What the Charlotte Controversy Reveals About the Acceptance of Catholic Teaching

Catholic Culture ^ | 5/3/14 | Dr. Jeff Mirus

[marshmallow]

News coverage is now available for the resolution of complaints about Sister Jane Dominic Laurel’s controversial presentation at a Catholic high school in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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As far as I have been able to determine from the limited correspondence I received from some of those who objected to Sr. Jane Dominic’s presentation, the tactic chosen for the formal complaint was to insist that nobody was questioning Church teaching. Rather, the formal complaint was against the presentation of the alleged familial consequences of ignoring Church teaching. Such practical data was referred to in a variety of ways, such as “scare tactics” and “hateful”.

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But it is just here that we recognize a more subtle and also much deeper problem. If you read the news report, you will see that tempers were very high over this problem of “data”, and that those who thought the whole presentation was just fine were shouted down. What this means is that there were many people professing to accept Church teaching (or at least choosing not to object to its presentation in a Catholic school) who nonetheless became extremely upset because the actual demonstrable practical consequences of living in opposition to Church teaching were enumerated.

We have slipped here into a pattern all too common in Catholic life today: The idea that the Church may teach something (yeah, yeah) but it really doesn’t matter. People can do what they deem best, and their way for them will be as good as anything. This attitude is false, and Sister Jane Dominic committed the cardinal sin of demonstrating its falsity. In point of fact, “their way for them” will not be as good as anything. It will not only be spiritually deadening, but also have disastrous concrete, practical consequences, including negative impacts on others which.......

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Could anyone conceivably see this happening in an evangelical protestant private school?

Case in point.

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***Could anyone conceivably see this happening in an evangelical protestant private school?***

If a student at my daughter's school were to come out a very well defined process of discipline would be implemented.

The child's pastor would be involved with the intent of restoring the child. If discipline were to fail the child would be removed from the school.

[Jeff Chandler]

The sheep are ignorant not of their own accord, but because the shepherds have failed to feed the sheep.

[madameguinot]

Thanks for posting this. I am not Catholic but a Christian, and have a deep respect for the Catholic Church.

I have worked at Catholic elementary schools for several years, and am now at a Benedictine college.

The college is implementing the principles of Eboo Patel, who is the founder of the Interfaith Youth Core and is a member of a White House faith initiative.

When I read who this guy is, I was shocked that a Catholic university should be not just airing his views, but actually implementing his principles that suggest basically all religions are valid...to the extent that they are tolerant of a progressive agenda.
Patel was raised Muslim but as he advocates for the homosexual agenda is not true to his own faith.
It seems Satan is disguising himself as ‘tolerance’ and making inroads into Catholic institutions.