Jesus isn't letting everyone into Heaven either. Why should his schools be any different?

Christianity is about "Believe this or suffer (eternal death / Hell / punishment of some kind)."

Jesus says that he'll ultimately tell some collection of people to fuck off:

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Since I'm banking on a management position in Hell after I die.

I walk right up to God, look him in the eye, and tell him I was wrong

That’s cultural.

Not everybody subscribes to your version of Catholicism.

Just sayin’.

Pretty sure that Catholic Jesus is still doing this:

https://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe

What We Believe

[...]
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
[...]

Jesus certainly believed in Hell and spoke about it on several occasions.

And, more to the point, it is certainly up to this school to decide which sort of Catholics they want to see in it, and what "version" of Catholicism they want to apply to how they run it.

You want to enforce your own fundamentalism on this family.

Need I remind you that this is the Catholic group?

I'm an atheist.

This schools wants to enforce its religious beliefs, and since it is a religious school, they have every right to do so.

But, unlike you, I’m not a fundamentalist.

My wife comes from a Catholic culture, going back centuries.

I never understand the outrage over "Religious School Behaves Consistently With Being Religious School".

What is hypocritical or surprising about that?

People send their children to these schools so that their precious children need not come into contact with unbelievers.

What is so hard to grasp about that?

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If you don't believe you don't belong. Send son to a school that reflects your views.
If you join a club and break their rules you get booted out. Churches are clubs.

Send their kids to Catholic schools for the sole purpose not of religious education but to keep them away from the public school riffraff.

Back in the day, some protestant parents would send their kids to the local Catholic School because
it was excellent and the kids graduating from there got good college scholarships.

But the parents didn't fight with the school. They kept a low profile.

We had many non Catholic kids in my class. Parents definitely were other religions or none. My school never would have kicked out any student for this reason. Ever! This is just a dumb principal.

He came in guns blazing, banning books and dissent as well.

https://news.yahoo.com/prayerful-consideration-kc-area-catholic-100800306.html

The excerpt does not specify the teachings/differences.

Might be pro-choice which many Catholics support and almost all of them are still allowed Holy Communion.

… with a long history and about 1.3 billion members worldwide.

I’m shocked at some of the narrow-minded and bigoted responses to this article on a supposedly Democratic website (in the Catholic group, of all places).

As Democrats, we should all be supporting this family, regardless of our cultures and religions.

If someone gets kicked out of the local country club because the club requires jackets in the dining room and someone is not wearing a jacket in the dining room, why is that a concern of mine?

This family is paying cash money to an organization which puts a lot of effort into fighting against the rights of other people, and paying settlements for child molesters. I guess those other people and victims don't matter, but I don't support that organization.

I can think for myself.

We all choose sides.

We’re just choosing different sides, that’s all.

I’m with the family, and you’re with McCaffery.

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I don't think your post violates the rules; however, I did want to make you aware of our rules. Have a good day.

because her parents had gotten divorced and she was being raised by a single mother...

Never mind my mother has been baptised and was nominally Catholic, because her father was Catholic, and my grandmother was trying to honor and continue that by her choice of schools, despite being a rather irreligious nominally Methodist herself.

How dare my grandmother divorce her abusive alcoholic adulterous Catholic husband and raise two kids on her own by working three jobs with just a high school education? No Catholic school for your kids!

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While I appreciate your POV and the story, this is attracting comments which violate the rules of our safe haven group. They are as follows:

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Again, I appreciate the story.