Teacher Directive Prompts Vigil at San Francisco Cathedral

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About 100 people attended a vigil outside the Roman Catholic cathedral in San Francisco on Friday to protest the local archbishop’s move to require teachers at four Catholic high schools to lead their public lives inside the classroom and out in accordance with church teachings on homosexuality, birth control and other hot-button issues.

The protest, which also included songs and prayers, came as Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was holding mass for teachers from parochial schools throughout the three-county Archdiocese of San Francisco and then meeting with high school teachers to answer questions about changes he wants to make to their faculty handbook and employment contract.

“I chose to send my children to Catholic schools because I wanted their education to be grounded in love, compassion, and a strong sense of social justice,” said Peggy O’Grady, a parent at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco. “This effort by the archbishop will do the opposite, and would run counter to all I believe and value in a Catholic education.”

Cordileone this week presented teachers at the four high schools owned by the archdiocese with a detailed statement of faith affirming that Catholic school employees “are expected to arrange and conduct their lives so as not to visibly contradict, undermine or deny” church doctrine on matters related to sexuality, marriage and human reproduction.

The statement, which the archbishop said would be added to the faculty handbooks, outlines the church’s teaching that using contraception is a sin and that sex outside of marriage, whether it is in the form of adultery, masturbation, pornography or gay sex, is “gravely evil.”
 
Evil, but not unexpected.

“Social Justice” spits. They have no idea what the word really means.

I’m happy that it’s 100. That’s slim pickens in a city like SF. Almost not newsworthy 🤷.
 
catholic-sf.org/ns.php?newsid=25&id=63157

Faculty handbook changes emphasize that teachers, staff must not publicly contradict Catholic teaching

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is proposing three new clauses to the contracts for the teachers in the archdiocesan Catholic high schools. The purpose is to further clarify that Catholic schools – as the first clause states – “exist to affirm and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ as held and taught by his Catholic Church.”

The archdiocese is also adding detailed statements of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and religious practice – taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church – into the faculty and staff handbooks of the four archdiocesan high schools, Archbishop Riordan, Marin Catholic and Junipero Serra high schools and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. The handbook additions will take effect in the 2015-16 school year and are not part of the contract.

While the handbook and contract changes reiterate more strongly the responsibility of teachers and staff not to contradict Catholic teaching in school and in their public lives, they do not contain anything essentially new and are intended to clarify existing expectations that Catholic teachers in their professional and public lives uphold Catholic teaching, archdiocesan Catholic Schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington said. >

< Archbishop Cordileone explained the reasoning in his letter to the archdiocesan teachers, saying “I see a need to provide more clarity for our teachers.” “For a Catholic high school to attain excellence, it must be at one and the same time an excellent institution of secondary education and a truly Catholic institution,” he said. “Changes in our secular society over the last few decades have brought new challenges to this endeavor in both senses, as we now face both increased difficulties in educating our students well in an array of academic subjects, and unprecedented challenges in forming our young people with a deep and strong Catholic identity as well as knowledge and practice of the Catholic faith,” the archbishop wrote. “The faculty and staff at Marin Catholic High School play an integral role in delivering on our mission to support and encourage the highest quality education within the values and beliefs of the Catholic Church,” said Marin Catholic president Tim Navone. “We are very proud of their commitment and understanding of this mission. Upcoming language changes in our handbook reflect this belief and confirm their understanding. Whether they are Catholic or not, we expect them to understand and support the teachings and beliefs of our church every day on our campus as well as in their public and professional lives.” Riordan president Joe Conti said “we welcome these clarifications, as they will help us to live our professional and public lives as Catholic educators in a manner that is in alignment with these beliefs.” Changes cover ‘hot button’ issues The additions to the faculty handbooks cover what Archbishop Cordileone termed “hot button” issues and are drawn directly from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. They include statements of Catholic teaching on abortion, same-sex marriage, artificial contraception and artificial means of reproduction such as in-vitro fertilization as well as affirming the authority of the magisterium of the Catholic Church and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. “Confusion about the church’s stance is prevalent in areas of sexual morality and religious practice,” Archbishop Cordileone said. “For this reason, the statements for inclusion in the faculty handbook focus on these two areas. This focus does not imply lesser importance to Catholic teachings on social justice, which in fact are widely accepted and well interpreted in Catholic educational institutions.” >
 
This is good news! Its great that the Archbishop is enforcing something that is already standard practice.

