{"id":2900,"date":"2012-01-23T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2012-01-23T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:56:25","slug":"tv-program-explores-decline-in-catholicism-and-catholic-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/tv-program-explores-decline-in-catholicism-and-catholic-schools","title":{"rendered":"TV Program Explores Decline in Catholicism and Catholic Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2905\" title=\"itsyourcall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/itsyourcall-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/itsyourcall-300x275.png 300w, http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/itsyourcall.png 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/>Are Catholic schools closing because Catholicism is in decline, or is Catholicism in decline because Catholic schools are closing? That&#8217;s just one of the questions Lynn Doyle asks of her guests in this 24-minute program. She begins her show with guest Jerry Davis, one of the members of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Blue Ribbon Commission on Catholic schools, and ends it with a panel that includes Bob McCarty, executive director at the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry. Most provocative soundbyte? &#8220;Catholics have contracepted and aborted themselves into a decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35394695?portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"451\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do you think is responsible for the decline? And how do Catholic schools and dioceses respond to it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Catholic schools closing because Catholicism is in decline, or is Catholicism in decline because Catholic schools are closing? That&#8217;s just one of the questions Lynn Doyle asks of her guests in this 24-minute program. She begins her show with guest Jerry Davis, one of the members of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Blue Ribbon Commission &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/tv-program-explores-decline-in-catholicism-and-catholic-schools\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TV Program Explores Decline in Catholicism and Catholic Schools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-schools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-KM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2595,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/new-article-explores-the-state-of-catholic-schools","url_meta":{"origin":2900,"position":0},"title":"New Article Explores the State of Catholic Schools","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"June 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The Church worldwide is in the midst of a Catholic education boom,\" writes Jeff Ziegler in a new article from The Catholic World Report. 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