Posted on 06/17/2022 4:32:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Nativity School of Worcester can no longer call itself Catholic after flying the gay pride and Black Lives Matter flags, according to a bishop’s decree.
The flags were flown directly under the American flag on the same pole.
The symbols are “inconsistent with Catholic teaching,” according to Bishop Robert J. McManus of the Diocese of Worcester.
Explaining his reasoning, McManus said “it is my contention that the ‘Gay Pride’ flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle.”
When writing of the Black Lives Matter flag, he differentiated between the statement “black lives matter” — which he styled in lower case letters — and the Black Lives Matter movement.
“The Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and the Church certainly stands unequivocally behind the phrase ‘black lives matter’ and strongly affirms that all lives matter,” he wrote. “However, the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has co-opted the phrase and promotes a platform that directly contradicts Catholic social teaching on the importance and role of the nuclear family and seeks to disrupt the family structure in clear opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church.”
In April, McManus issued a warning about the flags as well, and said of the Black Lives Matter flag that is has “been coopted by some factions which also instill broad-brush distrust of police and those entrusted with enforcing our laws. We do not teach that in our schools.”
After the warning, however, the school continued to fly the flags.
In a statement, the school’s president Thomas McKenney said “though any symbol or flag can be co-opted by political groups or organizations, flying our flags is not an endorsement of any organization or ideology, they fly in support of marginalized people.”
He also said he intends on appealing the decision to...
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Finally! We need to see more brave bishops like him!
No worries. Frankie will let them fly the flags and still claim that they’re Catholic.
Going through a ton of bad stuff right now both privately and with all that’s going on in the world. It occurred to me that during these times, the church always accepts us. But what happens when the church is just as bad as everything else? I’m despondent by what’s happened to our church. I feel like I have no refuge with people. Thank God for prayer. Pray for our churches to return to Christ like what this brave bishop has done.
He gets it.
Pope frank gonna intervene?
I am sure the pope will fix this asap
smh
YES!!!!!! MORE!!!!!!
I’m sure the Bishop’s leftist superiors will have relieved and defrocked.
And if the funding goes away….so does the school. It’s probably on parish property.
So, yeah…good for the Bishop.
What the school may be hanging it's hat on, however, is the claim to be "under the Jesuit tradition." If it is a Jesuit financed and run school, he can probably legally forbid them from calling themselves "Catholic" in his diocese, but the Jesuits have control over administration and probably at least some of the financing. This is why, for example, the Jesuit-run University of Notre Dame in Indiana gets away with the shenanigans they do.
I have no faith in the church after they abused so many children and hid it.
I was brought up Catholic but can Never forgive a church for doing such a horrendous thing as hiding Priest that raped children.
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