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High schools prepare for in-person graduations
Some Chicago-area Catholic high schools are renting professional sports venues for graduation this year, and others will use their own outdoor fields. Others are carefully planning how to arrange the graduates in indoor spaces, often with the ceremony livestreamed to family members elsewhere.
Planning for graduation ceremonies
“Pomp and Circumstance” will not be playing this May for graduates of area Catholic high schools and colleges, all of which have had to cancel or postpone plans for graduation ceremonies and other traditional end-of-year events.
Stemming the exodus: College graduates and the church
Close to half a million Catholics in the United States have just graduated from college, and almost as soon as they did their participation in the church plummeted.
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