Page 20
-
Online petition seeks to save job of gay speech teacher fired by Catholic school
Students, parents and alumni of an Omaha Catholic high school are among the thousands who’ve signed an online petition calling for the school to reverse its decision to fire a teacher over his same-sex relationship.
-
Peru rejects civil unions bill after Catholic bishop calls gay lawmaker a ‘faggot’
Lawmaker Carlos Bruce said he was disappointed a representative of the Catholic Church, “apparently lacking arguments, now resorts to insults.”
-
Catholic archdiocese of Cincinnati to tweak teacher contract morality clauses
The contract still prohibits teachers from “any conduct or lifestyle” that would contradict Catholic teachings or morals.
-
Archbishop answers disapproving letter from lawmakers over morality clause
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote the message in response to a letter sent to him earlier this week by California lawmakers urging him to remove from a teachers’ handbook morality clauses they say are discriminatory and divisive.
-
Gay Catholics get Vatican welcome, but no papal shout-out
The Vatican did something it has never done before by giving a group of U.S. gay and lesbian Catholics VIP seats at Pope Francis’ weekly general audience Wednesday.
-
California lawmakers urge archbishop to remove morality clauses from teacher handbooks
The morality clause outlines the church’s teaching that using contraception is a sin and that sex outside of marriage, whether it is in the form of adultery, masturbation, pornography or gay sex, is “gravely evil.”
-
Catholic archbishop’s teacher directive prompts vigil at San Francisco cathedral
About 100 people attended a vigil outside the Catholic cathedral in San Francisco to protest the local archbishop’s requirement that teachers at four Catholic high schools lead their public lives in accordance with church teachings on homosexuality.
-
Slovakia holds referendum on same-sex marriage, adoption
Slovaks are voting in a nationwide a referendum that would bar gay marriages and adoptions, and allow parents to decide whether their children attend sex education classes.
-
San Francisco Archbishop details expectations for Catholic school teachers
The Catholic archbishop of San Francisco has unveiled a faculty handbook calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and other behaviors he describes as evil.
-
Pope Francis urges Slovakia to vote ‘yes’ on referendum to restrict gay rights
Slovakia’s anti-gay marriage movement has received massive support from the Catholic Church, and Pope Francis this week even gave his blessing to the referendum in an address on St. Peter’s Square.