Tag: Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School
These men worked for different Catholic schools. Until they got married & the church...
Two men, both teachers at different Catholic schools, married in 2017. Now, the differences in how their employers treated them stands in the middle of a court case against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Joshua Payne-Elliott, who had not been publicly identified before now, was fired from his teaching position at Cathedral High School after the church directed the school to fire him.
He was not alone. His husband, Layton Payne-Elliott, teaches at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School and, unlike Joshua, his school...
A Jesuit high school is creating a new way for Catholics to respond to...
In the mid-nineties, I was a closeted gay student at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis. Now, I am an openly gay professor of religion and LGBTQ politics.
I never imagined when I was a teenager that Brebeuf Jesuit would make national news for supporting a gay teacher. But last week the Archdiocese of Indianapolis decreed that Brebeuf Jesuit should never again call itself a Catholic institution because the school refused to fire a faculty member who is in a same-sex...
Archbishop launches inquisition: All LGBTQ teachers must be fired from Indianapolis Catholic schools
A third Indianapolis Catholic high school has become embroiled in the local archdiocese’s war on LGBTQ teachers. This time, the school caved and fired a teacher for being in a same-sex marriage after the Archbishop threatened their existence.
The archdiocese has admitted it instructed all schools under its umbrella to immediately enforce all employment contracts – effectively a blanket order to fire any LGBTQ staff members. Over 70 schools in central Indiana are under the archdiocese’s administration.
“To effectively bear witness...
Archbishop punishes Catholic school for not firing a gay teacher, but administrators won’t back...
Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson has dramatically overstepped his authority in the church after a long simmering fight over a gay teacher at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School. The private school is known as one of the best in the state.
The Jesuit-run prep school has defied the demand, pointing out that the diocese does not have jurisdiction over the school. The Archbishop’s “direct insertion into an employment matter of a school governed by a religious order is unprecedented,” school officials said in...
