WOF 287: The Future of Catholic Schools

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

According to a recent Wall Street Journal headline, “Catholic Schools Are Losing Students at Record Rates, and Hundreds Are Closing.” Catholic schools peaked in the 1960s with about 5.5 million students in 11,000 schools. Today, Catholic schools boast only 1.6 million students in 5,900 schools. What explains this decline? And what can we do about it?

Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt discuss the situation of Catholic schools, the purpose of Catholic education, and where Catholic schools should move in the future.

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0:00.0	The Catholic school system is essential to evangelization,
0:04.4	to the formation of the next generation of Catholics,
0:08.0	and therefore, to the formation of the culture and the society.
0:20.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:21.6	I'm Brandon Vott, the Senior Content Director here at Word on Fire.
0:25.3	Today, we are discussing the future of Catholic schools.
0:29.0	We're going to be talking about why many have closed, why that matters, and what schools
0:34.5	will look like in the future in order to flourish.
0:37.1	But before we get there, Bishop Aaron always good to see you.
0:40.1	Welcome.
0:41.1	Hey, Brandon.
0:42.1	Thank you.
0:43.1	Always good to be with you.
0:44.1	A couple of weeks ago, I asked you about one of the recent Bishop Aaron presents discussions
0:48.0	you did with Jessica Houton Wilson, but you just recently did another one.
0:52.3	We've been recording a lot of these together.
0:54.5	We're going to release them as sort of a season here pretty soon.
0:58.1	But the most recent one you did was with So Rob Amari.
1:01.3	Tell us who he is and what that discussion was like.
1:03.8	Really interesting guy.
1:04.8	He's the editorial page editor for the New York Post, one of the most popular newspapers
1:09.4	in the country.
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