Catholics wrestle with teachings as gay employees dismissed

KSL.com ^ | Aug 9, 2015 | MARYCLAIRE DALE

[Mrs. Don-o]

Not just "employee" --- Director of Religious Education.

Thank you, Waldron Mercy, for not re-hiring her. Thank you, Archbishop Chaput, very, very much.

[kaehurowing]

Homosexuality is evil. It will try to take over every church if people are not vigilant.

[freedomfiter2]

It doesn’t sound like they are wrestling. The teacher should have been fired the day the school learned that she was gay. Same thing if she were a hetero fornicator.

[Tax-chick]

No journalistic bias there at all, no sirree.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If the Pope were Catholic there would be no wrestling going on.

[Fungi]

Bingo!

[FlingWingFlyer]

And he has famously parsed centuries of thought on homosexuality into a five-word quip: "Who am I to judge?"

Aren't you supposed to be the Pope? Kind of like the Supreme Court of the Catholic Church? Man up and do your job or let somebody do it who will!

[tbpiper]

"Who am I to judge?"

Doesn't being the "Vicar of Christ" cover this?

[olezip]

Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, wading into the issue amid Winters' case, stressed that Catholic schools are responsible for "teaching and witnessing the Catholic faith in a manner true to Catholic belief," referring to the church's condemnation of homosexual activity. He said the Mercy officials showed "character and common sense" for sticking to church teachings.

Getting rid of people who openly disregard the teachings of the Catholic Church, is a good thing. Women living with women are friends. To mock marriage by formalizing such a relationship is clearly against church teaching.

Why could they not just live together as "friends?" Anything other than that is unrepentant.

[Tax-chick]

more than 50 people have reported losing their jobs at Catholic institutions since 2010 over their sexual orientation or identity

I'm sure they did report that, but they've actually lost their jobs because of their sexual behavior and/or public advocacy.

[lastchance]

Which Catholics are struggling? The Pelosi-bots?

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’m thankful for the vigilant. Apparently the Waldron Mercy admin. knew this from the git-go, but it took an alert parent to blow the whistle.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Absolutely agree.

I'm grateful they did the right thing, quite possibly with pressure from Abp. Chaput. The school is not part of the Diocesan system but rather a [private school run by the Sisters of Mercy --- and thus does not "exactly" "directly" answer to the Abp, although he does have the ultimate authority (which Bishops too rarely use) and if he wanted to, he could revoke their right to call themselves "Catholic," and if push really came to shove, he could oust the Sisters of Mercy.

That would be considered the nuke level of Bishop authority.

[Tax-chick]

Reason number lost-count that we wouldn’t use the Catholic schools even if they were free and conveniently located.

[Mrs. Don-o]

((((Sigh)))))

But Chaput knew this would happen, and didn't flinch.

[Tax-chick]

Abp. Chaput definitely deserves a dozen cookies and a kitten.

It seems as if there’s something about schools that attracts activist homosexuals. You may remember the brief turmoil here in Charlotte a couple of years ago, when one of the Nashville Dominican sisters gave a presentation at the diocesan high school that was insufficiently sensitive toward homosexuality.

I wouldn’t say that it caused those who dislike Bishop Jugis to dislike him any more than they already did. Maybe Abp. Chaput makes the same observation and just shrugs at the wailing and gnashing.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's actually not true. What happens at the Diocesan level is very much the responsibility of the Bishop of Philadelphia or wherever, and not the Bishop of Rome.

I'm not denying a Pope can go a long ways toward setting the tone. In really flagrant cases he can put depose an errant bishop or put him in charge of some little sinecure in Vatican City (like I think it was JP2 did to the former Archbishop Milingo of Lusaka.)

But ordinarily, the bishop's The Man. The Vatican doesn't have surveillance and enforcement systems all around the globe to get into every disputed case.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"And he has famously parsed centuries of thought on homosexuality into a five-word quip: "Who am I to judge?""

[T-Bird45]

The photo verifies it again —

Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24: “Feminism was established so as to permit unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

Judging, yes.