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<p>Your post was much more of a generalization than the quote you referred to. Catholic schools are of a different sort, in terms of religious instruction, than non-Catholic Christian schools. If you don’t know the difference, don’t post generalizations. There is no indoctrination of non-Catholics in modern Catholic schools. All students are required to attend the same instruction and listen respectfully. There are not required to assent to beliefs, recite, state their own beliefs, or undergo conversion of any kind. They are (as an aspect of respectful attendance) required also to attend (passively) monthly and special-event liturgies that occur during the school day, without having to participate, utter prayers, etc. Jews, Muslims, Baptists, Hindus, Buddhists, Sufis, agnostics, atheists, and more attend modern Catholic schools without being indoctrinated. </p>
<p>There are some non-Catholic religious schools (and formerly, decades-ago, generations ago, Catholic schools as well) in which the level of religious content is more intense, more saturated than at a modern Catholic school. Whether those schools specifically “indoctrinate” is something I have no personal knowledge of and therefore am in no position to make a statement about. However, certainly any setting which features saturation of religiosity (including prayers as well as instruction as well as recitation as well as, potentially, “testifying”) could make a student feel ‘indoctrinated’ merely by the level of immersion and participation.</p>