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Crunchy Catholic Schools?
[Kathryn Jean Lopez 03/16 11:33 AM]An e-mail: "Isn't there something good and 'crunchy' about Catholic schools, which often
require parental involvement as part of the tuition deal?"
No! There is *nothing* "crunchy" about Catholic schools as such.
That's part of the problem with what has been written on the blog (I haven't
read the book). Whatever is good, true, and noble is, by their definition,
"crunchy." By that token, whoever recognizes the importance of transcendence
is dragooned as a "crunchy"; if they resist, they are mourned as a hapless
victim of consumerism or denounced as a hypocrite.
That's a great way to generate reaction, but it's a backward way to
understand the world, and a hopeless way to develop a philosophy of life.
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