Current Events > MS Catholic school can't be Catholic after flying BLM and pride flags.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-catholic-school-nativity-school-worcester-black-lives-matter-pride-flags/

A bishop in Worcester, Massachusetts, has said an area middle school can no longer call itself Catholic because it flew pride and Black Lives Matter flags on its campus after being told to take them down. In a decree, Bishop Robert J. McManus said the Nativity School is supporting movements that are "inconsistent with Catholic teaching."
McManus wrote that "the 'Gay Pride' flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle."
As for the Black Lives Matter flag, he said that while the church "stands unequivocally behind the phrase 'black lives matter' and strongly affirms that all lives matter," the BLM movement "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."

"The flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing and scandalous message to the public about the Church's stance on these important moral and social issues," the bishop wrote.

Not only can the school no longer identify as Catholic, but it also cannot celebrate mass, sacraments or sacramentals, be listed in the Diocesan Directory, or fundraise with diocesan institutions, McManus said. A bishop serving on the school's board of trustees must be removed.

"While we all share in wanting all our students, in particular our black and brown-inner-city students, to feel safe and welcome, we must abide by the moral axiom that 'the ends do not justify the means,'" McManus said.

The school's president, Thomas McKenney, said in a Wednesday statement that the Diocese's decision will not change how the Nativity School operates.

Nativity School is independently funded and does not receive money from the Diocese.

I didn't realize the Catholic church took such a hard line stance against BLM.

Worcester sucks. Trust me, I've been there.

MS is Mississippi, not Massachusetts.

Mearcstapa posted...

MS is Mississippi, not Massachusetts.

@&!%~

I'm sure there's a MAP flag they would approve of.

Why didn't they just say that celebrating 'Pride' is celebrating a deadly sin so by supporting a deadly sin, the school cannot consider themselves Catholic/Christian?

Seems beeter to use a bit of a cop out than using reasoning that you know is just gonna generate backlash

Nativity School is independently funded and does not receive money from the Diocese.

Then it doesn't matter.

I'm very eager to see how the catholic schism in Germany goes. Churches in Germany are rebelling against the wider Catholic Church and may soon break off into a new religion. This would give liberal Catholics a place to go

The German priests support stuff like gay rights

A_Good_Boy posted...

I didn't realize the Catholic church took such a hard line stance against BLM.

the Catholic Church has always been a right-wing organization, but the leadership has definitely taken a hard-right political turn in America over the past 20 or so years.

The traditionalist wing is more-or-less nakedly fascist now.

A_Good_Boy posted...

As for the Black Lives Matter flag, he said that while the church "stands unequivocally behind the phrase 'black lives matter' and strongly affirms that all lives matter," the BLM movement "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."

Holy fuck shit someone not only actually had this thought come into their brain but also WROTE IT DOWN

Zikten posted...

Churches in Germany are rebelling against the wider Catholic Church and may soon break off into a new religion.

again?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/9/3/AAEhCpAADWgB.jpg

I'm pretty sure Martin Luther invented the twitter rant.

Who died and made that guy the Pope

A_Good_Boy posted...

As for the Black Lives Matter flag, he said that while the church "stands unequivocally behind the phrase 'black lives matter' and strongly affirms that all lives matter," the BLM movement "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."

...What.

Abusing and raping kids and helping those who do escape punishment = No big deal

BLM and Pride flags = OMG UNFORGIVABLE!!!

Fuck the Catholic church

What family structure is the BLM movement destroying?

hockeybub89 posted...

What family structure is the BLM movement destroying?

I think one of their tenets is the destruction of the concept of the nuclear family and to no longer stigmatize single parent homes.

hockeybub89 posted...

What family structure is the BLM movement destroying?

I dont have a horse in this race but humor me have you actually read the mission statement of the actual organization? Not the notion, which most of us support, but the actual premise from the organization founder? Its interesting.

As far as this goes, its a political organization and church schools should be apolitical by nature as a matter of principle is the main issue. They cannot promote one thing officially without promoting everything so this should just be a big nothing burger.

Damn Papists.

Bishops be like "You can either follow Jesus's teachings or the Catholic Church's teachings."