Posted on 05/10/2010 11:53:16 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Unemployed, non-religious educators are turning to Catholicism in an attempt to secure a coveted teaching position, even it means lying in confession about whether they've had pre-marital sex, some have revealed.
“I don't particularly like going (to mass) every Sunday, but if this is what I have to do, then I'll do it,” said a Toronto-area woman, who didn't want to be identified.
“I just really want to be in a career. I just want it so badly.”
The teacher said she has also been going to confession regularly and speaking with a priest on a weekly basis in order to receive the documents she needs to apply to the Toronto Catholic District School Board.
She is not Catholic. In fact, she doesn't consider herself religious.
The oversupply of qualified, unemployed teachers in Ontario has been a well-documented problem. According to the Ontario College of Teachers, there were about 12,200 new teachers in the province in 2009, but only about 5,000 positions.
“What you can see, fairly quickly, is you have twice as many teachers as you do job opportunities and that has been going on for a number of years now,” said Frank McIntyre, a researcher for the college, who added the gap has been accelerating since 2005.
“We're getting a backlog of qualified teachers who are not able to get teaching jobs.”
This has left teachers desperate, so they've decided to cast their net wide.
“You feel really helpless,” said the teacher. “I thought, why not try this option. It was kind of out of desperation... not that I think it will work for sure, but it's to have another option.”
The teacher said she has read about the sacraments in a catechism book and has performed religious rituals.
During her first confession, she crept into a dark
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Missy?
You obviously have a problem with gender confusion.
snicker.... protestants are the outcast of the global PC world... well at least for the time being.... ha we generally do not call Jesus an itinerant preacher, but the ONLY begotten Son of God.
Sounds like a medical problem.
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It would be more worrysome if we weren’t outcast — I’d think we were doing something wrong.
SnakeDoc
That would certainly be a shame. Haha.
SnakeDoc
I am a parochial school graduate and my faith was partially formed by loving Catholic teachers who taught the faith by example and ethics were woven into all of the subjects.
It sounds to me like her priest was trying to help her make a good confession. The article suggested that she tried to make a general confession, even though she didn't quite know what she was doing and wasn't planning to be completely honest. My priest asked me that same question when he received me back into the church. Having started with the "big" stuff, the whole question of sexual morality actually slipped my mind. My confessor caught it and prompted me. (Father: "Is there something else?" Me: "I don't think so." Father: "Um, are you married?" Me: "No..." Father: Clears throat. Me: "Oh!!")
What a great mercy for her that she started this journey through reconciliation instead of at the table. I don't believe it will go unrewarded, even if she didn't intend it this way.
Well, I think we should recognize that America is primarily based on Protestant culture while Europe is based on Catholic culture. Europeans are a lazy lot while America believes in hard work and free-enterprise. This is not a tangential issue, but the primary impetus for entrepreneurship in America comes from the Protestant culture. I am afraid that if too many Catholics pour into the US from Mexico, we will soon see “revolutions” here too like in other Catholic countries.
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