Posted on 04/04/2014 7:56:26 AM PDT by cleghornboy
There can be little doubt how far the Church in the United States has fallen. As this article explains, "A North Carolina Roman Catholic school is holding a meeting today to address the concerns of parents and students who say they are outraged about remarks a visiting nun made criticizing homosexuality, divorce, and sex outside of marriage during a recent speech.
Dominican Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, who often speaks to high school and college-age students on matters of sexuality, gave an hour-long presentation to students at Charlotte Catholic High School on March 21 called “Masculinity and Femininity: Difference and Gift.” School officials told the Catholic News Herald she spent about half her allotted time discussing homosexuality, blaming its rising influence in part on fatherless homes created by divorce and extramarital sex.
Sister Laurel is a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, often called the Nashville Dominicans, which is an order known for its fidelity to the Magisterium. Although the Catholic Church has always held both homosexual behavior and sex outside of marriage to be gravely sinful, students and parents at the Catholic school reacted to her remarks with shock and anger, launching both an online petition and a letter-writing campaign calling the sister’s words “offensive and unnecessarily derogatory.”
“We the students of Charlotte Catholic High School would like to issue a formal complaint regarding Sr. Jane Dominic’s speech given on on [sic] Friday, March 21st,” the petition begins. “We found some of ideas [sic] expressed to be both offensive and unnecessarily derogatory. We are incensed that you knew the content of this speech and allowed these ideas to be expressed in a school that should be preaching a message of love and acceptance.”
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Pride and disobedience seem to be the attributes of most Catholics these days.
“We are offended by her speech and outraged that she would say such things.”
Yep. That’s college-bound material there.
I am truly stunned by this story.
A nun goes to a Catholic high school, and speaks to church doctrine on various issues, including sexuality.
A nun speaking about the values and doctrines of her faith is attacked, for her appearance at a Catholic high school.
Sorry to be repetitive, but, this is stunning to me.
I am stunned that anyone would be shocked by a nun espousing the doctrines of Catholic faith. And I am stunned that critical masses of parents, who made a conscious decision to send their children to a Catholic school, are enraged that issues of the faith are involved.
If this had happened in a public school, the howls from the left would be predictable. But, to hear the same reaction from Catholic school parents is very disturbing, in my opinion.
I wonder how many of the parents are reasonably faithful catholics. I suspect there may be a lot of "Easter and Christmas" catholics in this bunch.
This story would never have seen the light of day had the subject of homosexuality and sex outside of marriage not tipped the MSM off. Any discourse against the latter two or discourse for the Tea Party or Conservatism gets the attention of the mis-information reporters or pundits who have a one-sided agenda. Sister Jane Dominic Laurel speaks her truth ... she must be silenced............
“We the students of Charlotte Catholic High School would like to issue a formal complaint regarding Sr. Jane Dominic’s speech given on on [sic] Friday, March 21st,” the petition begins. “We found some of ideas [sic] expressed to be both offensive and unnecessarily derogatory. We are incensed that you knew the content of this speech and allowed these ideas to be expressed in a school that should be preaching a message of love and acceptance.”
Clearly they were just not catechized thoroughly...
...or maybe just not taught the right stuff at their Catholic High School.
It also may be that this story is not translated properly.
It also may be that the mainstream media is not reporting this properly.
“Rome, we have a problem...”
The current stand on the question of life for many is not only in opposition to the teachings of the Church, it is in opposition to the very foundation idea of America's Declaration of Independence from assumed coercive powers of government.In America, all our constitutional protections rest on the Founders' premise that all human beings are "endowed by their Creator" with both life and the liberty to "pursue happiness."
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life, liberty, and laws to protect them.
Since the 1970's, technological advances have enabled us to observe God's tiniest creations in the womb. We no longer have an excuse for imagining that these are blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." They are living babies who will have life and liberty if we do not "destroy" them.
If we cannot, or will not, protect the life and liberty of these smallest versions of ourselves, then Mother Teresa's words, see below, take on significant meaning. On what basis, then, do we justify laws to ban acts of murder against others in the society?
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC on February 3, 1994, Mother Teresa stated: “And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
launching both an online petition and a letter-writing campaign calling the sister’s words “offensive and unnecessarily derogatory.”
Do these “Catholics” consider the Bible’s words to be offensive and unnecessarily derogatory?
No doubt. There must also be some (many, in fact) parents who agree with this Nun and want the real teachings of the Church provided to their children. I only hope they do not fold to media intimidation and cheap threats - and stand strong and speak up.
No, you are not going to get either acceptance nor approval from me!
Not in this life.
There are hundreds of groups and militant entities which due to the nature of their activities and behavior never will hear anything from me. Not hate, not disapproval, not sympathy not love and definitely not acceptance.
Hedonist children can't seem to accept the clear distinction between unwillingness to support and hate.
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