Good News

Good news for a change. A Catholic Church in my area is thriving. It has had over 60 Baptisms this year. The Pastor is a very faithful orthodox priest. The parish has Adoration on an ongoing basis. With all of this good news, there is even more good news. The parish has decided to start a grade school, starting out with a kindergarten, first and maybe second grade. There is more good news, the teachers for the school are going to be nuns. There is more good news, the nuns are from the orthodox order of Dominican nuns who are in full habit. This undertaking is a great example of what the Catholic Church must do to stop its decline and be restored to its greatness. Yes, the answer for the Catholic Church is to be Catholic, not watered down Catholic, or even Protestant Catholic.
Unfortunately, Pope Francis has been and continues to be trying to take the Catholic Church down the modernist road. His synod on synodality is anti-Catholic. Though he has said in the past that he opposes blessings for so-called "same-sex unions," it appears that it was still a topic for discussion at the recent round of the synod. The Catholic Church, on ther whole, has strayed so far from being authentically Catholic under Francis. Modernists and other evil forces have long infiltrated the Catholic Church, as Pope Pius X warned about, but Vatican II seems to be the point where the Catholic Church really got off track. By EVERY measurement, the Catholic Church has been in decline since then, with the number of those Catholics attending Sunday Mass, the number of priests and nuns and those studying to be priests and nuns have all much decreased.
Catholic grade schools use to be taught nearly completely by nuns. No it wasn't perfect, nothing is, but it seems that young Catholics were much better educated in the Catholic Faith than is the situation to day with nearly all of the teachers being lay, though there are many fine lay teachers. Having nuns teach also eased the financial challenges for Catholic grade schools. The nuns would usually live in a convent at the parish and having to pay salaries of lay teachers wasn't then a problem. Many Catholic schools have closed for financial reasons in recent years, but overall, the main reason they have closed is that they have gotten away from being strongly Catholic. The parish in my area starting a grade school with orthodox nuns as teachers is leading the way at restoring Catholic education and the Catholic Church.