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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 ...
Exactly. The Catholic Establishments support of illegal aliens is going to bite them on the as* too.
We are holding our own, but there is A LOT of pressure coming in.
The school has been a ministry outreach for our parish. It has been the source of many families coming in, and quite a few adult baptisms. However some of the families are upset that it is, well, and LCMS school that believes and teaches LCMS things. Many are actual members of the church.
In short, they love the education, and are nervous that the theology is “Driving paying students away”. Never mind we have to expand the facility to keep up with demand.
They can (and do).
I have a number of friends that keep saying that the church as a whole is fighting the wrong battle. What they mean is that there are reasons we ended up with the homosexual movement taking out cultural institutions. Sex in whatever situation had become something that is viewed as strictly recreational, and with no strings attached (including self sex for lack of a better term).
Once you stop view the act of procreation for what it is, you have a very hard time drawing the line at one form of sexual gratification or another.
If this school represents the state of the Church in general, along with this Pope who, through his personal philosophy, successively breaks the Tenth, Ninth and Eighth Commandments as a matter of routine, then it seems to me more and more difficult as to how indeed the Church will ever recover.
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The Pope stands behind Traditional Marriage. Where did you get this information?
No, he doesn’t.
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/04/ncr-report-from-argentina-bergoglio-did.html
Pope says marriage between man, woman is image of God
Catholic Church opposed to gay marriage
(ANSA) - Vatican City, April 2 - Pope Francis told around 45,000 faithful in St Peter’s Square that marriage between a man and a woman was a image of God’s love during his general audience on Wednesday. “When a man and a woman celebrate the sacrament of marriage, God is reflected in them,” the Argentine pontiff said. “He imposes His features in them and the indelible character of His love. “The image of God is the married couple - not just the man, not just the women, but both...
and this is very beautiful”.
Francis has made openings to gay people since being elected the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics last year, saying on one occassion “who am I?” to judge homosexuals who seek God. But the fact he stressed the importance of marriage between a man and woman pn Wednesday is likely to be interpreted as a reiteration of the Church’s opposition to the legalisation of gay marriage in some parts of the world
Salvation, Just let me say that I respect what you stand for. I studied Catholicism in my youth and wish nothing but the best for The Church.
It distresses me to point out that by his socialist leanings with respect to income redistribution - which regardless how you dress it up is what it is - the Pope is actually encouraging covetousness by encouraging the divisiveness that can only come from socialism, and communism. Whereas free markets are successively to capitalism, unencumbered by this type of academic soft-soapiness. Moreover, they retain that degree of humanity and social utility as to be measured, IMHO, as far superior to whatever the Pope is pushing.
If I’m wrong in this I’m open to correction.
This violation would be bad enough in and of itself, but it would inevitably lead - and demonstrably has led - to circumstances which by their consequence violate the Ninth Commandment also, which is not to bear false witness.
This in turn cavalcades into what I believe is also The Pope’s violation of the Eighth Commandment which precludes outright theft.
Sorry to seem so harsh, but I see definite problems for Catholicism - and Christianity in general, as this Pope’s influence ripples seismically across the Christian landscape.
Combined with this general loosening of Catholic standards that I mentioned earlier, can you actually see it another way?
God, I wish it were so.
What do you think I’m missing?
what you are missing is that the pope’s remarks are often taken out of context. His remarks against capitalism wasn’t about the honest hard working businessmen in the USA, but about crony capitalism is, alas, true in places like Argentina (and here in the Philippines) where only those connected with the “big families” can succeed in business. That doesn’t make him a socialist.
And a lot of his other remarks are taken out of context also. The divorce discussion is a problem: but not if you realize a lot of “catholics” who divorce aren’t really practicing Catholics. Often they are lax and just want to have a fancy wedding in church to please their family, not to honor God with their vows.
So should a person stay with someone who doesn’t believe that marriage includes fidelity and lasts forever?
If this was Massachusetts, I wouldn't be surprised. But there are good Catholic schools, even here. When my homeschooled daughter was going through the first Communion program at our local parish, the only other kids who could answer any of the priest's questions were a couple of kids who attended St. John's.
No, I can't tell you about the questions and answers from the rest. It's too depressing.
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