St Mickey's High School - Fewer Catholic High School Students Will Lose Their Faith Due to School Closures - Less Contact With Staff Cited

Report: 10% Fewer Catholic High School Students Will Leave Their Faith Due to Catholic School Closures


St. Mickey's Catholic High School - 10% Fewer Students Leave Faith This Year - COVID Shutdown Credited

A survey of recent-graduating seniors from Catholic high schools from across the City of Boson today revealed some surprising statistics.



According to the survey, only 13% of graduating seniors admitted to being atheists by the end of their senior year of Catholic high school, a 10% reduction from the previous year.

Students practiced Catholic rites at home

Patsy Jenkins, the principal a local Catholic high school, was not happy about the findings, saying that school officials “look forward to better days” when they could "help every student who spends four years in a Catholic high school keep and enjoy their faith in the Teachings of the Church.  We do not want to be turning out any atheists.  But the downward trend is encouraging." 

“For the last couple decades that figure was holding steady.  The forces of evil in the modern world, and the post-modern world, and in consumer capitalism, and late capitalism are pushing our students toward a nihilistic atheism in a small but significant number of cases."

She went on, "But because of our long distance learning and holding classes on Zoom and Google Meetup and Skype, we have a clean slate.  What errors were made by overbearing or hypocritical staff in the past are behind us now.  As Jesus said in the New Testament, "Let the dead bury the dead." 

Jenkins summed up saying that she believed that the drop in numbers were mainly due in part to the Covid-19 lockdowns.


“Without the students here under our supervision, it’s been difficult for some staff to drive them away from Catholicism. Even with limited hours online with them, it’s nearly impossible to know what kind of stuff they’re reading. They could be reading the Jewish Talmud for all we know.  Or all they read is Young Adult fiction.”

(Saint Mickey's Teaching Nuns and Support Staff)

Jenkins also stated that it was imperative now more than ever for parents to get involved in their children’s spiritual education, but to keep things vague.  "More mystery, and less history," she said.  "We don't want the teachings of the church in the past to be overemphasized in the present.  Don't let Grandpa bring in any ideas from before the Vatican Council Reforms of the 1960's.  We don't want any of that Mel Gibson 'Old Time Religion' brand of Catholicism.  The Church has enough problems without those loony tune conspiracy theorists."

One student reported that he found the reading material and videos about Catholic beliefs easier to follow than classroom teachers who seemed to have a lot of distractions and personal agendas.  


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