Philadelphia Catholic Outsider

A commenter asked a question after the "Why Does St. Joachim Have To Go?" post. I wrote an answer, but couldn't get it to a...

Another parish appeals its closing. A letter to the archbishop is here.  They have started a blog here.   This  is their Facebook page.

I started thinking about how this problem should be solved, and started to write about that, but never actually did, instead I wrote about ...

I've been on record on this for a while. FutureChurch and the Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Development (the people who...

So we know what the "pastoral planners" say about Church disputes. Try to win. If you don't, do what you want and just keep c...

The closing of St. Joachim is a very difficult thing. It's tough to write about. It's tough to think about. I wish the problem wou...

Last night at the Nut Hut Saloon.

I haven't been writing about my topic because I find it so depressing. Good things are being destroyed by people with a bad ideology. ...

Here's a picture that pretty much says everything I'm trying to say with this blog. Update:  A comment on this picture fr...

Here's a sad fact I just discovered. The organization that the Catholic planning bureaucrats all belong to is the Conference for Pastor...

The employees of the archdiocese who are behind this campaign do not believe that they are failing at running a Catholic school system. Th...

From 1852 to 1860 St. John Neumann was the bishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia and worked tirelessly to open Catholic schools.  In...

The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. ...

I've had complaints that my posts are too wordy, but pointing out the planners' values isn't easy. This post, though, won...

One of the saint's biographers, Father W. Frean, C.SS.R., noted that the “results which attended Neumann’s efforts were not attained w...

Now that the crisis is over for most schools I was hoping that some reporting and commentary would appear in the papers that would let peo...