Case in point:
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A theology teacher at a Catholic high school in Columbus has been terminated after she said the cause of George Floyd’s death was “disputed.”
The Catholic Diocese of Columbus said on Tuesday that Deborah DelPrince had been terminated after she was placed on administrative leave last week.
Go here to read the rest. Go here to read some more. She had taught at the school since 1999 and she was unhesitatingly thrown under the bus in an instant for wrongthink. Cowards, and far worse than cowards, will determine your fate if you step an inch beyond Leftist orthodoxy in today’s Church.
Hattip to my Bride for bringing the story to my attention.
Catholic?
And PaPa Frankie speaks of Trads being rigid.
Catholic school?
The thought police in Jesus’s day hung him up too.
The teacher is in good company.
May she realize that and glorify God by redemptive suffering.
Still. Shame on the school.
Too many Catholic schools–no intent here to sweep with too broad of a brush– are “far too often” thought of as merely private schools that parents can use to avoid public schools. Sadly, in far too many they need not fear their children being “proselytized” into actually believing and adhering to the faith.
It’s how totalitarians roll. One lie follows another ad infinitum; each fake incident deployed to take away more of your freedom.
.Similarly, five seconds after we heard about the Boulder tragedy WE knew a great deal: they will fictionalize it and employ it to for the 10,000th time try to foment hated against white men and take our guns.
Facts Be Damned. The Narrative Rules.
The stupid. It burns. I get so sick of liberals and their smelly little orthodoxies.
The demographic collapse of the religious orders has been far more severe than the decline in the number of ordinations to the secular clergy (which has been more severe than the decline in attendance at Mass and which can be ameliorated by the vocational diaconate, parish consolidations, and parceling out functions to laymen). The disappearance of friars, brothers, and sisters living communally and compensated with modest stipends has destroyed the economy of Catholic schools and ruined the level of religious literacy among their employees. So, what you get are redoubts of professional-managerial class people who have extra cash and do not care for the district schools. Remember Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel in Charlotte and Katelyn Sills in Sacramento? That’s the sort of scandal you get when that’s your clientele. It’s a reasonable wager that the faculty, administration, and staff at Bp. Ready are what you’d expect of a randomly selected set of NGO employees (with the only Republican voters on the campus being the building custodian and the office manager). If we had real bishops, there would be a diocesan drive to organize homeschool co-operatives and these dinosaurs would be shut down.
The quondam Catholic school teacher in our nexus has a post-baccalaureate degree from Franciscan. He lasted one year as a secondary school religion teacher. He works in sales and service now and spends all day supervising a staff who field customer complaints; he is, I am assured, not nearly so demoralized by his work life as he was five years ago.
Art,
Me too.
Is it stupidity or dishonesty? Stupid isn’t a sin.
My guess is that these catholic centers prescribe to a form of Liberation theology. Social justice without Christ. Jesus in the Eurchrist, symbolically only. Abortion is rare, safe and only as a last resort…
Hippie Jesus.
What a downer man.
The Catholic Church would be a great place if it weren’t for Catholics.
Catholic high schools are pretty much prep schools for the upper middle class in most areas of the country today.
My guess is that these catholic centers prescribe to a form of Liberation theology.
I think you’re assuming a depth that is seldom there.
Note that saying that George Floyd was killed by a racist cop would have been just fine, despite the fact that even after all this time the only evidence for Chauvin being racist is that he is white and Floyd was black.
Art Deco.
Geesh. That bad?
CINO schools. I didn’t realize.
GTACS. Northwestern Michigan Catholic School system is most definitely above the norm…thank God.
Note that saying that George Floyd was killed by a racist cop would have been just fine, despite the fact that even after all this time the only evidence for Chauvin being racist is that he is white and Floyd was black.
Again, the stupid. It burns.
Evidently it was the diocesan chancery who ‘investigated’, insisted she be fired, and trashed her to the media. Amazing the alacrity with which they move when they’re motivated.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-bishop-pulls-priest-from-parishes-for-divisive-remarks-on-homosexuality
Another maneuver by this frankenchurch bishop.
the only evidence for Chauvin being racist is that he is white and Floyd was black.
You say that as if that is not enough evidence. We long ago said it was fine again to judge based on skin color, and much of the Church appears to have gone with it. I remember the Duke Lacrosse story years ago, in which multiple academics were on the news saying that it’s in the blood of every white American boy to want to rape minorities. That’s when my second oldest quipped something I will always cherish: ‘So I guess we can always tell a racist by the color of his skin?’ Since Ferguson, and now George Floyd, the answer to his question is a resounding ‘yes’, with the majority of Americans in full agreement.
One needs to look carefully at a “Catholic” school these days–those that are left. I had to take my 7 year old son out of one due to abuse there. Thank God I got him out; all his little friends, now grown, have left the Church as far as I know. Our local Catholic church has teachers, I am told, who do not believe. Even worse, never be a part of a parish staff or chancery: very dangerous to the faith!
