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- Priests and Archbishop Ultimately Make the School Decisions
- St. Dominic School Restricted Funds Could Be Moved to New Legal Entity
- Archbishop Dissolves Parish Council Partially Due to Opposition to Close St. Dominic School
- School Decision NOT As Previously Announced
- Parish Council Dissolved!??
- Handouts from September 12, 2011 Meeting
- Important Meeting for all Parishioners to be held at Blue Harbor Conference Center on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:30pm
- Status of School Closing and Trustee Position
- Temporary Priest Makes Permanent Decision
- Independent Corporation: Real or Smokescreen?
- Consolidation Doesn’t Work When Forced
- How Did This Get Started?
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Priests and Archbishop Ultimately Make the School Decisions
At a meeting held at St. Dominic Parish on October 4th, 2011 for St. Dominic, Holy Name and St. Clement parishes, it was clarified that the decision to close both St. Dominic and Holy Family schools and to open one … Continue reading
St. Dominic School Restricted Funds Could Be Moved to New Legal Entity
Per the approved and distributed Finance Committee Meeting Minutes from the August 17th, 2011 meeting, the new school committees will be examining St. Dominic School restricted funds to determine whether they can be used at the new school after St. … Continue reading
School Decision NOT As Previously Announced
The following email was sent by Kathleen Cepalka which indicates that the decision to have one school at the current Holy Family School site is no longer “the decision” but apparently was “an assumption”. (See the March 1, 2011 letter from Fr. … Continue reading
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Handouts from September 12, 2011 Meeting
Thank you to the approximately 200 people who attended tonight’s meeting. Your support of St. Dominic School and Parish was communicated loud and clear. It is important that we move forward in a unified and Christian manner. There were many … Continue reading
Important Meeting for all Parishioners to be held at Blue Harbor Conference Center on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:30pm
A group of lay leaders at St. Dominic Parish requested a meeting to be held in our Parish Activity Center on September 12, 2011. The Archdiocese policies state that open meetings are to be held for the purpose of presenting the recommendations … Continue reading
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Temporary Priest Makes Permanent Decision
Fr. John Radetski is leaving St. Dominic Parish in June. His decision is due in part to negative experiences at our parish as he outlines in his bulletin article the weekend after his announcement. In fact you are encouraged to read … Continue reading
Independent Corporation: Real or Smokescreen?
In a real “independent corporation”, the Board of Directors would vote regarding large corporate decisions. I would think that closing a school would require such a vote. Yet our Parish Trustees, who are officers of the “independent corporation” did not … Continue reading
Consolidation Doesn’t Work When Forced
How many times did we hear Fr. Radetski say that consolidation just doesn’t work if it is forced? How many times did he say it needs to be voluntary? How many stories did we listen to about the problems that … Continue reading
How Did This Get Started?
Many people have received misinformation which has led them to believe that this consolidation is being pursued under the direction of the Archdiocese. This is untrue. Fr. Jim Connell and Fr. John Radetski requested the Archdiocese to perform a study … Continue reading