Catholic College Fires Openly Gay Priest in Pennsylvania

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Do Catholic Colleges normally hire instructors who aren’t Catholic? If so, why? Are they required to hire student instructors of various faiths?

foxnews.com/us/2011/02/26/catholic-college-fires-openly-gay-priest-pennsylvania/

This Catholic college hired a priest/professor from the Old Catholic Church Of The Americas.

In the Old Catholic Church of the Americas, a priest who is SSA is not required to practice chastity.

Fr. James St. George recently made a public statement that he has been in a homosexual relationship with another man for the past 15 years.

Upon learning about Fr. St. George’s comments, the Catholic college fired him.

Father St. George responded by saying that to “openly admit hatred and anti-gay bias is deplorable, and I continue to be very sad that such hatred exists.”
 
Oh, this college better have something legal to stand behind. I have a feeling this is going to get ugly. 😦
 
Barbkw said:
Do Catholic Colleges normally hire instructors who aren’t Catholic? If so, why? Are they required to hire student instructors of various faiths?
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I don’t think they are required, but according to Fr. St. George, he was told when interviewed that they employ instructors of many faiths.

Here is the earlier thread on this topic. I posted a few links in it.
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=7600238

And here is a recent article about his newspaper ads in which he tries to lure Catholics to his church, and away from the Catholic Church.
myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/030111-fired-priest-runs-ads-comparing-catholics
 
DJgang said:
Oh, this college better have something legal to stand behind. I have a feeling this is going to get ugly. 😦
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I don’t think so, despite Fr. St. George kicking up a fuss. Although many of the headlines have painted this as a firing, it appears that his contract was simply not renewed. Granted, the college could have given him more warning. And it may have verbally told him it would be renewed, then changed its mind.
 
Dale_M said:
I don’t think so, despite Fr. St. George kicking up a fuss. Although many of the headlines have painted this as a firing, it appears that his contract was simply not renewed. Granted, the college could have given him more warning. And it may have verbally told him it would be renewed, then changed its mind.
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Not only that but checking other reports, it seems he was an adjunct faculty member. Adjunct faculty are generally retained on a semester-to-semester (or even course-by-course) basis.
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Do Catholic Colleges normally hire instructors who aren’t Catholic? If so, why? Are they required to hire student instructors of various faiths?
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Catholic Colleges and Universities are allowed to hire non-Catholic facutly as long as the number of non-Cathlics remain in the minority. They are not required to hire non-Catholics but most do to varying extents.
 
Dale_M said:
I don’t think so, despite Fr. St. George kicking up a fuss. Although many of the headlines have painted this as a firing, it appears that his contract was simply not renewed. Granted, the college could have given him more warning. And it may have verbally told him it would be renewed, then changed its mind.
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Ok, that’s what I meant…simply contract was not renewed, legalities covered.
 
His complaints are typical moanings of a sinner when the sin he loves is treated as a sin by someone.
 
Well they should.

Homosexuals did/does not do the Church any good. The poor Church is made a mockery by society because of the scandals. They have every reason to do it. The Catholic Church should defrock every homosexual in the Priesthood. Shut all the anti-Catholics up. And wake up the gay rights groups.

You could never win in life. 🤷
 
Seems all gays have a persecution complex…Old saying, “Kick one and they all limp.”
 
I do not recall who said it, but I hate to tell you this, he is still a priest, since an ordination can not be reversed. NOW, that does not make him a good priest :mad::mad:
 
Trinityisgod said:
I do not recall who said it, but I hate to tell you this, he is still a priest, since an ordination can not be reversed. NOW, that does not make him a good priest :mad::mad:
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I dont believe he was ordained a Catholic priest, just an offshoot that has "catholic’ in the name. That means no ordination, no preist. The headline is misleading.
 
yup the article states that his denomination broke off in 1870 sooooo unless he is really old he was not ordained by the Catholic church… no ordination, he is as much of a priest as the rev jesse jackson.
 
Catholicpotato said:
yup the article states that his denomination broke off in 1870 sooooo unless he is really old he was not ordained by the Catholic church… no ordination, he is as much of a priest as the rev jesse jackson.
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Just because they are not in communion with Rome, does not make their ordinations invalid.
The Eastern Orthodox church, for example, split almost 1000 years ago. Their ordinations and sacraments are valid.

As long as the “Old Catholic Apostolic Church” has kept it’s correct ordination rite, then they are definetly valid. 🙂
 
PiousTemplar said:
Just because they are not in communion with Rome, does not make their ordinations invalid.
The Eastern Orthodox church, for example, split almost 1000 years ago. Their ordinations and sacraments are valid.

As long as the “Old Catholic Apostolic Church” has kept it’s correct ordination rite, then they are definetly valid. 🙂
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Which does raise the question, do they have valid orders?

It may be important to note that St. Miriam’s is not part of the Old Catholic Church, but of the Old Catholic Apostolic Church of the Americas (a denomination founded in the 1950s). The Old Catholic Church was founded in Europe in the 1870s, and obtained valid episcopal ordinations from an old Jasenist schism in the Netherlands (the Union of Utrecht).

Within a couple decades, the Old Catholics, freed from Rome, splintered into multiple denominations with varying beliefs and practices. And those splinters often gave rise to new splinter denominations. The result has been an episcopal chain which is hard to ascertain at times, although just about all of the independent Catholic Churches claim apostolic succession through the Old Catholic/Union of Utrecht line.

And then there is the matter of whether the ordination rite was altered, as well. I have no idea. 🤷

I mention all of this because the matter of whether Fr. St. George’s ordination would be recognized by the Catholic Church as being valid may not be simple to determine.
 
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