Posted on 02/20/2015 1:34:03 PM PST by marshmallow
A group of California lawmakers asked Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco to remove "morality clauses" from a proposed contract for teachers in high schools under his jurisdiction, reported the Los Angeles Times.
The new language in the contracts direct teachers in four archdiocesan high schools to avoid public statements or actions that oppose Church teaching on contraception, pre-marital sex or homosexual relationships. My story on the proposed change in contract language is here.
In their letter to the archbishop, the California lawmakers argued that the morality clauses "conflict with settled areas of law and foment a discriminatory environment in the communities we serve."
Specifically, the lawmakers argue that the archdiocese should not designate all teachers within the schools as "ministers." This designation, they charge, will lead to the violation of the teachers' civil rights, because the so-called "ministerial exception" permits church-affiliated institutions broad rights to address employee issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
He should tell them to sod off.
In appropriately episcopal language ...
How many more examples do decent people need? The government is our enemy.
Excuse me? Since when do they get a say?
Goodbye Catholic schools.
Schools have a right to make sure their instructors are instructing what they are instructed to instruct and to set and example the institution can stand behind.
After all public school make sure all their instructors are communists don’t they?
Aren’t homo-activists always telling us that they won’t interfere with religion?
I guess that was lie number 978,325.
I talked to him for 30 minutes one time......he is a holy no nonsense kind of man.
Folks should all read Jeremiah chapter 2 to see what God thinks of this state of affairs of which this is just a sampling. In verse 22 there is the use of the word ‘iniquity’ as opposed to using the word ‘sin’. As has often explained to me, there is a difference….. Iniquity is the root, sin is the fruit. Jeremiah 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
That is certainly the case here in north Jersey; the schools are closing and being sold/rented (usually to public school districts - same kids, but a secular education).
Very short-sighted to close them; they have written off the next generation of Catholics, and are now hoping they can transfer a new bunch from south of the border. In my experience, these newcomers aren’t here to contribute - either to a tax base or a parish.
Saint Paul was trying (successfully as it would turn out) to argue against Biblical circumcision. Needless to say, he met with a lot of objections since the Scriptures were quite clear on the subject. Paul got a bit exasperated with it all and said he hoped his opponents on this subject would experience a slip of their knives,
....” I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!” (Galatians 5:12, NIV makes it clearest of the popular translations)
If this sentiment was good enough for Saint Paul to express, its good enough for us...as regards, here, the Legislators who are trying to boss the ArchBishop around on matters of Church faith and administration.
The way I learned it was that sin = hamartia, “missing the mark.” Wrong but you don’t even it’s wrong, like marrying your mother.
Iniquity is wrong that you know is wrong but do it anyway.
That’s true - they’ve sold out to the Regressives.
Cordileone (literally, Heart of a Lion) is one of the few remaining exception. And with this Pope in charge he won’t be around long.
I don’t think that I can agree with this…. first of all, hamartia has a few definitions but most commonly, it’s defined as a ‘flaw in one’s character’. Somehow I don’t think this is synonymous with sin which is a ‘willful or deliberate violation of a Godly principle or to put it another way, direct transgression that runs counter to how God wants us to live our lives’. I think that sin can be considered to be the direct action while iniquity was the depraved thinking that lead up to that action. Let’s take an obvious example…. The act of murder is an obvious and direct violation against God’s law for how we are to live. Jealousy and covetousness might have been the iniquity that caused on to commit that murder. Hence…. Sin is the fruit but iniquity is the root. Titus 2:14 says this….. “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” In other words, we can be thankful that God not only can cleanse us from our sins, He can take away the depraved thinking that lead us to commit those sins….. a purifying of the mind. This is also the thought in Romans 12:2 “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Strangely enough throughout the Greek New Testament (the original) the word for sin is hamartia. In fact I could not find an instance of the word sin that wasn’t translated by hamartia or a related verb or adjective.
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