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Article: Diocese offers tuition-free education.(Wichita, Kansas)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 26, 2004
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While many families struggle to pay the rising cost of sending their children to Catholic schools, parishioners in one U.S. diocese don't worry about tuition--including the high cost of tuition for Catholic high schools.
The children of active parishioners in the Wichita diocese attend Catholic schools tuition-free.
A model of stewardship was initiated in Wichita diocese-wide in 1985 by Bishop Eugene Gerber (see "Wichita bishop took 'leap of faith' for stewardship." Parishioners embraced that model, which called for them to give generously of their time and their talents and to give as high a percentage of their income to the church as they could. The ...