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Bishop corrects Catholic kids who value gay culture above God's word

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The mission of every Catholic school is to provide young people with a quality academic education grounded in and centered on authentic Catholic teaching and practices. Catholic education is an important ministry that supports and furthers the mission of the Church. The teaching mission of the Church comes from Christ Himself. All involved in the ministry of Catholic education, regardless of the positions they may have or the duties and responsibilities they shoulder, are charged with forming young people into witnesses to Christ and opening their hearts to the spiritual transformation given by the Holy Spirit . By their words and by their lives, they teach. Consequently, all involved in the ministry of Catholic education are required to conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with the discipline, norms and teachings of the Catholic Church . In acknowledgement of that requirement, they accept and sign a Ministerial Agreement and Code of Conduct. They oblige themselves to...

Catholic school’s legal battle continues over dismissal of former counselor, coach in gay ‘marriage’

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The discrimination lawsuit filed by a former New Jersey Catholic high school employee fired for   entering into a homosexual “marriage”   will move forward after a state appeals court declined review of a superior court decision allowing the suit to progress. Kate Drumgoole sued Paramus Catholic High School and the Archdiocese of Newark in April, claiming her dismissal last January violated the state’s anti-discrimination law and intentionally inflicted emotional distress. Drumgoole was fired as dean of guidance and head girls basketball coach after administrators learned she was “married” to another woman, which the school conceded in court   last August , arguing it did not violate discrimination law because of the expectation for employees to abide by Catholic Church teaching. "She was terminated for violating the Ministerial Policies and the Code of Ethics — in failing to abide by the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith , i.e. by entering into a same-s...

The New Witch-Hunt: progressivism’s growing persecution of traditionalist Christians

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The eventful year of 2016 is over, and as the holiday season approaches and busy schedules perhaps allow a bit more time for some reading, I have an urgent recommendation for you: Get your hands on Mary Eberstadt’s short but powerful book It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies. It’s only 126 pages long—I read it in a few hours—but it lays out succinctly and with beautiful clarity what she calls the battle of the creeds, the war between the Sexual Revolution and traditionalist Christianity that has been waged with increasing sound and fury since the advent of the Pill. When Eberstadt refers to the targeting of “ Christians ,” she is of course referring to traditionalist Christians—those who still hold to the two-thousand-year-old teachings on sexuality that Christians have always believed. This is a distinction that is now necessary. The Sexual Revolution has managed to generate a contingent of religious quislings, “progressive” Christians who have more or les...

Gender Revolution or Gender madness?

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Feminism rebelled against reality. Transgenderism seeks to abolish it entirely. But the feminists and the gender ideologues are beginning to realize that their worldviews don’t line up very nicely. It seems as if our culture doesn’t quite understand just how radical the transgender fad actually is—or how genuinely insulting it is to women. When debates fired up across social media over whether or not a certain man who began identifying as a woman could be called a woman about a year ago, I remember one comment in particular. An angry woman demanded to know if a man in a dress - or even a man with a sex change - could understand menstrual cramps, pregnancy, or dozens of other things women experience. The answer, of course, was no. But the woman was pronounced a transphobe anyway, for not affirming that a cross-dresser was just like her. You would think these are valid questions. A short decade or two ago, the insinuation that a biological male physically incapable of livi...

20 Bible statements on homosexuality in response to liberal pastors

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The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah THIS IS A RESPONSE TO BRAD CHILCOTT AND TONY VENN BROWN Old Testament Questions Creation 1. Does the Creation account of Genesis 1 preclude homosexuality when it presents God ’s design for the creation of man and woman in the “image and likeness” of God? The Revisionist Answer The Creation account is concerned solely with reproduction —multiplying and filling the earth. The design of the creation of human beings does not inherently oppose homosexuality as an identity for some people. The Biblical Answer Genesis 1:26–30 testifies that man and woman were made complementarily for each other; together they were made for God and form the image of God. Only the couple, man and woman together, reflects the totality of this divine image. A homosexual couple mirrors only themselves, two males or two females who come together (pp. 31). 2. Does the account of the purpose and plan for marriage in Genesis 2 exclude a homosex...