Should I rush/pledge at mizzou?

[sunnyday]

Um, I would interpret her as saying that the teachers, since they aren't nuns or people without degrees, consist of people that have gone through college, gotten their teaching degree, and are now teaching. It just happens to be at a Catholic school rather than a public school. No, it is not a self-study program.

Sorry for the confusion. I'm a lifelong Catholic and we use the term "lay person" to mean anyone who is non-clergy. It has nothing to do with obtaining a degree. So a layperson, to me, would mean someone who was not a nun, etc, regardless of their degree status. A college-educated trained teacher who was not a nun would still be called a lay person. So I was confused by who exactly that left. Apparently, this Catholic high school uses the term "lay person" a bit differently than the parish I've been part of for 20 years. Sorry about that!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by sunnyday

Sorry for the confusion. I'm a lifelong Catholic and we use the term "lay person" to mean anyone who is non-clergy. It has nothing to do with obtaining a degree. So a layperson, to me, would mean someone who was not a nun, etc, regardless of their degree status.

Except, of course, that a nun is not clergy either; clergy = bishop, priest or deacon.

I think the group of people you're trying to describe would be lay (not clergy) and non-religious (not members of a religious order of monks, friars, nuns or sisters. Clergy can be religious or secular.)

[sunnyday]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Except, of course, that a nun is not clergy either; clergy = bishop, priest or deacon.

I think the group of people you're trying to describe would be lay (not clergy) and non-religious (not members of a religious order of monks, friars, nuns or sisters. Clergy can be religious or secular.)

Goodness, yes. Sorry again. That's what I meant. But either way, if someone said that there were no nuns and no lay people teaching in a school here, we (at my parish, at least) would not know who was left, really.