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Bishop places principal on leave after students, parents protest ousting of gay ‘married’ teachers The Archdiocese of Seattle placed Mike Prato on leave and won't say whether he's being paid during this time. SEATTLE, Washington, February 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — After two Catholic high school teachers who entered same-sex “marriages” resigned, and students and parents protested, the bishop placed the school’s principal on leave until the end of the year. The Archdiocese of Seattle told LifeSiteNews and other media that the principal, Mike Prato, was put on leave “out of care and concern for him” but did not answer repeated...

Editor’s note: The following press release was issued on April 29. It explains why Archbishop Etienne is headed to Seattle to eventually succeed Archbishop Peter Sartain as the new archbishop of Seattle. Archbishop Peter Sartain today welcomed the appointment of Archbishop Paul Etienne, currently archbishop of Anchorage, Alaska, as coadjutor archbishop of Seattle. Archbishop Etienne was appointed by Pope Francis to eventually succeed Archbishop Sartain, who requested a coadjutor archbishop due to ongoing health challenges. “To say that I am delighted by the Holy Father’s choice would be an understatement,” said Archbishop Sartain, who was installed as the archbishop...

As part of our strategic planning and because of some of the challenges we face today, I wanted to take a fresh look at the document Lumen Gentium (LG) – The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church.From the beginning, God the Father has desired to share his own divine life with all people. When human nature fell into sin, God did not abandon us, but rather chose to extend to us the gift of salvation through his Son, Jesus Christ. “He chose to call together in a holy church those who should believe in Christ.” (LG #2)Thus, Christ came into the...

BATON ROUGE -- Clifford "The Black Rhino" Etienne entered the final round donning an orange and white jumpsuit, awaiting the judge's decision. Standing between wood-paneled walls and under courtroom lighting -- the antithesis of the ringside glitz friends say he soaked up excessively, perhaps to this end -- the fighter's bounce was gone, his expression beaten, as the hard time for crimes he committed flowed like a blistering combination to the gut -- - 50 years, 5 years, 20 years. Once the shining example of correctional reform and rehabilitation, a former convict turned lucrative heavyweight prizefighter and ranked contender, Etienne's...

On April 11, Jonathan Bean, a professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), received the college’s “Outstanding Teacher Award.” But just two days later, Bean became the scourge of the campus, abandoned by teaching assistants and vilified as a purveyor of “racist propaganda.” Behind Bean’s sudden fall from admired academic to campus Enemy Number One was a cabal of eight radical academics in the SIUC history department. Bean's offense was to have assigned as optional reading for his history class a 2001 Frontpagemag report titled “Remembering the Zebra Killings” by James Lubinskas. The class topic was “Civil...