Posted on 04/29/2014 6:35:48 PM PDT by marshmallow
Tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of local parishioners, have protested new teacher contracts drawn up by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati that require teachers to live by and publicly affirm the Catholic Church's teaching on homosexual relationships, abortion, premarital sex, and other core doctrines.
Nationally, tens of thousands of people have signed petitions decrying the new contract stipulations.
Last Tuesday, several dozen parishioners protested the contracts, and about 1,000 parishioners have signed a petition demanding the diocese change the language of the contract.
Most opposition to the contract concerns the language of the contract, which requires fidelity to Catholic doctrine. One petition at FaithfulAmerica.com, which has over 21,000 signatures around the nation, attacks the contract for barring teachers from having or supporting homosexual relationships. The "new teacher contract is intrusive, cruel, flies in the face of Pope Francis's tone of welcome and humility," it said.
Another petition, which has over 1,000 mostly local petition signatures, expresses concern about "the potential of teaching staffs...to become a homogeneous group which lacks the diversity that's reflective of our communities," as well as "the future of our Catholic schools and their sustainability based on the restrictive, non-inclusive trend of the Cincinnati Archdiocese and their policies."
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Send your BRATS elsewhere, heretics.
Go to the government schools.
I’m convinced that the world has gone mad, and that the end times are neigh…….
Exactly.It’s their school and they can decide what will be taught.Don’t like it,hit the bricks.
and would they treat this as controversial news if muslim teachers had to sign statements of faith they supported islam’s teachings? seriously.
these are private religious schools and they can hire who they want and require what they want to require. it isn’t shocking they want teachers who believe what the chruch teaches, it is not shocking or outrageous.
I’m not a catholic, but it seems to me that if you want to teach in a catholic school, you should at least tow the line of being like a catholic if not an actual catholic.
I would think that a “morals clause” is enforcable. And isn’t that what we are talking about here?
Just an example of the predicted “great falling away” before the Lord’s return.
I’m a Baptist who sees nothing wrong in the language of the Catholic school teacher contract. If a current teacher or prospective teacher at a parochial school does not adhere to the doctrine of that particular church, then they have no business teaching at a school supported by said church. Period. Let them teach somewhere else.
and folks, sorry,but I 'd just as soon have the same old nuns teaching instead of whatever passes for "diversity" these days....
Thought this was one of yours.
The article claims these signatures belong to people who belong to the church; I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Some sure, but I’ll bet most of the signatures are from public school employees.
If you don’t want your kids to learn in a church environment then don’t spend hundreds of dollars every year to send them to a church school!
Catholics have the burden of actually believing in things...it’d be easier to be any other religion....
re: “the end times are neigh…”
Not being a grammar nazi, but I think you mean “nigh”, not “neigh”. Neigh is often used to imitate the sound horses make.
If these people disagree so strongly with Catholic teachings, why do they remain Catholics? For some, if they are committed Leftists, it probably has to do with controlling an institution and using its power, money, and influence to attain their objectives. In fact, that’s probably been happening for the past 40 years, and its why so many average Catholics today have veered away from Catholic doctrine and towards “progressive” ideas.
So....several dozen out of the population of a diocese?
I am not Catholic but my wife is and our kids go to a Catholic school. I would support this 100%. Some of the things I see going on within the school is very frustrating.
re: “Catholics have the burden of actually believing in things...it’d be easier to be any other religion....”
Every true Christian has the privilege of affirming the truths/doctrines of God in His Word. Jesus said, “not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father”.
In other words, just mouthing the words, “I love God or I love Jesus” or even saying, “I believe in the Lord Jesus”, doesn’t make it. People who deny the Authority of God’s Word, who deny the very doctrines that affirm His divinity, who deny what the Bible clearly defines as sin, and who never acts on that supposed “confession” of faith in Jesus are just frauds, or counterfeit Christians.
All true Christians must teach the entire Gospel - all the complete doctrine/teachings of God - that sin is sin and calling wrong “right” doesn’t make it so.
I’m not sure it’s easier to be another religion, but it’s definitely easier to be “liberal” because they don’t have to stand for anything unpopular - they can be for everything the moral relativist culture says is “ok”.
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