents were very disappointed that their kids were left out of the school ticket distribution. Any Catholic, of course, could enter the lottery for tickets through their parishes and many Heights teachers and students attended this way. Of course, the Opus Dei centers usually get an allotment of papal tickets as well.[/quote]

Heights got tickets to the popes visit. The famous image of “man kissing the pope” that was on front of all teachers was a teacher there, Jeff Thompson who is married to Dominique Dawes![/quote]

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