Posted on 04/04/2014 2:37:50 AM PDT by markomalley
Two weeks after a Nashville Dominican nun spoke to students at one of North Carolina’s largest Catholic schools and delivered a presentation critical of homosexuality, diocesan and school officials offered apologies at a meeting attended by an estimated 900 parents.
“Many said that” the first part of Sister Jane Dominic Laurel’s presentation at Charlotte Catholic High School “was excellent and fully in line with the Catholic faith,” said Father Roger Arnsparger, the Diocese of Charlotte’s vicar of education, as quoted on the diocesan newspaper’s website.
“There was unfortunately a misunderstanding about the content of the last part of the presentation,” he continued. “In that part, I understand that Sister used data from the Linacre Quarterly, a reputable journal, and from other sources. That data can be debated and, in fact, is debated back and forth by scholars who are researching the areas of human sexuality. Because of the ongoing debate, it would have been better if these studies and data were omitted from the presentation to the students.”
The school’s dean of students and two assistant principals apologized for not informing parents about the presentation beforehand. (The school’s principal was placed on leave in March amid reports of mishandling of funds.) “Parents should have been better informed,” said David Hains, spokesman for the Diocese of Charlotte, according to the Charlotte Observer.
At the parent meeting, “there were comments from parents who supported the school and the assembly, but most of the comments were critical,” the diocesan newspaper reported. “Many parents’ emotions boiled over, with arguments even carrying over into the school’s parking lot when the meeting ended after two hours.”
“Two observers called the meeting’s climate ‘disrespectful’ and ‘hate-filled,’” the report added. Parents who sought to defend the priest responsible for the nun’s speaking engagement “were shouted down by other people.”
The Charlotte Observer reported that the Nashville Dominicans have canceled Sister Laurel’s speaking engagement at the Diocese of Charlotte’s upcoming youth conference.
“They felt like this just wasn’t a good time for the sister to speak again in the diocese,” said Hains.
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Worship in spirit and in truth..
And that may mean not being in a church or synagogue...
One of the commands in revelation is to ‘come out of her my people’.
Problem is everybody has a different definition of ‘her’...
I can see a modern worldwide Babylonian system that seeks to unify religion, government and economic systems as the her..
And sadly, America is a major hub for the world government, world economic and with its ‘freedom and liberty’, a major power in the religion of the world, secular humanism..
I have seen the enemy...and it is partly us..
Now try to say that on July 4th, even around here :)
certainly we wouldn’t expect 501c preachers to step out and insult their govt leash holders, even if they believed it..
Many decades of it, including most of my K-12 education in Catholic schools.
Reminded me of this:
But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.Same spirit, I guess.
Not sure what you mean. But your question could confuse non-Catholics. The Sacraments are valid at all Catholic Churches, with some rare exceptions (i.e., not using the correct form and matter).
Any individual, priest, bishop or lay person who rejects dogmatic Church teaching, has left the Church, at least informally.
Bingo.
Catholic ping!
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Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20
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We all see clearly the great harm president B.O. is doing to our country, and I believe most Catholics here also see the great harm certain U.S. bishops from the USCCB are doing to the Catholic Church, and especially to American Catholics and potential American Catholics, with many of the things that small sub-group of bishops have been and are still doing and saying in recent times, going against clear Church teachings.
We seem powerless to do anything about stopping the damage B.O. is doing to our country, and we also seem powerless to stop the damage that a small group of bishops (the USCCB) are currently doing to our Church and our country.
There must be a better way to band together somehow in order to apply more leverage and targeted pressure in order to stop or curb the great damage that is being done by these people -- both B.O., and the USCCB.
Does anybody have any good ideas about how we, the orthodox Catholic laity and conservative citizens, could counteract these damaging, foolish actions and pronouncements by these bozos, in a much more effective way? Is there a workable way that we can band together across America in some way in order to go beyond just venting our complaints, and actually effecting positive changes due to strength in numbers, and better-focused efforts?
My own thoughts are that restricting money to them somehow should play a part, but I'm not sure how that could be done effectively beyond individual efforts and decisions, especially for bishops and dioceses across the country from us.
God once told St. Francis of Assisi to "repair His Church", and it may be time again for a whole bunch of Church repairers to step forward and band together, and do some kind of uncomfortable Church repair work today also.
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