Posted on 03/28/2014 3:40:07 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Charlotte Catholic High School has invited parents to a meeting Wednesday night to air concerns many of them – and their kids – had about a recent speaker's comments about homosexuality, divorce and single parents.
Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, a Dominican nun based in Nashville, Tenn., addressed a student assembly on March 21. Days later, some students launched an online petition that called her comments "offensive and unnecessarily derogatory."
A record of the comments was not available. But students attending told their parents she criticized gays and lesbians and made inflammatory remarks about single and divorced parents....
Some students told their parents that a few teachers left the assembly in tears....
Shelley Earnhardt, who is divorced and who sent one of the emails, wrote that "in my home, there was outrage, embarrassment, sadness, disbelief, and further reason for my 16-year-old to move as far away from her religion as possible and as soon as she can."
...The Rev. Tim Reid, pastor of St. Ann Catholic Church, sent an email lauding the nun, saying "she represented well the Catholic positions on marriage, sex, same-sex attraction and proper gender roles...The Church has already lost too many generations of Catholic schools students to...a very muddled and watered-down faith."
The division over Laurel's speech is a reflection of the culture wars being waged within Catholicism and in society at large. Conservatives point to the denomination's traditional teachings against homosexual behavior and divorce.
Liberals look to Pope Francis, who has called for less emphasis on those issues and a more welcoming church that focuses on helping the poor.
Many U.S. dioceses, including Charlotte's, are led by conservative bishops who were appointed by Pope Francis' more conservative predecessors....
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotteobserver.com ...
Catholic ping!
These parents sound like degenerates. I applaud the the reverend who says it exactly as it is.
“The Church has already lost too many generations of Catholic schools students to...a very muddled and watered-down faith.”
Exactly correct. The speech made you cry? Then the truth made you cry. These people buy into the Big Lie and then cry when they hear the truth.
Oh, don’t you just love the mother who claimed this gave her daughter reason to move away from the Faith?
Cafeteria Catholics. Who needs them?
God bless this sister, and God bless the priest who defended her talk.
The speech made you cry? Then the truth made you cry. These people buy into the Big Lie and then cry when they hear the truth.
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Precisely.
Good for Sister.
If this speech offends, then you weren't close to the Faith to begin with.
This “outrage” is rather hillarious. Did these idiots forget its a Catholic school!
If this speech offends, then you weren’t close to the Faith to begin with.
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So true.
Anyone have a link or transcript of the speech to see what the big deal is?
A Catholic school is a private school. The kids attend voluntarily. They are free to leave & enroll elsewhere if they disagree with the school’s teachings.
If I was the principal I’d ask them in the strongest terms to withdraw.
I don't find a transcript but apparently this is a standard presentation that has been given for the past few months at several venues.
http://www.aquinascollege.edu/admissions/admissions-events/sisters-on-the-road/
Correct. The mom should be honest with the daughter.
There is a new right that I don’t think a lot of people here are aware of, its the right to not have your liberal sensibilities offended and these people are very upset that some know nothing nun with a PhD got up and told them something that went against the worlds teaching! I think that they should withdraw from the school en-mass as a protest just to show what true goats they are and leave the silly sheep that remain to wallow in this terrible liberal offending truth! That’ll show them!
Prayers for Sr. Jane Dominic!
The problem lies with the school and the church that runs the school...
How did these kids ever get into the position that the queer lifestyle is ok???
That’s why I LOVE the Dominicans and send my children to their schools.
the fact that this upset people tells me that school is a failure
The question might be “WHAT faith?” Certainly there was nothing this sister said that should come as news to a practicing Catholic, much less cause consternation. Lotsa schools (and churches) in Charlotte, sweetheart.
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