I doubt having the entire school drop out will change their minds or behavior. Not that that would ever happen. Perhaps a handful of families decide to leave, there’s probably a waiting list they get new victims from.
These are elementary school kids and they’re being told what they wear makes them whores? But it’s drag queens reading children’s books that sexualize children. Sickos.
In another era, the church would have tortured them and possibly burned them alive. All in the name of that prayerful consideration. There is no horror that cannot be justified in the name of religion. They need to put the church behind them and never look back, as have so many others. I can't imagine why anyone who has studied the history of the Catholic Church would want to be a part of it.
That does not matter. They had the temerity to disagree with the priest in charge. They failed to bow and scrape, to surrender totally to his authority. It was the heinous crime of contempt of priest. Authoritarians gotta Authoritarian.
Wow, someone let a tiny amount of power go straight to his equally tiny mind. The whole thing is very Catholic: needlessly strict, no ability to accept criticism, calling women whores and harming innocent children. Yup, sounds like the RCC to me, you can fucking keep it.
McCaffery may be a petty tyrant, but his pettiness looms large in the lives of the targets of his tyranny, who are helplessly at his (apparently nonexistent) mercy. But he has richly earned both the "petty" and "tyrant" labels. I hope there are some compassionate people in his parish who can console him with the sympathetic remark "Sorry about your penis."
I agree with Joe, there's something a little fascist going on in the pulpit. We'll see what will happen in the future, but when the priest starts slipping on jackboots for confession...
How nice to know that, in these dark times of uncertainty, with the world seemingly turned upside-down, when nothing else makes any sense... we can always count on the Catholic Church to do something absolutely wretched to a child.
"When a family challenges Catholic teaching and curriculum decisions through sustained complaints to the school and diocesan administration, irreconcilable differences can arise."
Translation: When people ask questions we can't answer.
"The hypocrisy is glaringly obvious." I presume no one is surprised at this? Or at the lack of ethics. They seem to think that because they're Christian, whatever they do is moral.
Stories like this angers me so much! When will people recognize the hypocrisy in the catholic religion and its leaders and wake up and get out of it. Their teaching contributed to my life being miserable for so many years! I've been out and feel free but angry that little children are still being subjected to them!
A man without God is still a man, however, it seems that the Catholic Church is nothing without money. Behavior such as this won't help in that area either.
How can anyone be shocked that the Catholic Church would place more value on dogma than they do on people? After all, that is the Catholic churches, modus operandi. Fall in line or you will be deemed a pariah. As the saying goes, science is questions that may never be answered whereas religion is answers that may never be questioned.
It's right there in the not-so-good book. VENGEANCE IS MINE, saith the lord. And if I happen to be absent, as I usually am, my deputies will take care of it.
This is what I have been saying for years. Religion has always been about power and money, but as it has become more and more politicized in the United States, it has become also about dominion. And in the age of Trump, it is also about revenge.
It's what I always tell people about banks, Airlines, and insurance companies. No matter how nice they are to you, THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS. unfortunately, I doubt that this will kill religion for the muller family. They will simply go on believing.
I doubt having the entire school drop out will change their minds or behavior. Not that that would ever happen. Perhaps a handful of families decide to leave, there’s probably a waiting list they get new victims from.
These are elementary school kids and they’re being told what they wear makes them whores? But it’s drag queens reading children’s books that sexualize children. Sickos.
In another era, the church would have tortured them and possibly burned them alive. All in the name of that prayerful consideration. There is no horror that cannot be justified in the name of religion. They need to put the church behind them and never look back, as have so many others. I can't imagine why anyone who has studied the history of the Catholic Church would want to be a part of it.
[𝑁]𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑤.
That does not matter. They had the temerity to disagree with the priest in charge. They failed to bow and scrape, to surrender totally to his authority. It was the heinous crime of contempt of priest. Authoritarians gotta Authoritarian.
Wow, someone let a tiny amount of power go straight to his equally tiny mind. The whole thing is very Catholic: needlessly strict, no ability to accept criticism, calling women whores and harming innocent children. Yup, sounds like the RCC to me, you can fucking keep it.
"The school requires all families to sign a covenant saying they “support Church teaching in the school."
Wait for them to learn elsewhere in the world there are catholic schools who accept non catholic students and don't try to convert them.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Many of us who were raised Catholic realized the RCC is our enemy.
McCaffery may be a petty tyrant, but his pettiness looms large in the lives of the targets of his tyranny, who are helplessly at his (apparently nonexistent) mercy. But he has richly earned both the "petty" and "tyrant" labels. I hope there are some compassionate people in his parish who can console him with the sympathetic remark "Sorry about your penis."
Well, at least there was a prayer....
I agree with Joe, there's something a little fascist going on in the pulpit. We'll see what will happen in the future, but when the priest starts slipping on jackboots for confession...
How nice to know that, in these dark times of uncertainty, with the world seemingly turned upside-down, when nothing else makes any sense... we can always count on the Catholic Church to do something absolutely wretched to a child.
"When a family challenges Catholic teaching and curriculum decisions through sustained complaints to the school and diocesan administration, irreconcilable differences can arise."
Translation: When people ask questions we can't answer.
"The hypocrisy is glaringly obvious." I presume no one is surprised at this? Or at the lack of ethics. They seem to think that because they're Christian, whatever they do is moral.
Stories like this angers me so much! When will people recognize the hypocrisy in the catholic religion and its leaders and wake up and get out of it. Their teaching contributed to my life being miserable for so many years! I've been out and feel free but angry that little children are still being subjected to them!
A man without God is still a man, however, it seems that the Catholic Church is nothing without money. Behavior such as this won't help in that area either.
How can anyone be shocked that the Catholic Church would place more value on dogma than they do on people? After all, that is the Catholic churches, modus operandi. Fall in line or you will be deemed a pariah. As the saying goes, science is questions that may never be answered whereas religion is answers that may never be questioned.
It's right there in the not-so-good book. VENGEANCE IS MINE, saith the lord. And if I happen to be absent, as I usually am, my deputies will take care of it.
This is what I have been saying for years. Religion has always been about power and money, but as it has become more and more politicized in the United States, it has become also about dominion. And in the age of Trump, it is also about revenge.
It's what I always tell people about banks, Airlines, and insurance companies. No matter how nice they are to you, THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS. unfortunately, I doubt that this will kill religion for the muller family. They will simply go on believing.
Speaking of cancel culture.