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The school’s total enrollment this semester numbered 226 students. About three-fifths of them are training to be members of the clergy—diocesan priests, members of Catholic orders and Episcopal ministers. The remainder are lay students, Stachniewicz said.
The school will likely move into St. William’s Hall in Brighton, which BC recently purchased from the Catholic Archdiocese. Dunn wrote in an e-mail that BC is confident it will win approval from the City of Boston for using the building for academic space.
BC is the oldest Jesuit university in the country, and Dunn said that a merger with Weston would “help to make Boston College the center of Catholic intellectual thought in the United States.”
Residents of the low-income apartments are upset that the owners of the complex—a Catholic church, a Protestant church, and a synagogue—have refused to give tenants a seat at the negotiating table, they said at a meeting sponsored by the Charlesview Residents Organization.
But blaming Kerry avoids the real dilemma. The Democrats have lost a good slice of less educated, less wealthy white Protestant and Catholic voters. Their economic issues are not nearly as compelling as the Republicans' religious appeal. There is a good reason for that, and it has to do, oddly...