A local Catholic parish may also subsidize an affiliated school, but those subsidies are funded by weekly collections at mass, and services in most Catholic churches have been suspended since March.In Richmond, Calif., the principal of St. Cornelius Catholic School "For me, it's horrible," Antolin says. The four parishes were expected to provide more than $400,000 this year — more than 30% of the school’s total revenues — to keep the school afloat.“Given the significant decline in offertory collections due to COVID-19, it is unlikely that the parishes would be able to continue this level of support in the 2020-21 school year and beyond,” Dolan said.Our Lady of Wisdom Regional School, which opened in 1938, saw its enrollment drop 37%, to 66 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, from 2014 to the current school year.Its four supporting parishes were expected to provide $475,000, or 45% of the school’s total revenue this school year.Saint Peter of Alcantara School, which opened in 1925, has seen enrollment decline 52%, to 99 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, since 2014. “COVID-19 has had a significant financial impact on all of the parishes and schools within the Diocese, resulting in the difficult decision to close these three Catholic elementary schools in order to eliminate the unsustainable financial stress on their parishes.”James Cultrara, co-chairman of the New York State Coalition for Independent and Religious Schools, said dozens of private schools are likely to close unless the federal government steps in with temporary, emergency tuition assistance or extends the Payroll Protection Program. The catholic church is the largest land owner on the planet. Please enable notifications or using normal browsing mode. They're often providing a social safety net. View author archive; Get author RSS feed ; Most Popular Today 1 Joker face! The closing of these schools, particularly those that serve marginalized or disadvantaged communities, is devastating. “Given the devastation of this pandemic, I’m grateful more schools didn’t meet this fate and that Catholic schools nearby are ready to welcome all the kids,” Dolan added.
"Beyond the nine schools already closing in the Boston archdiocese, 24 more are on a "watch list," Carroll says.
Cardinal Joseph Tobin, archbishop of Newark, at a live-streamed service on Palm Sunday.Ten Catholic schools - nine elementary and one high school around northern New Jersey - will close at the end of the academic year, the Academy of St. Therese of Lisieux in Cresskill, St. Anne School in Fair Lawn, Trinity Academy in Caldwell, Good Shepherd Academy in Irvington, Our Lady Help of Christians School in East Orange, St. James the Apostle School in Springfield, The Academy of Our Lady of Peace in New Providence, Holy Spirit School in Union, St. Genevieve School in Elizabeth and Cristo Rey Newark High School will shut down, according to a news release.The ten schools will continue online learning through the end of the year, in line with “We recognize that this is an incredibly sad time for our school communities, especially during this pandemic crisis,” Barbara Dolan, acting superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Newark, said. Saint Peter of Alcantara Elementary School in Port Washington won't reopen in September.
She could send them to another Catholic school in the area, but they all charge much higher tuition, more than she can afford on her salary as a nurse's assistant at a San Francisco hospital. Her daughter was preparing to enter seventh grade at St. Cornelius, and her son was bound for kindergarten.
I’m a Catholic & I can’t stand their behavior and capitulation to the religion of bombs & suicide vests.The nuns taught my mother to speak English (she said they beat it into her!). “There will be many schools that simply will not be able to reopen.”If the schools close, many of their students will end up in public schools, straining already stressed budgets and adding students at a time when the public schools face challenges to create enough “social distance” to reopen and function safely, he said.Dolan said the three schools on Long Island, like Catholic schools nationwide, have sustained enrollment declines for years and required growing financial support from parishes to supplement tuition revenues.The coronavirus crisis caused registrations to drop further, he said.“Unfortunately, the enrollment decline, combined with the impact of COVID-19 on both parish offertory collections and tuition collections, and fundraising efforts, has made it clear that it is not feasible to maintain these schools financially,” Dolan said.Holy Family Regional School, formerly called Christ the King school, was established by the Dominican Sisters of Amityville on the campus of the Parish of Christ the King.
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