Posted on 06/08/2011 7:10:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
NORTH BAY, Ontario, June 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “If Catholic students are required to go to so much trouble with their Catholic teachers to defend a teaching as simple as the resurrection, what do they have to do in their Catholic schools to defend teachings on abortion, homosexuality, or same-sex ‘marriage’?” asked Suresh Dominic of Campaign Life Coalition Catholics commenting on the case of Francesca Sinicrope.
A Grade 12 student of North Bay, Ontario, Sinicrope has recently gone to battle with a teacher and principal at her Catholic High School over the truth of Christ’s Resurrection.
“He told us people have taken the Bible too literally,” Sinicrope told LifeSiteNews in a recent interview. “He began saying that it was like a metaphor that you follow…He said that Jesus never resurrected.”
While the principal says an investigation has cleared the teacher of wrongdoing, another classmate has corroborated Sinicrope’s account.
During the week leading up to Easter this year the Catholic High School decided to place crosses in every classroom, recounted the teen. Following Holy Thursday Mass, Francesca’s sociology teacher provided an explanation of the crosses to the whole class, saying that the same message would be given to all the classes.
Francesca’s video footage, posted on YouTube, recounts the events. “He told my whole class that Jesus had never resurrected,” the 17 year-old said. “That is so unbelievable to me in a Catholic school.”
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Catholic ping!
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.
So saith St. Paul.
“”Home schooling in the United States is the necessary concomitant of a culture in which the Church is being opposed on every level of her existence and, as a consequence, given the widespread secularization in our country, home schooling is not only valuable or useful but it is absolutely necessary for the survival of the Catholic church in our country.”
~ Fr. John Hardon, S.J.”
I have admired Fr. Hardon for quite awhile....but was unaware that he had stated this. I have my own tales about how various “Catholic” teaching has caused problems. Our children attended SEARCH groups as a preparation for Confirmation several years ago. I wish I had known then what I know now about those groups in our diocese. They were not well run and certainly did NOT perpetuate any type of virtuous, Holy Spirit inspired foundation for the reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation. One of my daughters in particular developed an anti-Church attitude after attending a SEARCH.
There is still much purification of the Church that will have to take place. Parents would be wise to follow Fr. Hardon’s advice.
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