Pregnant Teen Catholic Graduation

[TPJCatholic]

brad,

I think the question you were asking me was: “Should the school add to this punishment because some teachers are embarrassed by the whole thing?”

I do not believe the school was embarrassed. I beleive the school was doing the proper thing and that they thought they were. It was a discipline targeted more to the continuing studetn body, then it was for the actual pregnant girl.

So, are you trying to say that no-one can be tempted?

 

[Brad]

TPJCatholic:

brad,

I think the question you were asking me was: “Should the school add to this punishment because some teachers are embarrassed by the whole thing?”

I do not believe the school was embarrassed. I beleive the school was doing the proper thing and that they thought they were. It was a discipline targeted more to the continuing studetn body, then it was for the actual pregnant girl.

So, are you trying to say that no-one can be tempted?

Will you answer the question or no? Should the kid who was punished by the town and his parents also be punished by the school for slashing tires off school property and not during school time? After all, there is visible damage - in fact, some of the parents with kids at the school were victims of the crime - so should the school add additional punishment?

Tempted? We can all be tempted. Jesus was. He suffered mental and physical anguish no doubt. I don’t think He was ever in moral difficulty though.

 

[TPJCatholic]

brad,

I answered your question in previous messages. If the activity off school becomes a scandal for the school, then yes they should act. If the activity off school is never known by the school then no they should not act. The school (as I have said many times) must respond to what it knows and to what actually impacts the student body (in their opinion, not yours or mine).

 

[TPJCatholic]

Brad,

I would certainly hope that our Lord was never in any moral difficulty–pretty much impossible considering He is God.

Example: Say a person is an alchoholic. Say that alchoholism caused him to physically abuse his family–that would certainly be a moral problem. Now, say the person quits drinking, but still feels tempted to drink. That temptation can be a moral temptation. He may fall back into his old ways.