Posted on 02/18/2022 6:39:22 PM PST by marshmallow
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 17, 2022 / 11:13 am (CNA).
A principal at a Catholic school who was placed on leave after he defied the Archdiocese of Chicago’s mask mandate will not return to the school, it was announced on Wednesday, Feb. 16.
Father Martin T. Marren, pastor of Queen of Martyrs Church in Evergreen Park, Illinois, shared the news in a letter to the community of Queen of Martyrs Catholic School, following a meeting with the suspended principal, Jacob “Doc” Mathius.
Mathius was suspended from his position on Feb. 8, after he announced that his pre-K-8 elementary school could go mask-optional. This announcement came after a state judge nullified Illinois’ statewide school mask mandate.
At the time, Archdiocese of Chicago policy stated that children enrolled in its schools must wear masks, regardless of what local regulations dictated. That policy has since changed.
“[Tuesday] Doc Mathius and I met to discuss the events of the past week,” Marren in the letter. “I told him that, despite everything, I hoped we could agree on a path forward that would enable him to return as principal of Queen of Martyrs School.”
According to Marren, he informed Mathius that he would be welcomed back as principal, under the condition that he “take some fair and reasonable steps that would repair the breach his actions created in our parish and school community, as well as with our sister schools in the Archdiocese.”
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I have been Catholic all my life, but the Catholic Church has died.
The gates of hell will not prevail. The Judas’s days are numbered.
https://www.patrickcoffin.media/seven-pieces-of-evidence-that-francis-is-an-antipope/
I wouldn’t work for that passive aggressive superintendent either.
It sounds like the school had a good man, a solid leader in Fr. Marren, but that two weeks of suspension with little to no dialog being conducted, served to break the bond of trust he used to have in his superiors. Once that basic bond of confidence is gone, there is little remaining for those guided by sincere motivations. It’s something similar to the impact of betrayal.
God forbid, faith in God!
I am not a Catholic but have been saying this for at least 10 years.
Amen
The church has not died but the horrible leftists in charge of the church need to be removed and fought. That is why I stay in the church and will keep fighting against these horrible people.
I now know what Martin Luther was thinking in 1517.
Think about those words and how many lives have been ruined for it. But not of course the pols who created and then ignored the mandates themselves.
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