I just wanted to throw this up as a forum for people to have some general discussion on the high school and the possible closing.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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My wife and I are both alumni. As a Protestant, I feel that I might have not as much right to comment, but I am distrubed that this was left until it reaches a critical point. This parish made a commitment with Fr. Irwin over fifty years ago to provide Catholic education to this community. Given the relative size and wealth of this parish, I cannot imagine that this is a purely financial issue. We have been through this before when the Diocese wanted to close the school twenty years ago. I would be interested to know how this closure can be justified on financial grounds, when a new edifice (with lifesize statues of the saints) was just built, your priest lives in a rectory larger than many of his parishioners' homes and before this did not reside in the old rectory but rather the Shireton Condominums and tools around town in a Lexus. I feel that this parish's priorities were misplaced. Perhaps, the original church should have been retained(instead of becoming a victim of the real estate bubble) and the funds expended should have been diverted to the school and updating its facilities and shoring up its balance sheet. New facilities would only help to attract more students to the school. Further, why have none of the more affluent parishioners been tapped and an endowment established to offset the operating costs of the school?
Did it ever occur to you that this decision is not really up to the parish priest. Do you think that he has no one to answer to or telling him what he has to do. He works for a big corporation "The Catholic Church". It is probably not his choice but has to take the criticism and all the other crap. As far as where he lives and what he drives is no one's business! They do have money from other sources than the church, like family inheritance, investing their salary ect. Come on everyone has been hurt this past year financially. The Catholic schools get no help from the gov. It is all up to us. So think before you crucify the parish priest.
I think we all need to face the fact that Father Coine has to go.
Does Father Coine realize that if he only stood up and said "I want the school open and I need your help" That we all would step up and help him create a new high school. He needs to lead, not lecture us. He has not stepped foot in the high school since his announcement that the school was closing. I have serious questions about his mental stability. He is a bully.
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