Definitely feels like a weird thing to to need to centralize instead of letting local dioceses collect and distribute money. Doesn't subsidiarity apply here pretty obviously?
Definitely feels like a weird thing to to need to centralize instead of letting local dioceses collect and distribute money. Doesn't subsidiarity apply here pretty obviously?
Yes, and yet subsidiarity can’t do everything. Somethings can be rightly supported by higher levels of organisation. A lot of Catholic schools in the US (and Australia despite government funding) are unaffordable for families with disabled kids. It’s absolutely unjust that they be denied a wanted full experience of a Catholic education for material reasons. A national fund to support these students and their families would go a long way when their local funding is insufficient.
They’re unaffordable to lots of families with kids who don’t have disabilities too.
The only way to balance the higher cost of catholic education due to lay teachers who deserve a living wage to support their OWN families (bc of no longer having lower paid religious) with the fact that many Catholics with large families can’t afford remotely near prep school prices is for parish/diocese subsidies.
All of which of course first presumes its a catholic education worth sacrificing for and not just a prep school with a great education that isn’t remotely catholic except for the descriptor 🤷🏽♀️
Definitely feels like a weird thing to to need to centralize instead of letting local dioceses collect and distribute money. Doesn't subsidiarity apply here pretty obviously?
Yes, and yet subsidiarity can’t do everything. Somethings can be rightly supported by higher levels of organisation. A lot of Catholic schools in the US (and Australia despite government funding) are unaffordable for families with disabled kids. It’s absolutely unjust that they be denied a wanted full experience of a Catholic education for material reasons. A national fund to support these students and their families would go a long way when their local funding is insufficient.
They’re unaffordable to lots of families with kids who don’t have disabilities too.
The only way to balance the higher cost of catholic education due to lay teachers who deserve a living wage to support their OWN families (bc of no longer having lower paid religious) with the fact that many Catholics with large families can’t afford remotely near prep school prices is for parish/diocese subsidies.
All of which of course first presumes its a catholic education worth sacrificing for and not just a prep school with a great education that isn’t remotely catholic except for the descriptor 🤷🏽♀️