The woman’s quote is funny though, I mean really, she obviously doesn’t understand much about Catholicism, Sexual Morality is definitely a matter of Social Justice, as every Catholic should know.

I just have to say, Good Work, as always, to his eminence Archbishop Cordileone! 👍
 
May God Bless the Archbishop and continue to give him the courage, fortitude & wisdom to lead his flock and the non-Catholics in the AD of San Fran.
 
anthony022071 said:
“I chose to send my children to Catholic schools because I wanted their education to be grounded in love, compassion, and a strong sense of social justice,” said Peggy O’Grady, a parent at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco. “This effort by the archbishop will do the opposite, and would run counter to all I believe and value in a Catholic education.”
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So…wait a minute, she does not believe that a Catholic education should be CATHOLIC?
To me, that would be the very first requirement of a Catholic education.
 
Peggy O’Grady has an option, several in fact that do not include her children attending a Catholic school. What’s her beef?
 
baliano said:
Peggy O’Grady has an option, several in fact that do not include her children attending a Catholic school. What’s her beef?
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Not only that, but if she really valued social justice, she would agree 100% with the Archbishop.

His positions are 100% in line with TRUE social justice.
 
I would expect a Catholic school to inculcate Catholic values, not work against them. That is the mission of a Catholic school. The staff of the school participates in that mission, especially the teaching staff.

To give an extreme example, should the school hire an abortionist to teach sexual ethics or sex education? A school cannot instill Catholic values with teachers who actively reject those values.

It seems that parents who do not understand that do not really wish to be Catholic or to have a Catholic education for their children.
 
Archbishop Attacked For Defending Mission of Catholic Schools

I was particularly intrigued by the first comment below the article by a person who was a product of those same schools: “
“I’m a product of Bay Area Catholic schools between 1968-1980. When I graduated, I knew that ‘we are community’ (which had been repeated ad nauseum year after year as seemingly the ONLY message that ‘religion classes’ had to offer. I wish I had an indulgence for every collage I had to make about ‘community’). I did not know how to pray the rosary - my family thought ‘the nuns’ were teaching that. I did not know that Jesus was truly present in the Eucharist - my parents assumed ‘the nuns’ had taught that. I did not know what a Eucharistic Congress was; I could not confidently recite the ten commandments; I did not know there was such a thing as ‘Church Fathers’ or ‘Church documents’ though I had heard that ‘the spirit of Vatican II’ meant that we should call priests ‘Bob’ and not ‘Father McNamara’ and that nuns should dress in a more groovy way and that we should never think of sisters or priests as ‘being any different from anyone else.’ Curtseying to priests, the sister-principal and the monsignor who built our parish was ‘out’ by 1970 - along with the statues in the church, processions and the yearly May crowning of the Blessed Virgin, first-Friday Masses for the whole school and the Way of the Cross on Fridays in Lent. ‘The principal is your pal’ was ‘in’; guitars and tambourines were ‘in’; felt banners and collages - oh, those dreaded and dreadful collages - were ‘in.’”
She has much more to say, but you can read it for yourself. The pillaging of Catholic education in the immediate post Vatican II decades is one of the true outrages of that period. It’s time we demanded our schools back.
 
anthony022071 said:
abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/archbishop-lists-expectations-catholic-school-teachers-28768128

“I chose to send my children to Catholic schools because I wanted their education to be grounded in love, compassion, and a strong sense of social justice,” said Peggy O’Grady, a parent at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco. “This effort by the archbishop will do the opposite, and would run counter to all I believe and value in a Catholic education.”
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I notice that many of you are drawn to this quote, as was I as it is startling to a practicing Catholic. There is reason to rejoice as this woman’s child will actually learn the truth about one of the things taught by the the Church. Near the top of my wish list for the Church is that they would stop confirming members that are painfully ignorant of her teachings. At our Church, it is said that those that convert through RCIA know more about the Church and her teachings than 95% of cradle Catholics. It doesn’t have to be that way. I’m giving my two cents worth at my Parish and I hope you will do the same at yours.
 
