Saturday, June 18, 2022

Actually, It's a Jesuit School

It's no surprise that secular reporters and editors don't make the distinction, but we will.

The Nativity School of Worcester can no longer call itself Catholic after flying the gay pride and Black Lives Matter flags, according to a bishop’s decree.

The flags were flown directly under the American flag on the same pole.

The symbols are “inconsistent with Catholic teaching,” according to Bishop Robert J. McManus of the Diocese of Worcester.

Explaining his reasoning, McManus said “it is my contention that the ‘Gay Pride’ flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle.”...

 ...When writing of the Black Lives Matter flag, he differentiated between the statement “black lives matter” — which he styled in lower case letters — and the Black Lives Matter movement.

“The Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and the Church certainly stands unequivocally behind the phrase ‘black lives matter’ and strongly affirms that all lives matter,” he wrote. “However, the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has co-opted the phrase and promotes a platform that directly contradicts Catholic social teaching on the importance and role of the nuclear family and seeks to disrupt the family structure in clear opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church.”...

Got it so far?  Good.

Actually, "Nativity school" is a JESUIT outfit.  There's one just like it in Milwaukee albeit there have been no flag issues there (yet.)

JESUIT is not the same as CATHOLIC.

Distinction made.  Aquinas would be pleased.

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