Archdiocese: School with gay teacher can't use Catholic name

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Source: Associated Press

Archdiocese: School with gay teacher can’t use Catholic name

By KEN KUSMER
June 20, 2019

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Archdiocese of Indianapolis no longer will recognize a Jesuit high school as Catholic because it refuses to fire a teacher who’s in a same-sex marriage, it announced Thursday.

A decree to be issued Friday by Archbishop Charles Thompson says that Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School “can no longer use the name Catholic and will no longer be identified or recognized as a Catholic institution.”

“Whether they teach religion or not, all ministers in their professional and private lives must convey and be supportive of Catholic Church teaching. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis recognizes all teachers, guidance counselors and administrators as ministers,” the archdiocese said in a statement Thursday.

Archdiocesan-operated Indianapolis Roncalli High School has fired or suspended two guidance counselors in the past year because they’re both in same-sex marriages.

However, Brebeuf is independent of the archdiocese despite being located in it and has “always maintained control of our school’s operations and governance, including our personnel decisions,” the school’s leaders said in an open letter Thursday. The Indianapolis school has 793 students in grades 9-12, with a faculty and staff of 132.

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[Igel]

1. I find the headline misleading.

It would be like having the headline, "Archdiocese: School with straight teacher can't use Catholic name" if it maintained on its payroll somebody who was flagrantly committing adultery or with a live-in but unmarried opposite-sex partner.

I could be wrong, but I suspect if you read the contract and policies that would also be not living up to the "high moral standards" required, and the archdiocese could without approval. Now, whether or not it actually has in the recent past, dunno. By "recent" I mean the last 5 years, not digging back to an instance from 1923 or 1986.