When asked about the parents' concern that there was a lack of communication, Lodes [David Lodes, superintendent of the archdiocesan schools office] said Fr. Augustine held all the required meetings.
Therese Nitka, president of the St. Luke home and school committee, raised the issue of lack of communication in a letter to the parish's Faith in Our Future campaign leaders. That Archdiocesan capital campaign's mission is "To strengthen Catholic education and faith formation for the future of the Church." The article doesn't quote anyone from the parish or archdiocese on what to make of this school closing in the midst of that campaign.
The newsletter message from the school committee had said that school endowment funds were supplementing the parish subsidy for the school. The school endowment will presumably now be applied to other purposes, a sore point to a commenter to this earlier post.
[Enrollment down, costs up; St. Luke School closes,
by Tracy Rusch, Milwaukee Catholic Herald, June 25, 2009]
This is just another example, as if we ever really needed one, that there is not ONE person in the whole administration of the Archdiocese who knows what he is doing!
ReplyDeleteIt would take a book to explain why I would not give a cent to the "Forward in Faith" Campaign, but this is just an example of their double speak.