Prudence!
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12517b.htm
LEADING candidate??!
WHY leading? That is … NOT hired yet … but “leading” the presumed others.
NOT hired yet … so candidate.
LEADING candidate (though how this was ascertained is not told us - except that there are so few candidates) … but now BLOCKED candidate (by a person who was part of the selection process).
If the JOB was baseball shortstop and the candidate was doing something or had done something to harm their own candidacy for that kind of a job … would the government intervene with its lawyers to insure their own preferred outcome … or extort big fines and expenditure of time and monies against the employer then?
The nun’s quote is perfectly sensible. This is an antiCatholic hit piece in my opinion.
The “whistle blower” < dog whistle for "the GOOD person exporsing the BAD people and things
goes running to the government when “his side” in the controversy looks to be “losing”.
Even though the school doesn’t LOOK very prejudiced. It lets HIM, a man (and now a whistle blowing bring in the government to chastise his school man) be on the selection committee. His leading candidate, while being blocked by the Principal of the Catholic girls’ school - still WORKS for the school, has not been fired or demoted … just denied a promotion by a person who also probably knows her better than the other voting member.
The “unmarried mother” may get a nod for not aborting her baby back in the day … but her, passively or actively being a model to impressionable young women is thwarted for THIS position by her present, unmarried single mother lifestyle. Should the same woman be at some later point married in the church … would this improve her prospects for the job? Or would the same nun still block the promotion? Or would the whistleblower then not have the controversial issue he’s pushing that make him a “social justice hero” ?
I’ll say this. Being an unmarried mother does not fall on the ASSET side for this particular promotion. But a demerit per modeling the type of life a lay assistant principal of a Catholic girls school might display.
The candidate who was a Protestant man … could perhaps find a job he’s more suited to also … although he was or is being considered by the school.
The Education Minister of Ireland looks to be grandstanding with his “will not be tolerated” rhetoric. Hopefully he is not strong-arming the school to put in place this woman BECAUSE she has violated Catholic ideals.