JimG said:
Archbishop Attacked For Defending Mission of Catholic Schools

I was particularly intrigued by the first comment below the article by a person who was a product of those same schools: “
“I’m a product of Bay Area Catholic schools between 1968-1980. When I graduated, I knew that ‘we are community’ (which had been repeated ad nauseum year after year as seemingly the ONLY message that ‘religion classes’ had to offer. I wish I had an indulgence for every collage I had to make about ‘community’). I did not know how to pray the rosary - my family thought ‘the nuns’ were teaching that. I did not know that Jesus was truly present in the Eucharist - my parents assumed ‘the nuns’ had taught that. I did not know what a Eucharistic Congress was; I could not confidently recite the ten commandments; I did not know there was such a thing as ‘Church Fathers’ or ‘Church documents’ though I had heard that ‘the spirit of Vatican II’ meant that we should call priests ‘Bob’ and not ‘Father McNamara’ and that nuns should dress in a more groovy way and that we should never think of sisters or priests as ‘being any different from anyone else.’ Curtseying to priests, the sister-principal and the monsignor who built our parish was ‘out’ by 1970 - along with the statues in the church, processions and the yearly May crowning of the Blessed Virgin, first-Friday Masses for the whole school and the Way of the Cross on Fridays in Lent. ‘The principal is your pal’ was ‘in’; guitars and tambourines were ‘in’; felt banners and collages - oh, those dreaded and dreadful collages - were ‘in.’”
She has much more to say, but you can read it for yourself. The pillaging of Catholic education in the immediate post Vatican II decades is one of the true outrages of that period. It’s time we demanded our schools back.
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Thanks for pointing this out. It was a good read.
 
JimG said:
Archbishop Attacked For Defending Mission of Catholic Schools

I was particularly intrigued by the first comment below the article by a person who was a product of those same schools: “
“I’m a product of Bay Area Catholic schools between 1968-1980. When I graduated, I knew that ‘we are community’ (which had been repeated ad nauseum year after year as seemingly the ONLY message that ‘religion classes’ had to offer. I wish I had an indulgence for every collage I had to make about ‘community’). I did not know how to pray the rosary - my family thought ‘the nuns’ were teaching that. I did not know that Jesus was truly present in the Eucharist - my parents assumed ‘the nuns’ had taught that. I did not know what a Eucharistic Congress was; I could not confidently recite the ten commandments; I did not know there was such a thing as ‘Church Fathers’ or ‘Church documents’ though I had heard that ‘the spirit of Vatican II’ meant that we should call priests ‘Bob’ and not ‘Father McNamara’ and that nuns should dress in a more groovy way and that we should never think of sisters or priests as ‘being any different from anyone else.’ Curtseying to priests, the sister-principal and the monsignor who built our parish was ‘out’ by 1970 - along with the statues in the church, processions and the yearly May crowning of the Blessed Virgin, first-Friday Masses for the whole school and the Way of the Cross on Fridays in Lent. ‘The principal is your pal’ was ‘in’; guitars and tambourines were ‘in’; felt banners and collages - oh, those dreaded and dreadful collages - were ‘in.’”
She has much more to say, but you can read it for yourself. The pillaging of Catholic education in the immediate post Vatican II decades is one of the true outrages of that period. It’s time we demanded our schools back.
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It was a planned, coordinated attack on Catholic education and thought that started in the late 1960s under the cover of a deception called “freedom.”

catholichistory.net/Events/LandOLakesStatement.htm

wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704586504574654282563939764

It was Pope John Paul II that began the process of implementing the actual Vatican II, which continued under Pope Benedict and Pope Francis.

Ed
 
Well! In the City of Sodom and Gomorrah, it is truly amazing that for all the protests held there over the last 50+ years, a protest outside the Mass could only field 100 (+/-) protesters. Where were other unions (if no on else)? Where were the college age rebels? The hippies? Catholics for Choice? Catholics United?

Such a paltry showing…😃
 
otjm said:
Well! In the City of Sodom and Gomorrah, it is truly amazing that for all the protests held there over the last 50+ years, a protest outside the Mass could only field 100 (+/-) protesters. Where were other unions (if no on else)? Where were the college age rebels? The hippies? Catholics for Choice? Catholics United?

Such a paltry showing…😃
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:rotfl:

Short attention spans.

Cordileone è fantastico.
 
I am wondering if this thread will find one person that doesn’t think Catholic schools should be run on Catholic morals.
 
I have to wonder whether, under the new handbook, teachers would be discharged for drunk driving.
 
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