Or rather no doubt make the ears of his staff ring since I suspect that Bishop Bootkoski will not be picking up the phone himself. The Lepanto Institute is doing what I am sure bishops truly hate: exposing them when they cravenly crawl in reaction to “outrage” when Catholic teaching is supported by a Catholic teacher:
Bishop Paul Bootkoski is playing defense these days, as a series of radio commercials urge Catholic faithful around the country to call the bishop and ask why a Catholic schoolteacher may lose her job for rejecting arguments for gay “marriage” on her private Facebook page.
The Lepanto Institute, headed by Michael Hichborn, aired two radio ads during the Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s radio shows on WOR on two days. “It’s wrong that a Catholic school teacher is fired for defending Catholic teachings on a Facebook post,” he said.
Last Friday’s ad encouraged listeners to “call Bishop Bootkoski now, 732-562-1990” and “ask him whose side he’s on: Catholics who defend our faith or Hollywood liberals who mock it.”
“Tell Bishop Bootkoski to put our values ahead of political correctness,” he said.
Another ad that ran yesterday accused the bishop of “trying to cover up her firing.”
Controversy and confusion has surrounded Patricia Jannuzzi who – depending on whose story you believe – is or was a 57-year-old teacher of theology at Immaculata High School in New Jersey.
Go here to read the rest.
Most Reverend Paul G. Bootkoski, DD
Diocese of Metuchen
146 Metlars Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
(732) 562-1990 ext. 1711
[email protected]
Go here to read my original post on this travesty. So Catholic teachers, even on their own time away from school, can no longer defend Catholic teaching? Keep those calls, e-mails, cards and letters going to Bootkoski. He has earned them.
Thank you sir.
E-mail sent this morning.
Great to see Catholics in the pews stepping up to the plate.
“The gates of Hell shall not overcome”
Mr. McClarey.
I revisited your post and read the Bishops statement concerning this matter. ( fRED’s comment)
Misguided mercy from the Bishop.
They don’t care about no stinking telephone calls. They care about faux outrage from adulterers, fornicators, and sodomites.
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They are tearing apart the Church itself. Support of sins against life and the family threatens Church unity and growth. True human dignity has nothing to do with adultery, fornication or unnatural vice.
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This is why I pitched into the garbage can the Bishop’s Appeal letter.
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Old adage, “Birds of a feather flock together.”
I do not know, were I Mrs. Jannuzzi, if I would want to be rehired.
The Bishops want us to defend traditional marriage and “religious freedom” so they don’t have to pay for contraception/abortion coverage on their health insurance bill; it would seem very dangerous to actually do so.
Seems the grip of agents of the influence of worldly ways grows tighter.
The “cat has their tongues”. “Go along to get along.”
It must be found to be easier to suffer righteous indignation than the possible vandalous deeds of hateful condemnation.
This has been the modus operandi in the face of the hundreds of thousands for years in January in DC, while agents wait until the next thing “makes it go away”.
They were prayed for in the Garden of Gethsemane, but have forgotten.
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Go to dark Gethsame,
Ye that feel the Tempter’s pow’r;
Your Redeemer’s conflicts see,
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.
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Follow to the Judgment hall,
View the Lord of life arraigned;
Oh, the wormwood and the gall!
Oh, the pangs His soul sustained!
Shun not suff’ring, shame, or loss;
Learn of Him to bear the Cross.
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Lamentations 3:19
James Montgomery – 1820
DJ Hesselius-my thoughts exactly. Perhaps an orthodox school elsewhere should offer her a nice incentive package to move.
I directed my email to the public relations and communications office for the Diocese:
[email protected]
Good. If bishops start thinking they’ll catch hell from genuflecting before the left, so much the better.
Patricia.
Beautifully shared!
Your speaking the truth.
Thanks.
Now if someone like that poor soul Sol Alinsky were a solid lay Catholic, I suspect the money for these confused shepherds would suddenly dry up.
Forty days of a Lenten journey with sanctification landing in jeopardy.
Fasting, prayer, and abstinence generally untaught from upper echelons of the church.
Thankfully, I was able to abstain from solitaire and only due to the diversion antics of their chaos.
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http://ecclesandbosco.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-your-bishop-saved.html#comment-form
After the past 50 years of bad catechesis, I’d wager most parents today
who have their kids in Catholic schools do so not because they want junior
in a Catholic school per se so much as they just don’t want
junior in a public school.
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For those parents, academics and sports and getting junior into the right
university are the priorities, and sadly, junior’s catechesis and future fidelity
to the Church are not. In fact, I suspect those parents take a dim
view of either schools or teachers that are, shall we say, “too enthusiastic”.
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Bishop Bootkoski is simply giving those parents who are his customers what
they want. They pay the school’s bills. If the parents who sent their kids to
Immaculata demanded fidelity to the Church’s teachings and solid catechesis
for their kids, Ms. Jannuzzi would be a cherished teacher instead of a woman
searching for a new job. But the parent’s don’t– and Ms. Jannuzzi is now
on administrative leave pending the certain non-renewal of her contract this
summer.
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I say this not as a defense of His Excellency– I think he’s acting in dereliction
of his duty to his flock in addition to being, well, a coward in the face of
criticism from people who hate the Church anyway. But I think the parents
of those students at Immaculata High School are also villains in this story.
The bishop and the school’s administrators wouldn’t be behaving this way
if they weren’t certain that the parent’s had their backs.
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One closing thought: Pope Francis has also spoken out against gay “marriage”
loudly and in public. Doesn’t it follow that the Pope would also be unwelcome
to teach at Immaculata High School?
Ms. Januzzi certainly should be re-instated.
But more so, those who were responsible for her firing need to be fired themselves.
I does nor surprise me, however, that a weak bishop would go along with the decision. From Judas to this day, who have been the main instigators of betrayal and heresy?
Why – dissident priests and bishops – that’s who. From Arius and those bishops who supported him and then persecuted the Faithful Church, Luther, Knox – and today, Kasper, Marx, Forte and many others – the ones at the very top.
So God bless the Lepanto Institute and all those lay organisations, supported by the likes of Burke, Mueller and other faithful clerics, because it is the laity – the people of the Church – who are the force that will stem these tides of error and destruction.
While we are at it, how about a few cattle prods to get some of our bishops to action?