Italian gvmt investigating Catholic school after it removed lesbian teacher
The building housing the most important Italian newspaper, "Corriere della sera" in via Solferino in Milan (Italy). It was projected by Luca Beltrami in 1904. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, January 20 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In a case that is rapidly gaining national attention, the Italian government ’s education ministry has threatened a “severe” response to a Catholic school in northern Italy that sacked a teacher believed to be a lesbian. Education Minister Stefania Giannini told La Repubblica that her office has started an investigation into the decision of the school’s headmistress not to renew the contract of a female teacher out of a need to protect the “moral ethics” of “the school’s environment.” Mother Eugenia Libratore, a religious sister of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the headmistress of Sacro Cuore school in Trent, said the teacher, who has not been named in the press, was “adequate and professional.” She added, how