Posted on 11/09/2021 5:41:03 PM PST by marshmallow
A music teacher at a Catholic school in the Diocese of Brooklyn was fired for violating a morality clause he agreed to at the time of his employment, said a statement from the diocese.
“Matthew LaBanca no longer serves as the music teacher at St. Joseph Catholic Academy or as the Music Director at Corpus Christi Church,” said a statement from St. Joseph Catholic Academy in Astoria and Corpus Christi Church in Woodside provided to CNA by Adriana Rodriguez, press secretary for the Diocese of Brooklyn.
“His contract has been terminated based on the expectations that all Catholic school and academy personnel, and ministers of the Church, comply with Church teachings, as they share in the responsibility of ministering the faith to students,” Rodriguez said.
“Despite changes to New York State law in 2011 legalizing same-sex marriage, Church law is clear. We wish Mr. LaBanca only the best in his future endeavors,” said the statement.
On Oct. 13, Matthew LaBanca was fired from his positions as parish music director at Corpus Christi Church and as music teacher at St. Joseph Catholic Academy. LaBanca had worked as an organist and choir leader off and on for 16 years at Corpus Christi, and had taught music since 2015.
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He’ll sue. I was once told by a Catholic leader in the early 1980s that militant homosexuals will one day collapse the Catholic Church through the court system, and that the core of this is the Democrat Party that despises the Church. Well, we see today that is the apparent goal of the Democrats and the homosexuals
Contracted...as in "contracted a disease"?
An “organist”... there’s a double meaning in that.
Well, they DID punish the monkey and let the organ grinder go.
Bless the bishop and other leaders in this diocese.
The Brooklyn Catholic school did right. It is bad enough that Christians are forced to accept homosexuality and abortion as being normal lifestyles, by courtesy of SCOTUS.
With a creepy German accent "Would you laak to touch maa moonkey?"
Regards,
Did the Catholic leader at that time understand how closeted homosexuals within the clergy would collapse the financially instead? Their damage is much worse than these PR stunts, because the militants involved usually lose in court.
I wonder how many "flutes" he blew during those years at the parrish?
The Gaystapo wants the head of the Catholic Church as their trophy, just as they bagged the Boy Scouts. They want it to survive, just as an impotent shadow of its former self, to parade around on their hood of their car in victory.
The faggots get around the “ministerial exception” by having the state redefine what a minister is. Watch, they’ll say that musicians and music directors aren’t ministers and that only the lead priest at the church gets that title.
Could be true, really
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