Tag: Roncalli High School
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...
