Posted on 12/13/2019 7:11:06 PM PST by marshmallow
School set to host Democratic primary debate
A small New Hampshire Catholic college is in the throes of a legal dispute between the Benedictine monks who have run the school since its founding in 1889 and their own board of trustees.
The timing is particularly bad for St. Anselm College: It was chosen Thursday to host a Democratic primary debate in February.
The lawsuit by the monks, filed in November, seeks no monetary damages. Its only aim is to resolve a question on the interpretation of a state law that requires mission and school bylaw amendment power be vested in the board of trustees.
The monks insist that power must remain with them – otherwise the school could risk becoming secularized.
The board says that if the “statutorily required” amending power is not with them, the school risks losing accreditation. However, the monks say the law doesn’t apply to St. Anselm because of the college’s religious affiliation, and even if it did, the charter keeps the amending power with the monastery.
The legislative charter, written in 1889 by the founding monks and approved by the New Hampshire Legislature in the same year, gave the monks the power to “make such bylaws for the government of said corporation, and the admission and expulsion of members and associates thereof,” according to the suit. Amending the bylaws requires a two-thirds majority of the monks.
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Just another organization that has been infiltrated by the left. I am glad there is some resistance in the this case.
Pray that the monks win. They’re absolutely right.
yes, too many Christian /Catholic colleges are secularized and no different than liberal leftist colleges
Before celebrating this move by the monks, I’d like to know if they are faithful christians. The worst leftists on Notre Dame’s campus were the Brothers and I didn’t even know there were nuns running the college across the street until they came out to pull a stunt supporting Obama’s reelection.
If these brothers are like that, I’d rather see the school ID’d as secular.
The monks should just fire the board and then sue the accrediting authority for requiring an board of trustees independent of the monks who founded the college.
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