Welcome to the future.
They could still require that non-Catholic teachers teach Catholic doctrine, on pain of being fired. The boss still is able to tell the employees what they have to do.
” it will either force faith-based schools to close their doors to anyone who is not of the same religion”
This is the best path anyway, regardless of this ruling.
“Fundamentally changing America!”
What is the next stop up in the appeals process?
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With Scalia’s demise, Catholic institutions will be exposed to assaults on multiple fronts. The Little Sisters of the poor will be a 4 to 4 vote, remanding the case down the last highest circuit’s ruling which was against the Order. A BHO appointment will make it 5-4. That result, coupled with the article below, make it likely that Catholic institutions will have to either acquiesce to government mandates regarding abortion, marriage etc. or face daily fines that will put them out of business. I suspect many Catholic institutions, such as Georgetown, Holy Cross etc. will give in, may be even embrace the government mandates. This will leave you and I with a choice to either accept compromised Catholic schools or find another alternative. Frankly, I would send my daughters to private secular schools before I would send her to a compromised Catholic school. The compromised schools will do more harm in the long run because they offer the veneer of Respect/Godliness without the integrity. The teaching will come across as if it’s from the Church but it’s not. We will have a Church like they have in China. One that is de facto and one that is de jure.
Fontbonne Academy makes it clear on their website that they accept students from any and all faiths. They also stated on their website that they make hiring decisions without regard to, among other things, sexual orientation. Having dropped the pretense of being a Catholic school they can’t now try to wrap themselves in the mantle of the Church. And having made it clear that homosexuality was not a barrier to employment they can’t suddenly change their mind and say it is. I don’t think this means the end of religious schools and I don’t thing Fontbonne has anyone but themselves to blame for their predicament.
Bake the cake!!!
We had a muslim in our childs Catholic school. She caused a 20 year teacher to be fired because she was “offended” at something he said defending the faith.
Get rid of football, get rid of the inner city scholarships that are need based but always go to needy 6-8” thugs. Stop selling tuition to rich non-Catholics. Cut tuition so large Catholic families can afford to send their kids again. We have friends with a family of 6 sons that have to homeschool because they got only a $200 “large family” break in the over 15,000 tuition this school charges but hey, the basketball team is ranked!
And those stupid Massachusetts Irish Catholic Kennedy Democrats just keep right on voting for them.
What’s surprising is how surprised many of these people are who consistently vote for Democrats.
There’s a difference between students and faculty, which apparently escapes some people.
Here in NJ the state is driving the Catholic Church out of the public sphere using different methods. In healthcare the requirement to treat people in ERs regardless of means to pay, while constantly reducing the reimbursement for said care, has closed hospitals; burdening taxpayers with ridiculously high school taxes has deprived them of the means to afford a Catholic education, so the Catholic schools close.
When people think the Catholic hierarchy is in bed with government because of the money it receives, I don’t see that happening in NJ; the education and healthcare infrastructure built by our Catholic forefathers is disappearing quickly.