Posted on 04/03/2014 8:37:12 AM PDT by Morgana
Nearly 1,000 parents gathered at Charlotte Catholic High School on Wednesday night to air complaints about a recent speech to students by a nun who made what many considered inflammatory comments about gays and lesbians, divorce and single parenthood.
So many parents lined up to speak that the meeting with high school officials, the school’s chaplain and the Diocese of Charlotte’s vicar of education lasted more than an hour longer than scheduled.
Though the gathering was closed to the media, texts and tweets from parents inside the school gym cast the meeting as often heated, with emotions running high on both sides.
Diocese spokesman David Hains acknowledged after the meeting that the Rev. Matthew Kauth, the school’s chaplain, apologized to the parents for a March 21 speech by Sister Jane Dominic Laurel that was not the one he expected her to give.
Hains also said the high school committed to developing new policies that would better scrutinize visiting speakers in the future. He said the school also wants to do a better job of communicating with parents ahead of time when such speeches will deal with sensitive subjects such as sexuality.
“Parents should have been better informed,” Hains said.
During her speech, Laurel quoted studies that said gays and lesbians are not born with same-sex attractions, and that children in single-parent homes have a greater chance of becoming homosexual, Hains and others said.
Susan Traynor of Matthews, whose son is a sophomore, said he is usually pretty quiet when she picks him up from Charlotte Catholic High.
But on the day Laurel spoke to the assembly, she said, he spoke right up when he got in the car.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...
So the were trusting the school to wink and not rather than clearly stating Catholic Doctrine?
Time to change administration at the school and tell the parents Catholic Doctrine will be routinely spelled out and if they don't like it they can move their kids out of the school.
“Nearly 1,000 parents”?
All parents of students from this school? I find that hard to believe.
“Diocese spokesman David Hains acknowledged after the meeting that the Rev. Matthew Kauth, the school’s chaplain, apologized to the parents for a March 21 speech by Sister Jane Dominic Laurel that was not the one he expected her to give.”
Typical of the church of today that rarely stands up for what’s right.
How Catholic are these parents, if they decide they need to have a protest meeting on the subject of a nun speaking to issues of their shared faith???
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Not very....which is why recent popes have been calling for a New Evangelization...aimed first at those who call themselves “Catholic,” but do not live with Jesus as their Lord.
The Real Presence: The Eucharist: Foundation of the Christian Family [Catholic/Orthodox Caucus]
I think those Catholics need to stay in their own parish and pray and work to right the wrong.
There is a great book — a person just loaned me a copy about rebuilding a Catholic Parish. Sounds like this needs to happen here.
“Rebuilt” is the name of the book.....don’t have the author locked into my brain yet.
I had a friend who said something similar at a Catholic School — and, unfortunately, lost her job over it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Catholic_High_School
It looks like they have 350 students per class, grades 9 to 12.
That would be 1400 students. Am I to believe that for 1400 students there would be 1,000 Catholic parents showing up to protest in favor of homosexuality? It’s gotta be a bunch of people from off-site showing up.
They send their kids to Catholic school, then get upset when a nun gives a speech citing Catholic orthodoxy.
...don’t blame them...they’re only doing what their church has instructed them to do since the 1960’s, when everyone from the Holy See to the lowest bishop couldn’t turn tail fast enough on the Church and her Deposit of Faith in favor of appeasing modernism...
...just read the National Catholic reporter, and on any issue read the comments...most would like to see the RCC disappear, and adopt some generic Church of Christ moniker...
or even to the schismatic ultra-traditional groups.
...and, pray tell, what ‘schismatic ultra traditional groups’ would those be...
Is the Lutheran school affiliated with the Missouri Synod? or the ELCA? The Missouri Synod does a pretty good job of upholding orthodoxy, with the ELCA went down the tubes years ago.
It’s unfortunate to see a school sell it’s high ideals for popularity and tuition revenues.
Unfortunately these parents have confused a parochial school with a private one. Perhaps they should enroll their children in the later if they want secular values taught.
Shame on that parochial school for not making it perfectly clear from the day they recruited the students that they will teach Christian values.
The National Catholic Reporter is a notorious leftwing and heretical rag, and has been repeatedly told by the bishops of Kansas City (where they are) to drop the word "Catholic" from their name.
reiterating Catholic doctrine at a Catholic school is not anywhere close to bullying
the school caved to the homo-fascism
They are thinking of changing the name to Sts. Sodom and Gomorrah Catholic High School.
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