[Portland] Archbishop “Temporarily” Closes Department of Catholic Schools Amid Parent and Teacher Backlash Over Pronoun Guidance

Willamette Week ^ | 6/23/23 | Sophie Peel

[marshmallow]

The closure comes after Archbishop Alexander Sample condemned addressing students by their chosen pronouns.

According to emails sent to school staff by leaders of four separate Portland Catholic schools Thursday and Friday, the Archdiocese of Portland has “temporarily” closed its Department of Catholic Schools.

“Yesterday, Archbishop [Alexander] Sample let pastors of schools know of an important change for catholic schools for our Archdiocese…the Department of Catholic Schools has been ‘temporarily’ closed,” wrote Pastor Matt Libra of St. Rose of Lima Catholic School, a K-8, to parents on Friday. “In the interim period, the Pastoral Center will coordinate the functions of this Office with the help of a team of principals.”

The abrupt closure comes at a time when parents and teachers at St. Rose are pushing back against Archbishop Sample’s guidance surrounding the use of personal pronouns for students. (Sample, whose views on abortion mark him as one of the more conservative archbishops in the country, released guidance earlier this year instructing educators to use the pronouns associated with a child’s assigned sex at birth, and not to use a student’s chosen pronouns.)

Catholic school parents and teachers earlier this month circulated a petition online asking that parents, teachers and other advocates for LGBTQIA youth submit their thoughts on Sample’s guidance.

[NorthMountain]

child’s assigned sex at birth

"Assigned"???

Bullshit.

People HAVE a sex when they are conceived.

[nwrep]

Portland parents are hopping mad that the Catholic schools will not let them use their children’s pronouns and not host drag parties.

[NorthMountain]

PLGBTQWTF... Because Pedo is what it has always been all about.

[allendale]

Hard to believe that a parent or guardian would pay tuition, send their child to a Catholic school and then expect that the Catholic school would adhere to transsexual lunacy.

[Robert DeLong]

Since Willamette University is in Portland Oregon, and the source is Willamette Week. I assume that the Portland referenced is the one in Oregon, not Maine.

[allendale]

It appears that the Archbishop fired the Superintendent and her assistant. They did not adhere to Catholic doctrine and values. Suspect they had some parents who liked them and if they sign a petition that is meant to support them, most who sign will have little idea of what these two were really doing.

[joma89]

These people are horrible and should be treated as enemies.

[NorthMountain]

Not all “Catholic” schools are Catholic. A friend was fired from her position as a Theology Teacher at an allegedly “catholic” high school after having taught that sodomy, abortion, mutilation, etc. are violations of God and nature.

[Twotone]

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