Obstetrician Carol Egner was dismissed as a religious education teacher after she refused to renounce a letter defending Sister Louise Akers, who supports ordination of women priests.
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Posted on 09/16/2009 10:15:43 AM PDT by NYer
CINCINNATI -- A volunteer religious teacher has been dismissed in Cincinnati after writing a letter to the editor backing a Roman Catholic nun ordered to stop teaching for supporting women priests.
Dr. Carol Egner said she has been told she can longer teach her Old Testament class to sixth-graders at Our Lady of Lourdes parish.
The archbishop of the Cincinnati Archdiocese recently banned a nun, Sister of Charity Louise Akers, from teaching at parishes and institutions after 40 years because she supports the ordination of women as priests. Akers says she refused to renounce her support of women priests as a matter of conscience.
Egner's pastor said his decision is not part of a crackdown on dissent. Rev. David Sunberg said parish teachers must follow church teachings.
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Excellent! Priest's need to know they are backed by their bishops.
the dots of apostacy will most likely lead to the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Housecleaning long overdue;remember,He once threw the moneychangers out of the temple.
Just guessing:
“Heterodox obstetrician and abortionista Carol Egner...”
Good. Dissenters have no right to teach religious studies in Catholic schools. Period.
Wow. That article is clearly biased in support of Egner.
Exactly. The Cincinnati Enquirer seems to be anti-Catholic!
(I can see that and I’m not even Catholic!)
"Heterodox obstetrician and abortionista Carol Egner...”From personal experience: Dr. Egner is an excellent surgeon and is very pro-life, and a major contributor to Right to Life.
She is confused about the theology of the ordained ministry in the Catholic Church and is apparently unaware that discussion of the issue - ordaining women - is a matter closed by John Paul the Great. Catholics must assent to that teaching authority.
While a woman of great medical knowledge, her ignorance of dogma and perhaps her pride have placed her upon a dangerous moral path. We must pray for her.
‘At stake was her ... teaching of a class she loved and her very identity as a female.’ ??? Oh, puleez. First of all, if she is teaching HER beliefs and not those of the church, then they are right to dismiss her. Doesn’t matter if SHE enjoys it, really, does it? And second — it threatens her identity as a female? Oh puleez. To adhere to the Church’s teachings? Well, then, SHE is in the wrong place. Because to assume that if it threatens HER identity, it is up to her to change it is a wrong assumption.
Incieents like these bring out the haters.
The Enquirer is full of them.
Maybe the dear Doctor could make herself available for service as Surgeon General, since Obama’s present candidate is under fire for being obese.
Oh . . . wait a minute.
Never mind.
A Church which actually enforces its teachings? Shocking!
May the Lord guard the understanding of everyone she comes in contact with, that no one be led astray.
He was right in the second sentence. He need not be defensive as in the first.
A good start. Next would be reprimanding or ousting the dissenters in the parishes who put or keep them in place. It will be a struggle for some, but worth it.
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