Are Catholic schools closing because Catholicism is in decline, or is Catholicism in decline because Catholic schools are closing? That’s just one of the questions Lynn Doyle asks of her guests in this 24-minute program. She begins her show with guest Jerry Davis, one of the members of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Blue Ribbon Commission on Catholic schools, and ends it with a panel that includes Bob McCarty, executive director at the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry. Most provocative soundbyte? “Catholics have contracepted and aborted themselves into a decline.”
What do you think is responsible for the decline? And how do Catholic schools and dioceses respond to it?