Catholic School Reflection

To be quite honest, majority of my education on Catholicism took place during high school, which was also catholic. Every semester we were required to take classes on topics such as the history of the church, classes that broke down the different parts of the mass, etc. At Loras I have only taken one class, The Religious Imagination, where we did talk about the Catholic faith and identity but not to the extent I was taught in high school. Again, this just might be due to the volume and quantity of catholic classes I took in high school. However, Honors Service Learning has served to teach me new elements of the Catholic faith and created much discussion that has furthered my own Catholic faith and identity. I have found the discussions on values and what it means to live the good life to be awesome in terms of making me think what it means to live a good life, and a good life that is tied into Catholicism.
Besides the obvious differences between catholic and noncatholic college education experiences such as mandatory catholic identity classes, etc., I actually do not think there is too big of a difference between the two. Yes, there is an abundance of more opportunities to be involved in Catholic experiences such as Campus ministry, more religious groups, etc. but I dont think the different is too massive. Again, my whole life I have only been to Catholic schools (exempting one year) and so I do not know the other way. I try to keep away from arguments on religion, so I can't truly say I have ever had an in-depth argument on religion. However, if I were to, I feel like knowing more on Dorothy Day and the worker movement would have been beneficial.