Jesuit school stripped of Catholic status over display of Pride and Black Lives Matter flags

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By Brad Reed

A Jesuit school in Worcester, Massachusetts can no longer identify as a Catholic institution due to its display of a rainbow "Pride" flag and a "Black Lives Matter" flag.

Boston 25 News reports that the Diocese of Worcester has stripped the local Nativity School of its Catholic status over the display of both flags, which it says go against Catholic teachings.

"These symbols embody specific agendas or ideologies [that] contradict Catholic social and moral teaching," Bishop Robert McManus said in justifying his decision. "It is my contention that the ‘Gay Pride’ flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle."

Thomas McKenney, the president of the Nativity School, has defended flying the flags as showing "support for making our communities more just and inclusive" and showing that "all are welcome at Nativity."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jesuit-school-stripped-of-catholic-status-over-display-of-pride-and-black-lives-matter-flags/ar-AAYysEK

Bishop says school not Catholic after refusing to take down flags

A bishop has declared that a central Massachusetts school "may no longer identify itself as Catholic" because it refuses to remove Black Lives Matter and Pride flags it began flying on campus last year.

Arguing that the flags "embody specific agendas and ideologies (that) contradict Catholic social and moral teaching," Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worcester issued a decree on Thursday punishing the Nativity School of Worcester, a tuition-free private middle school that serves about 60 boys from under-resourced communities.

The decree prohibits the school from calling itself Catholic and prevents Mass and sacraments from taking place on school grounds.

In a statement, the school said it began displaying the flags in Jan. 2021 at the request of its students, the majority of whom, it noted, are people of color.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bishop-says-school-not-catholic-after-refusing-to-take-down-flags/ar-AAYyXnX

[tblue37]

1. So it's anti-Catholic to say that Black lives matter? OK--noted.

[jeffreyi]

13. Hey, just like Jesus, don't y' know.

[Pas-de-Calais]

2. Some of these Catholic Bishops expose their

Holier than thou attitude by not knowing WWJD is similar situations

[Retrograde]

8. They yearn for the days when they were Princes of the Church

and were treated like princes by civil society. Fun fact I read in a book published in the 50s: cardinals are allowed to keep a throne in their residences, but can only sit on it when there is no pope.

[grumpyduck]

3. Good luck with that.

The Jesuits report to the head of the order who reports to the Pope. They are not bound to local dioceses.

You go Jesuits!

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I was just about to say the same thing.

[grumpyduck]

5. Beat ya to it!

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Not often I get to say that around here.😀

[Stinky The Clown]

12. ...

[Beartracks]

11. That's what I was thinking!

Does not surprise me this was a Jesuit institution.

I will echo: Go Jesuits!

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[iemanja]

6. According to one Bishop

Wait for this to be rescinded.

[lame54]

7. The Highest Honor

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. I will bet that Holy Cross in Worcester, run by Jesuits, has plenty of BLM/Pride

flags flying. Why doesn't the Diocese go after them and take away their Catholic" status? Because they are a bunch conservative bullies and that would start a real war within the Church.

Back in the 70s when I was there, people like Dan Berrigan and Micheal Harrington were SJWs that were celebrated for their activism.

[Tree-Hugger]

10. LoL

The Pope is a Jesuit. Good luck, "bishop."

[edhopper]

14. If you remain a Catholic

and support the Church, you are part of the problem. It cannot be saved or redeemed.