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HONORING A PRO-ABORT NEWS: VIDEO REPORTS...by Aidan O'Connor • ChurchMilitant.com • March 31, 2022 2 Comments Catholic Memorial's mixed signals

 

HONORING A PRO-ABORT

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by Aidan O'Connor  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  March 31, 2022    2 Comments

Catholic Memorial's mixed signals

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Pro-lifers in Massachusetts are outraged a Catholic prep school is honoring a pro-abortion member of sham-Catholic Biden's administration.

Church Militant's Aidan O'Connor takes a closer look at a new Catholic controversy in Boston.

A Catholic boys' school in Boston is honoring, at its spring gala, a radically pro-abortion politician. Catholic Memorial is holding the ceremony on Friday. It will be giving its Bl. Edmund Ignatius Rice award to the self-professed Catholic Marty Walsh.

Walsh was the Mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021. He is currently the U.S. secretary of labor in Biden's administration. While mayor, Walsh supported the radical ROE Act — which allows 16-year-old girls to kill their babies without parental consent. The act was passed into law in 2020.

A coalition of pro-lifers is blasting Catholic Memorial's decision to honor Walsh. Church Militant spoke with one of the group's members.

Brendan O'Connell, president, Life Matters TV: "Catholic Memorial is using his name to fundraise, basically. I think that they're awarding Walsh strictly on name recognition only because what he stands for is diametrically opposed to Catholic teachings."

An alumnus of Catholic Memorial labeled the former mayor a "zealous proponent of abortion." But O'Connell revealed Walsh's name drew in a slew of donors and sponsors for the school's event.

O'Connell will be joining other pro-lifers on Friday to protest outside the scandalous ceremony. Walsh, who promised to make Boston a sanctuary city for abortion, is now being held up as a model for young Catholic men.

Walsh also publicly praised a doctor who suffocated an unborn baby by compressing its umbilical cord — claiming the abortionist had "a devotion to doing the right thing."

 

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MIXED MESSAGES NEWS: VIDEO REPORTS...by Kim Tisor • ChurchMilitant.com • March 31, 2022 5 Comments Vatican endorsing 'Catholic identity' of schools

 

MIXED MESSAGES

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by Kim Tisor  •  ChurchMilitant.com  •  March 31, 2022    5 Comments

Vatican endorsing 'Catholic identity' of schools

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The idea of Catholic education over the last 50 years has become a trainwreck. A new Vatican document is meant to clarify the identity of Catholic schools.

But does it? Church Militant's Kim Tisor explains some confusion surrounding the new instruction by the Congregation for Catholic Education.

The Vatican on Tuesday, restated "Everyone has the obligation to recognize, respect and bear witness to ... the Catholic identity of the school."

But it's the Vatican that needs to recognize and affirm a school's Catholic identity.

In 2019, there was a battle between Brebeuf Jesuit high school and the archdiocese of Indianapolis over the employment of an openly gay teacher.

The Jesuit school refused to fire Layton Payne-Elliott due to his so-called marriage to a man.

Indianapolis archbishop Charles Thompson revoked the school's "Catholic" status for its heterodoxy.

Abp. Charles Thompson: "First and foremost, it is my responsibility as archbishop to oversee Catholic identity throughout the archdiocese of any entity, any institution — to make sure we're carrying out that Catholic identity."

But the Jesuits appealed that decision to the Vatican, halting Thompson's decree — and preserving the teacher's job — while the Vatican investigates.

Church Militant has confirmed that nearly three years later, there has been no final resolution while the Jesuit school is still allowed to call itself Catholic.

The situation flies in the face of Tuesday's document.

Gina Fleming, superintendent of Catholic schools, Indianapolis archdiocese: "We certainly are expected to convey and be supportive of Church teachings."

With the Vatican saying one thing and doing another, it's just more ongoing confusion about the state of Catholic education. 

The document also expresses that Catholic parents are the primary educators of their children and are obligated to provide for their Catholic education.

 

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