The Roman Catholic Church In Cincinnati (school district, university, population)

[CarpathianPeasant]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

I think you need to determine what you are complaining about. If it is the nuns no longer go about town in their habits, I think you need to get up to date. The church had a problem with a lack of vocations. Something had to be done to encourage young people to join in the clergy.

Making them outcasts in the general society did not seem the way to go. The visible manifestations are far less important than what is being taught to the youth. Anyone who feels a purely dogmatic approach is effective in today's society is going to lose. People want to hear reasons, and then they want to make up their own mind.

That is something the Church in general does not want to hear. They want a purely dogmatic approach. Everyone should believe the gospels, which have a problem being verified to who and when they were written, are the true word of God. This is also true of all of the splinter Christian churches. And yes, I will use the word splinter. The Christian religion has how many splinter groups? If you do not like the word splinter, then what would you suggest?

But at least we do not go about killing each other as the Muslim splinter groups seem capable of.

The majority of the major wars in our history have been fought over religion in one way or another. The remanents of the Crusades are still haunting us today, due to the atrocities they committed.

Item 1: I'm not "complaining" about anything. People check this board for information about a town. I have merely said Cincinnati is an Archdiocesan see.

Item 2: In regard to the "uniforms" of nuns, brothers and priests, I don't know that the substance of the matter is that different from other uniforms such as police or military. The uniform carries the authority and the "presence."

Item 3: There's nothing particularly modern about people wanting reasons for things. Perhaps your life has been based on the principle of do x, y and z because someone said so. It's not that way for everyone.

Item 4: According to the public library information I got, the predominent Protestant faith is Baptist. How splinter groups figure into the matter leaves me at a loss.

[TomJones123]

See, now we have turned not to Cincinnati and the Catholic Church, but religious discussion in it's own right. Which is fine, except there is a separate forum for that.

[kjbrill]

Originally Posted by TomJones123

See, now we have turned not to Cincinnati and the Catholic Church, but religious discussion in it's own right. Which is fine, except there is a separate forum for that.

I agree and should apologize. The relativity of the Catholic Church to Cincinnati is not the religious aspect of the church but the external influences it exerts on public life such as the schools, etc. I am sorry for deviating off of the topic. It is a good reminder why discusion of religion never goes as planned.

[green_mariner]

Influence of the Catholic Church in Cincinnati, well, I could think of one. There are 23 Roman Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. There are 115 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati total, making it the 8th largest Catholic school system in the USA. Over 43,000 students attend Catholic high schools.

FWIW, Ken Griffey Jr went to Archbishop Moeller High School. John Boehner also went there.

[kjbrill]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Influence of the Catholic Church in Cincinnati, well, I could think of one. There are 23 Roman Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. There are 115 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati total, making it the 8th largest Catholic school system in the USA. Over 43,000 students attend Catholic high schools.

FWIW, Ken Griffey Jr went to Archbishop Moeller High School. John Boehner also went there.

Those are the kind of statistics which relate to the influence of the Catholic church in Cincinnati. Thank you for your posting.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

Those are the kind of statistics which relate to the influence of the Catholic church in Cincinnati. Thank you for your posting.

You're welcome. As a Catholic, I felt it was fitting that I should look it up. Also, I get kind of giddy knowing Ken Griffey Jr(my favorite baseball player) went to Moeller High School. Was he a Catholic? I don't know. All I know is that I might have done better at a Catholic school than the public school system.

I like to think of Cincinnati as "Rome of the West" because of its location on a river, its hills, Italianate architecture, and its very large Catholic population, influenced by German, Irish,and Italian immigration. Cincinnati itself was named after a Roman political leader, Cincinnatus. The Catholic influence is especially a reason I like thinking of it that way.

Other Catholic influences in Cincinnati: The first German Catholic newspaper in the USA was founded in Cincinnati, Der Wahrheitsfreund. It is defunct now. However, its sister paper, The Catholic Telegraph, lives on today.
Der Wahrheitsfreund - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Catholic Telegraph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are 4 Catholic radio stations for the Archdioceses. There are two more(one in Columbus,OH and Ft. Wayne,IN) that can reach the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

[kjbrill]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

You're welcome. As a Catholic, I felt it was fitting that I should look it up. Also, I get kind of giddy knowing Ken Griffey Jr(my favorite baseball player) went to Moeller High School. Was he a Catholic? I don't know. All I know is that I might have done better at a Catholic school than the public school system.

So did Barry Larkin, one of my favorite Reds.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by kjbrill

So did Barry Larkin, one of my favorite Reds.

Very true.

[green_mariner]

I don't remember if this was Cincinnati or Cleveland, but I've heard that on Fridays at baseball games, they would serve hot dogs without the hot dog in it, using only mustard in the bun, no meat. I know that this goes back to meatless Fridays. Another Catholic influence.

[kjbrill]

Dave Frisch, Jewish, gave the Catholics credit for helping kick off his Big Boy chain due to the huge volume of Fish Sandwiches they sold on Friday, the only day the fish outsold the hamburgers.

And another sport great, Roger Staubach played at Purcell when it was still all-boys. He is the last military academy, Navy, to win a Heisman trophy.