Posted on 03/25/2015 8:35:47 AM PDT by Teófilo
Jannuzzi, a teacher at Immaculata High School in Somerville, was suspended with pay and benefits two weeks ago. Her bishop, Paul Bootkoski of the diocese of Metuchen, wrote that Jannuzzis now-deleted Facebook post was disturbing and do not reflect the churchs teachings of acceptance.Her offending post, as captured by a gay activist, was as follows:
Placing private-school teachers on administrative leave is a common form of punishment that school district officials use to fire the employees, according to an official. Has Bishop Paul Bootkoski made up his mind already? Has he terminated Jannuzzi?
According to mycentraljersey.com, Jannuzzis lawyer said the bishop did just that. Attorney David Oakley told the publication that lawyers for the diocese of Metuchen said Jannuzzi would be fired in effect by the summer.
PING!
Indeed!
Prayers for her and that her Bishop will change his mind.
Not much of a bishop is he.
I think initial reports wrote that she was fired but current reports back off that heading for non-renewal of fall contract. I hope we are not heading for love the sinner and the sin.
So the bishop shut her down for standing on Catholic teaching?
WTH?
There is a website set up by her family to keep them afloat.
There is at least one child in college.
She has battled cancer and there are expenses.
It is disgusting that the Bishop entertains these boobs who despise him, the Church, and everything the Church teaches.
Truth is anathema to this Bishop and the ravenous dogs circling this woman and her teaching position.
God help us.
Wait a minute...the “pope” had lunch with homos. She should have known better than to point to something like a biblical position when Rome is slowly morphing into a cross between Starbucks and the Elks Lodge.
Just for clarity’s sake, the teaching of the Church regarding homosexuality can be found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as follows:
2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity,140 tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.”141 They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. They do not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
There’s nothing wrong with lunching with people who suffer from same-sex attraction. Throwing the book at them and telling them to swim or sink is not the right way to reach out to them. Remember that Jesus was accused of having too much to do with prostitutes and publicans. Jesus made house calls, as Pope Francis does. Sometimes the physician must go to the sick to heal them.
+JMJ,
~Theo
Sure...Rome is behaving just like Jesus (gag).
bishop@diometuchen.org
Also Contact:
Immaculata High School
Mrs. Jean Kline, principal:
jkline@immaculatahighschool.org
Phone: (908) 722-0200, ext. 110 or 111
Monsignor Seamus Brennan
c/o Immaculate Conception Church
35 Mountain Avenue
Somerville, New Jersey 08876
Phone: 908-725-1112
And don't forget the link for YouCare crowdfunding site: http://www.youcaring.com/family-fundraiser/patricia-jannuzzi-catholic-educator-needs-your-help-/322057
Thank You! Thanks so much to all of you who have expressed your support for our Mother. The latest announcement from the diocese suggests that we may have been misinformed about their decision to terminate her in August. Therefore, we are taking down this appeal as we ask for a prompt public answer from the diocese to the question: will our mother, a tenured teacher of 30+ years be allowed to continue to teach at Immaculata High School in September? ...
bishop@diometuchen.org
Dear Bishop Bootkoski,
Understanding that you are looking for a good pastoral approach in the matter of the Patricia Jannuzzi controversy, I would be honored if you would consider the following points. I am responding to your official statement as found on your diocesan website.
(1)If you're trying to teach your students, faculty and teachers with respect, why do you fail to even address Patricia Jannuzzi by name?? And why do you fail to quote her actual words, showing where they differ from Catholic teachings? This isn't "respect," it's leaving the person you have crushed by your punitive firing, nameless and voiceless.
(2) "Never wavered" in teaching Catholic doctrines? Can you show is even one instance in which you have actually, comprehensively taught your flock "our traditional Catholic teachings" on the question of homosexuality?
(3) That a teacher's comment is "disturbing" may or may not be relevant. One may "disturb" another by telling the truth, or by telling an untruth. Christ said things which were so disturbing that the religious and social hierarchy of His day wanted to kill Him. Would you want to dispute the truth of anything Patricia Jannuzzi said?
You say she has not upheld the Church's teaching of "acceptance," and yet these are the actual words of the Catechism, para 2357:
"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved." |
The Catechism also says that persons with a deep-seated homosexual tendency "must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity" and that "Homosexual persons are called to chastity." If Patricia Jannuzzi's comments were blunt, they were not more blunt than Paragraph 2357 of the Catechism.
(4) "She has never been terminated"? This is an untruth. She was put on administrative leave (with pay) until August, and informed that she would not be re-hired in September. That means she is terminated as of September.
(5) There is a difference between accepting "brethren" (ordinary men and women, boys and girls, students who may be struggling with same-sex attraction) and accepting the social and political agenda of LGBT activist groups, the "Gay Lobby."
As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis (Abp. Bergoglio) called on the priests of his Archdiocese to bring the faithful to an upcoming protest against homosexual "marriage."
"Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God," wrote Cardinal Bergoglio in a letter sent to the monasteries of Buenos Aires. "We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God." |
Pretty disturbing, isn't it? I'm thinking Bergoglio would be considered unfit to teach in the Catholic schools of the Diocese of Metuchen.
To the clergy of the parishes, Bergoglio requested that all of them read from the pulpits a declaration defending the true definition and understanding of marriage.
"The Argentinean people will have to confront, in the coming weeks, a situation whose result could gravely injure the family. We are speaking of a bill regarding marriage between people of the same sex," a bill that calls into question "the identity, and the survival of the family: father, mother, and children." |
It's impossible to miss the parallels between Bergoglio's statement, and Mrs. Jannuzzi's comment on Facebook that the Gay movement threatens to reengineer Western civ[ilization] into a slow extinction...We need healthy families with a mother and a father for the sake of the children and humanity."
(6) Patricia Jannuzzi made no "harsh and judgmental" statements toward any individual gay student or any individual whatsoever. She was speaking of the homosexualist movements, ideologies and social-change groups which are even now coercing acceptance of homosexual acts and the relationships predicated upon those acts, by force of law.
The only report of her speaking to or about an individual, was the following from the New York Daily News. "I left this school after being told in religion class I must live a celibate single life if I had gay feelings, wrote Doug Bednarczyk.
Is this wrong? Isn't this the same choice facing every human being, no matter what their orientation: either chaste celibacy, or marriage as defined by Divine and Natural Law?
This should have been an excellent teaching moment. In my opinion, Mrs. Jannuzzi should have been invited to clarify and expand on her thoughts by citing the Catechism and Bergoglio statements quoted above.
Jannuzzi should not have been suspended or terminated. That kind of heavily punitive reaction is entirely disrespectful of her, and consists of silencing, shaming, and exclusion as well as a punishing loss of vocation and income. Such radical exclusion of an excellent teacher with decades of honorable service to the Church and School is cruel and shockingly unjustified.
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By the way, I sent this to Bishop Bootkoski as a paper copy, as well as posted it at the Diocesan website HERE (LINK).
Excellent. As I said, the Bishop, who apparently has the non-courage of his non-convictions, is waffling. It’s time to keep on pushing.
The current Pope is a fraud, which renders your comments as meaningless.
Having lunch with sinners-— what a Jesus-y thing to do.
Well said!
Thank you!
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