http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../28442069/
They have lost their stranglehold on education. If they can't get them young they won't get them.
As the Jesuit motto used to be: 'Give me the child for his first seven years, and I'll give you the man.'
Granted, given the pedo-priest scandal that sounds pretty creepy now.
Quote:In the early 1960s, there were more than 5.2 million students in nearly 13,000 Catholic schools in the U.S., according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Today, that number is down to 1.9 million students.
They have lost their stranglehold on education. If they can't get them young they won't get them.
As the Jesuit motto used to be: 'Give me the child for his first seven years, and I'll give you the man.'
Granted, given the pedo-priest scandal that sounds pretty creepy now.