Catholic High School student fights teacher on truth of the Resurrection

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Catholic High School student fights teacher on truth of the Resurrection
BY REBECCA MILLETTE
Wed Jun 08, 2011 17:01 ESTComments (16)Tags: Catholicism, Religion

NORTH BAY, Ontario, June 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - “If Catholic students are required to go to so much trouble with their Catholic teachers to defend a teaching as simple as the resurrection, what do they have to do in their Catholic schools to defend teachings on abortion, homosexuality, or same-sex ‘marriage’?” asked Suresh Dominic of Campaign Life Catholic commenting on the case of Francesca Sinicrope.

A Grade 12 student of North Bay, Ontario, Sinicrope has recently gone to battle with a teacher and principal at her Catholic High School over the truth of Christ’s Resurrection.

“He told us people have taken the Bible too literally,” Sinicrope told LifeSiteNews in a recent interview. “He began saying that it was like a metaphor that you follow…He said that Jesus never resurrected.”

While the principal says an investigation has cleared the teacher of wrongdoing, another classmate has corroborated Sinicrope’s account.

During the week leading up to Easter this year the Catholic High School decided to place crosses in every classroom, recounted the teen. Following Holy Thursday Mass, Francesca’s sociology teacher provided an explanation of the crosses to the whole class, saying that the same message would be given to all the classes.

Francesca’s video footage, posted on YouTube, recounts the events. “He told my whole class that Jesus had never resurrected,” the 17 year-old said. “That is so unbelievable to me in a Catholic school.”

“My really good friend asked him, ‘So you’re saying that Jesus never resurrected?’ and he answered ‘yes’,” Francesca continued. “My teacher went against the Catholic faith and the school mission statement.”

A friend and classmate, Celine Giroux, backed up Francesca’s account. “He began talking about how we as Catholics took the understanding of the Resurrection too far,” Celine told LifeSiteNews. When the teacher told students the Resurrection had never happened, Celine says she challenged his statement.

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Good for this student!

I’ve had a deacon try and hear my confession and also a priest tell my friend that the Church no longer believes in transubstantiation. I reported both of them who had to appear before the bishop and they both said they didn’t say that. Cowards. {among other things}
 
the article:
In light of the school’s denial of her account of her teacher’s false teaching, Francesca called on Ontario’s Catholic bishops to help her in her plight.
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erm… what is she looking for? Even if the teacher actually did say what she claims, the investigation has caused him to backtrack. And the investigation has put him on notice that his classroom comments are being monitored, so he is highly unlikely to repeat such comments.

What other outcome does she want? :confused:
 
Maybe it’s not enough that the teacher will not repeat such comments in the classroom. The indications are that the teacher made the statements as a result of believing them.
There is no place in a Catholic school for a teacher who denies one of the most fundamental tenets of Christianity and Catholicism.
But apparently there is a place—as the school doesn’t seem too upset about it.

A student knows the truth of the Resurrection, but her teacher does not?
 
The Principal basically denied what was said by contradicting the students assertion by saying the teacher does believe in a literal Resurrection whereas clearly he denied the resurrection in front of the students.He didn’t say the teacher retracted his personal heresy nor is any apology proffered which leads one to concur the teacher denied saying it albeit the existence of witnesses.The Principal wants the issue to go away.

In a letter dated April 28th, Mrs. Pauline Sinicrope brought to the attention of the High School principal her daughter’s concerns with the Sociology’s teacher’s “misleading statements” “that he had to have known were clearly contrary to Catholic teachings”.

In response, the principal, Mr. Daniel Villeneuve, wrote to Mrs. Sinicrope on May 25th to assure her that the issue was “thoroughly investigated” with the help of the school’s chaplain, Jean Vezina. The teacher’s “beliefs and program delivery are in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church that reviewed MANY BELIEFS(Huh???) and practices under Vatican II,” he wrote.

It leads one to question as does obviously the mother of the student what other heresies this and perhaps other teachers in this CATHOLIC school have been expressing to vulnerable and poorly catechized students.

Vatican II has squat to do with the resurrection which is the lynchpin of Christianity.

I also find it odd that the school decided to place "crosses"in each classroom in the week preceding Easter.Why isn’t the CRUCIFIX present in each classroom permanently?

The Bishop and Catholic School Board SHOULD investigate.
 
Simply put, if the story is true, this teacher has NO buisness teaching at a Catholic school.

“If true” being the key words.
 
Rascalking said:
Simply put, if the story is true, this teacher has NO buisness teaching at a Catholic school.

“If true” being the key words.
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I don’t think it would be appropriate in a public school either. 😦
 
You mean the student had to defend the Resurrection from her teacher?:eek: By the title I at first thought it was the student questioning such a thing. Good for her to defend it.👍 What is this world coming too:(
 
I like this guy, but why is this being reported by Lfesite?
 
Rascalking said:
Simply put, if the story is true, this teacher has NO buisness teaching at a Catholic school.

“If true” being the key words.
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If this story is true that priest has no business being chaplain. I didn’t realize that the truth of the resurrection had changed after Vatican II.
 
Most Catholic school chaplains in Ontario are lay people-normally women.Te school chaplain in my son’s school has a degree in theology-she is not even a nun.
 
Pax_et_Bonum said:
Most Catholic school chaplains in Ontario are lay people-normally women.Te school chaplain in my son’s school has a degree in theology-she is not even a nun.
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Jean Vezina is a priest. You just have to check Sault St. Marie diocese to find that out. He’s actually the school board chaplain rather than just the school chaplain.
 
Follow it to it’s natural conclusion: No resurrection, no salvation, , no Jesus, no God.
 
Phemie said:
Jean Vezina is a priest. You just have to check Sault St. Marie diocese to find that out. He’s actually the school board chaplain rather than just the school chaplain.
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I’m shocked and stand corrected.
 
Gift_from_God said:
I like this guy, but why is this being reported by Lfesite?
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You like Catholic teachers who deny the truth of the Resurrection? If that is true I sincerely hope you aren’t teaching in any capacity in a Catholic school. Do you consider yourself a Christian?
 
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