A preschool in Archbishop Chaput's See has asked a lesbian couple to find another school.
I'm confused.
Why would a lesbian couple want their child to be taught the tenets of the Catholic Church?
Did they want the child to learn that any sexual relationship outside of the Sacrament of Marriage needs the Sacrament of Confession?
Or, were they expecting the school to stop teaching the tenets of the Catholic Church when they enrolled their child there?
The whole thing seems staged and specious.
Clearly, this would cause a child a spiritual and intellectual crisis they are too young to process. Why would you put your preschooler into that kind of intellectual turmoil?
Seems like the pastoral thing to do to release the child and the family from the divisive emotional conflict.
From the school:
Parents living in open discord with Catholic teaching in areas of faith and morals unfortunately choose by their actions to disqualify their children from enrollment. To allow children in these circumstances to continue in our school would be a cause of confusion for the student in that what they are being taught in school conflicts with what they experience in the home.
Martin poses several rather disturbing questions. Is he really this ignorant about the Church? I've taken a quick crack at answering him:
So do the same rules apply to a child of parents who in similar discord?
-That is, the child of a single, divorced parent?
Divorced Catholics do not lose their state of grace because of divorce.
-To a child of divorced and remarried parents?
If the parents were sacramentally married without annuling their first marriage, if they developed a flag to espouse the virtues of multiple marriages and were known for railing in the community against the teachings of the Church - then of course they are denied admittance all the time.
If the parents were married outside of the Church, of course they are free to sacramentally marry - because their civil marriage that ended in divorce doesn't exist in the eyes of the Church.
To a child of a single, unmarried mother?
Again, if a single unmarried mother has announced they did not and will not seek the sacrament of confession for their adultery, if they develop a flag and have a pride parade to espouse the virtues of promiscuity - then of course.
All the rest of these, are straw men:
To a child of a parent who commits adultery? To a child of a parent who uses birth control? To a child of a parent who steals from his company? To a child of a parent who fails to forgive his neighbor? To a child of a parent who fails to care for the poor? To a child of any parent who sins?
Sinning isn't the problem. It's the effort to persuade people to disobey doctrine.
Give me a break.
The 9 Ways We Participate in Others' Sins
By counsel
By command
By consent
By provocation
By praise or flattery
By concealment
By partaking
By silence
By defense of the ill done
2 comments:
Fr. Martin SJ has a new book out: The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything,or what I like to describe as, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything But Obedience. Not by accident does Fr. Martin treat as his subjects the lives of the Saints. The Saints are intended to provide cover for what can only be understood as homosexual activism and the promotion of the "gay culture". Invoking the names of the Saints to provide cover for his dissent? I don't know what could possibly be more morally reprensible. Not by accident is Fr. Martin the "culture editor" at America Magazine. His mission is to shape the "culture" of the Church by way of indoctrinating the unsuspecting with views antithetical to the teachings of the Church. I am reminded of boys who throw firecrackers and then run lest they be caught. An example of this is his recent post about the lesbian couple whose child was denied admission to a parochial school. He asks these questions:
The parish and archdiocese are within their rights not to admit children from families that are "in open discord with Catholic teaching in areas of faith and morals." So do the same rules apply to a child of parents who in similar discord? That is, the child of a single, divorced parent? To a child of divorced and remarried parents? To a child of a single, unmarried mother? To a child of a parent who commits adultery? To a child of a parent who uses birth control? To a child of a parent who steals from his company? To a child of a parent who fails to forgive his neighbor? To a child of a parent who fails to care for the poor? To a child of any parent who sins? They too would be in "open discord."
Within short order of posting such a piece, the reader in inevitably drawn to a post regarding the Saints, in this case, we have a long post about his new book, with a picture of St. Ignatius. Most people do not seem on to the game.The mistake of hubris is always to assume that one is so clever that no one could possibly understand my modus operandi. It is the the frequent mistake of common thieves. Inarguably, Fr. Martin is charming, witty,engaging and most likable, and this is precisely what renders him particuarly dangerous. His dissent leads others into sin. He confirms others in their sin. Someone needs to call this by its name: scandal. And someone needs to reign him in.
Hmmm.
Perhaps surprisingly I agree with Martin, but with a different conclusion. The school should close. I think generally speaking catholic schools are bargain basement private schools anyway. Real catholic spiritual formation takes place in the home, it always has. A Catholic parent association based out of the public school system that is parish supported would do much more for families and the Church.
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