Posted on 05/28/2015 4:17:15 PM PDT by NYer
Another bishop supports the idea that teachers in Catholic schools must serve also as role models. The Cardinal New Society, which watches the status quaestionis of Catholic education in these USA, has a letter that His Excellency Most Rev. Richard Lennon, Bishop of Cleveland, sent to teachers in the diocese entrusted to his care.
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Teachers Instrumental in Developing Students Catholic Faith, Says Clevelands Bishop Lennon
Catholic school teachers must be role models of faith and morality for their students to emulate, Bishop Richard Lennon of Cleveland, Ohio, has told teachers in his Diocese.
In a letter sent to diocesan teachers and administrators and provided to The Cardinal Newman Society by diocesan spokesman Robert Tayek, Bishop Lennon highlighted teachers irreplaceable role in inspiring their students to deepen their Catholic faith.
As a teacher or administrator in a Catholic school, you are engaging a beautiful and uniquely important vocation and ministry of Christs Church, his letter states. You are instrumental in the development of each and every student as a whole and authentically Catholic person As such, it is a great honor and privilege to play such a special and important role in the life of the Church through your ministry.
Bishop Lennons statements are similar to those of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in San Francisco, who has proposed contract changes to ensure that his Catholic school teachers are witnesses to the Catholic faith. The Diocese of Cleveland also recently defined faculty members as teacher-ministers and added detailed language in teacher contracts to require moral behavior.
According to a Diocesan statement, these changes are necessary for students faith lives:
Our teacher contracts have for quite a long time required that teachers be models of the Catholic Faith, because we recognize the great influence our teachers have on the Faith formation of our students, not only by how they teach in the classroom but also by how they live their lives. We recognize that now, more than ever, the secular culture is offering a view of life and humanity that is often at odds with Christs truth as presented through the Catholic Church.
Clevelands Catholic teachers and school leaders sign a contract which recognizes his/her role as minister and role model of the Faith, Tayek explained to the Newman Society. The contract agreement for administrators states:
The Administrator-minister further understands and acknowledges that it is the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church that administrators in a Catholic school are truly and in a very real sense engaged in a special ministry, or apostolate, of the Roman Catholic Church and that such administrators should be witness to Christ in their lives as much as in their classroom instruction.
This morality clause has always been a part of the teacher-minister contracts for elementary and secondary educators in the Diocese of Cleveland, Tayek continued.[…]
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Fr. Z Kudos to Bp. Lennon
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**Most Rev. Richard Lennon, Bishop of Cleveland**
BTTT with a spine!
I spent 20 years in a Catholic high school classroom, tried to be the teacher the good bishop has in mind, suffered a good deal of blowback for holding fast to Church teachings, but a small price to pay for the opportunity to instill faith and moral principles in God’s young adults.
This is the FIRST time I am proud of my bishop!
Im sorry, but Ive been to the internet and I cant find an answer.
If a woman leaves her order and becomes an ex-nun Can she continue to receive sacraments. Thanx and sorry for the tangent.
While I do not know for sure, I presume that would depend on the vows she has taken and the dispensation she received from the order at the time of her departure. For example, if a Catholic, married in the Church, procures a civil divorce but the marriage is not annulled, they may still receive the sacraments if they remain celibate. Does that make sense?
Thanx and have two other answers
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