Boys’ School Affiliated With Catholic Group Draws Conservatives in Washington

[Newsjock]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/us/the-heights-a-catholic-school-draws-beltway-conservatives.html

... Mr. Cardenas teaches at The Heights School, a suburban Washington boys’ school affiliated with Opus Dei, the Catholic organization of which he is a member. By the standards of more famous Washington private schools, like Sidwell Friends or Georgetown Preparatory, The Heights is poor, little known and young — it was founded in 1969. But since then it has become the popular school for a small clique of Washingtonians: conservative Catholics.

Although he has made being a home-schooling dad part of his identity, the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has sent two sons to The Heights. The school, for boys in grades 3-12, has also educated the sons of the Republican senators Mel Martinez and Chuck Hagel; the former F.B.I. director Louis J. Freeh; Maggie Gallagher, founder of the National Organization for Marriage; and Kate O’Beirne, an editor at National Review.

Conservative Catholics are drawn to The Heights for its single-sex community, in which the faculty is male, and for its fidelity to Catholic teaching. More than that, parents say, they are glad to have found a community of like-minded families. Here they find a respect for church teachings that is absent even from most parish churches, where many communicants openly disagree with the pope on contraception, abortion and other topics.

... Mr. Kilner and Ms. Maher are both members of Opus Dei, the organization that provides “spiritual formation” to The Heights. Opus Dei is known to millions of readers of “The Da Vinci Code,” which presents a sensational and quite sinister portrait of the group. In real life, Opus Dei, which was founded in Spain in 1928 and claims 90,000 members, supports charities and advises schools, including six in the United States.

[TalkingDog]

1. Look... there's no need for throwing straight lines at us.

n/t

[dflprincess]

2. "..Conservative Catholics are drawn to The Heights for its single-sex community, in which the

faculty is male.." What could possibly go wrong at a school like this?

I'll bet the diocese's lawyers break into cold sweats when they think of this school.

[DCKit]

3. What y'all said^.

The joke is in the title.