A parent with two children at the soon-to-be-closed South City Catholic Academy is taking his case to the Vatican.
In January, Andrew Magdy and many other SCCA parents were outraged when the Archdiocese of St. Louis announced it would be closing the school in the city’s North Hampton neighborhood. The announcement stunned parents, who thought that the school’s enrollment was healthy enough to stave off closure. The timing also meant that it was too late in the academic year for parents to try to get their children into the St. Louis Public Schools’ magnet programs.
Within a week of the announced closure, Magdy, a restructuring attorney, contested the Archdiocese’s move by sending them a “Formal Request For Revocation Or Amendment Of Administrative Decree,” which is essentially the equivalent of a lawsuit, only under canon law, which governs the Catholic church…