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Originally Posted by chachacha
just some statistics which show how the catholic church saves the fed govt millions....it educates in the US alone, 2.6 million students every day, at a cost to parents and parishes of ten billion dollars a year...if these students went to public schools, it would cost the taxpayers 18 billion a year! in secondary education the church supports 230 colleges and universities, with 700,000 students of all religions going on to top careers which benefit our society. in health care, the non-profit catholic hospitals in this country (637 of them) provide the health care for one in five american patients every day... these statistics come from a new book, Rediscover Catholicism, which seeks to remind battered catholics of the wonderful things our church does for not only the united states but on a global scale for many millions of people.... so don't begrudge a tax exemption to an institution which provides much more and more efficiently than a government bureaucracy can!
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chachacha: spot on. I find it interesting that some protest posters neglected to add other institutions schools, universities scouts, etc etc with their molester attacks on the Catholic Church alone. I agree that the Catholic Church was wrong but with the number of other enities and parents, etc, with whom we place trust engaged in this vile act it is clear that our society is doing a horrible job of protecting our young.
Secondily despite these criticisms I also find it interesting that parents if given the chance for school vouchers scamble for relgious schools. Perhaps it is to escape a decaying public school system that rather spend time for a "Day of Silence" to support the gay community rather than teaching basic writing reading and arithmetic.
I view myself as a nominal catholic however I also view myself as trying to be fair in my assesments and not containing my emotions when dealing with issues.
One final point I did a lot of employment recruiting in my day and it became clear that my counterparts and I recognized the same statistic. Most students who had attended catholic high schools by far went on to college and by the way the better colleges and universities in the country and that their scholastic standings were exemplary.