How "Catholic" is Georgetown?

Youdon_tsay
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:55:53 +0000

OP, Georgetown is top of my son’s list. When we visited over spring break, the level of religious presence/commitment was one of the things I was worried about because we are not into organized religion. Those concerns were assuaged. Crucifixes weren’t everywhere you went, and our guide said she fulfilled her theology requirement with a religions of the world kind of class but that there are TONS of other classes from which to choose. The day we left was the day the new pope was named so the Jesuits were riding a wave of positive press.

And as a final piece of evidence I offer my sister’s disdain of the place. She’s a hyper-conservative Catholic (except when she doesn’t want to be), and she refuses to even congratulate ds on his acceptance because of its “liberalness.” That was enough for me; the school must be doing something right! ;)