re: #9 HappyWarrior

The Nuns really aren’t in Catholic schools much anymore these days but they most certainly used them when my Dad went to Catholic school as a kid. A kind of weird anecdote but he’s the only of his six siblings not to graduate from Catholic school but also the only one not to have a divorce.

That’s actually part of the Pope’s thought process: There are some orders of Nuns that are newer and much more traditionalist than the older orders, and they are growing instead of shrinking. They also seek to get into teaching in some places, and because they would be far cheaper than most teachers such sentiments have a following in some Catholic schools. Some this is related to an idea among those same traditionalist that Vatican II and reform only brought Catholic education defeat and decline. Better in their minds to reverse concessions and take a hard line. such sentiments may be correctly termed ‘reactionary’, for such a description of them is literally true.