Do catholic private schools try to persuade non-catholics to beome catholic or just educate them on the..?

Question

religion?

Answer 1

I go to catholic school and some kids are not christian. At the school I go at least, they are not targeted by the staff and bothered about converting. If that did happen, the staff could get in trouble.

That's only where I go though. To be honest I don't know about other places. I honestly doubt that it would be different though.

Answer 2

I went to a Catholic School. They teach religion and you had to go to Mass. It was not shoved down our throats, just taught like Math or English. There were plenty of non-catholics that attended the school I went to and we only knew it because they chose to share it with us.

Answer 3

Check the school you are considering. Ask the administration their policy on converting new students who are not members of their church.

My guess is a Catholic parochial school will be more structured, and more tolerant, than some straight-laced fundamentalist school, simply because the Catholic church has so many layers of supervision built into it. The management has to answer to someone besides itself. An independent church school without any outside structure can be as broad-or narrow-minded as its leadership desires.

My grandchildren attended an Episcopal Church school for several years. Students were expected to attend Chapel and there was religious education, but it was not heavy handed. There were non-Episcopalians who attended school there, but they were not ostracized.

Answer 4

They will think you are evil if you do not share their beliefs... I know.. I went to a "Christian Academy" just to find out they aren't state credited or something. Waste of $$$$

Answer 5

It really depends on the school and which church sponsors them. Some Catholic schools will not even accept students until they become part of the Catholic Church and some do have a tendency to want to try to "convert" their students to Catholicism but that kind of thing doesn't just just happen in Catholic schools, some schools of other faiths tend to do  the same thing. But many of them, Catholic and Protestant do have respect for all faiths. They do however, expect students to follow their rules at school as far as behavior, dress codes, etc, and often have requirements about classes on religion and spirituality that students have to take to attend school there.