Art Deco’s link regarding Fr. Klee is outlandish. The Bishop should be embarrassed…not for what the priest has done or said publicly, but for his own cowardice and lack of vision. We can use more priests like Fr. Klee;
[Klee also asked for prayers for:
For a tremendous outpouring of graces upon the spiritual leadership of the Church (specifically upon the bishops and priests), that they would be empowered with the Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude. That they would implore the intercession of the martyrs, lest they go from being potential victims of Satan’s attacks, to being actual instigators and accomplices (like the Pharisees in Our Lord’s day). Please pray that they would be freed from a subtle resignation to despair, specifically that of falling into discouragement that the authentic Gospel of Christ and the teachings of the Catholic Faith are not the answer, but that atheistic socialism is.]
To close to home for said Bishop.
Putting avoiding “divisiveness” above defending Church teaching is the sure sign of a bad shepherd:
49 ‘I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 From now on, five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 they will be divided:
father against son
and son against father,
mother against daughter
and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’
Luke 15:49-53
I had a conversation with officials in my diocese about how there just aren’t any programs for catholic high school age children that can’t afford the $15K per year per child for private high school, and that we are loosing these young persons by the boatload. (My wife and I promote NFP and have four children.) I was told that I was a “granola” person (NFP) and we should not have had four children if we couldn’t afford the (4x15x4) $240K for high school.
They not only saw use contraceptives as ok, they viewed anyone who followed the Church as foolish. They loved the nostalgia of catholic school, but not the Faith.
More, I came to realize the schools weren’t really about the Faith , they were about getting into top colleges and worldly acceptance.
Therefore, this theology teacher being fired doesn’t surprise me at all.
Of course she was fired.
Pray for lay people who care, who have earnestly tried.
Fortitude. Free from despair.
Etcetera
I was told that I was a “granola” person (NFP) and we should not have had four children if we couldn’t afford the (4x15x4) $240K for high school.
I’m fascinated. Which official told you that, and what did they say verbatim?
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I was told that I was a “granola” person (NFP) and we should not have had four children if we couldn’t afford the (4x15x4) $240K for high school.
Preferential option for the poor, except when it will cost the diocese a buck. Got it.
Art, two years ago, both the head the superintendent of the diocese catholic school system and the head of the CCD in the diocese.. I live is SE Massachusetts.
“The disappearance of friars, brothers, and sisters living communally and compensated with modest stipends has destroyed the economy of Catholic schools and ruined the level of religious literacy among their employees.”
Exactly. For this as well as other less tangible reasons, such as the loss of all the countless prayers and good works done by those religious communities, the dissolution of the consecrated religious life, at least in the West (I don’t know how it is in other parts of the world), is in my opinion the most damaging legacy of the post-Vatican II changes in the Church. I believe it may be even more damaging to the Faith than the neutering of the doctrine of “outside the Church there is no salvation”, which led to the nearly complete disappearance of worldwide Catholic missions for the conversion of souls, among other ill effects. Just my hindsight, for what it’s worth.
Not surprised. Gordon was fired for not agreeing with BLM.
My bishop would drive around with a chauffeur in a lexus. Truly the bishops are out of touch.
Among Fr. Klee’s manifold sins and crimes is that he actively encouraged the recitation of the Act of Reparation to the Sscred a heart of Jesus.
Truly this is a dangerous man.
It becomes clearer everyday – when the Barque of Peter went adrift the whole world went insane – or – to put it another way – the errors of Russia have spread throughout the world.
What dispute? There is no such thing as an “alternative fact.”
The Left you pledge allegiance to John would be out of business without their alternative facts world view.
What dispute? There is no such thing as an “alternative fact.”
I’m sure the moderator’s wife and daughter can undertake a literature review for you and produce an annotated bibliography. Should they do so, you’ll discover that in surveys of post-mortems conducted consequent to overdose deaths, a femoral blood level of 11 nanograms per cc of fentanyl was about the median. If you examine the portions of the available video which law enforcement in Minneapolis kept concealed for weeks, you’ll see he was complaining he couldn’t breath when he was sitting bolt upright. When you overdose on fentanyl, your lungs fill up with fluid. There is no reason in the world this woman should lose her job because she knows more about the case than the smarmy bureaucratic microbes in the chancery.
Comment of the week Art! Take ‘er away Sam!
While I have my personal doubts that fentanyl was the but-for cause of death, his blood level is a fact worthy of consideration by the jury. As was Floyd’s swallowing of drugs in a previous arrest in 2019, which the jury will also be permitted to consider.
Again, I think that a jury is likely to find that the knee on the neck for several minutes will get over the “reasonable doubt” threshold.
But that’s not my job, that’s the jury’s–who will have access to more evidence that any of us. And that “us” most definitely includes the leftists and cowards in the Columbus chancery.
What might be of more interest to the jury is that Floyd had a pattern of ingesting drugs when the cops showed up in at least one incident a year before. If Chauvin, who personifies corrupt, brutal cop in my opinion, received a normal trial I doubt if the prosecution could sustain their burden. As it is, a member of this jury might well decide that a non guilty verdict for Chauvin is a death sentence for the juror, at least in Minneapolis. If I were the defense attorney, I would drop the jury and go with a bench trial. In Illinois this can be done at any time prior to a Jury returning a verdict, and I do not know about Minnesota. This Judge strikes me as gutsy enough to go strictly by the evidence and not be affected by fears of retribution.