A diocesan high school in San Jose, Archbishop Mitty High, has named Latanya Nailah Hilton, a supporter of abortion and homosexual “marriage,” as its new president. Bishop Oscar Cantú of San Jose said in a November 10 statement that the appointment, effective July first of next year, has his “full blessing and support.”
Hilton is “founding ambassador” of The Ambassadors Circle, a San Francisco-based media and marketing corporation. The company supports liberal issues and businesses divided into what it calls “passion areas”: Arts & Culture, Criminal Justice Reform, Democracy, Environmental Crisis, Equality & Equity, Health & Wellness, Next Generation, Our Local Community, and Science & Technology. Its motto is “Do More Good.”
“The stakes are high for present and future generations with many agreeing that the current state of the world is pretty much a cluster. Feeling led to do something, The Ambassadors Circle, LLC was founded as a membership collective based on the belief that each of us wields some degree of influence,” the membership page of the website states. “After conversations with changemakers, influencers and culture creators, we found the common theme was the need for more of us to use our influence to inspire each other to take meaningful action.”
Among its many social media posts encouraging actions such as avoiding the use of plastic, supporting gun control, and voting Democrat, the Circle also celebrated “50 years of #pridemonth” and “#marriageequality” in a June 28 Facebook post and in May 2019 shared an article with ways to help protect and promote abortion. “The past year has seen the worrying rise of extreme anti-abortion legislation across the country…This attack on women’s health care is scary. But we can help the women in these states while NARAL and the ACLU take these state governments to court,” the post read. The article suggests donating to abortion funds and volunteering as an abortion clinic escort.
The Circle’s statement on Hilton’s appointment to Mitty High says she will also “remain an integral part of the Founding Circle and provide ongoing strategic direction to the organization.”
After California Catholic Daily contacted the Circle to ask about Hilton’s appointment to a Catholic school while also leading an organization that endorses what the Church teaches are intrinsic evils, the Circle’s recent Facebook and Twitter posts promoting abortion and homosexual marriage were deleted.
Other social media posts still up at press time include an article from Planned Parenthood in honor of Trans Awareness Week about how be gender-inclusive in speech, Planned Parenthood’s YouTube video introducing Leana Wen, ways to help elect Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia, and an invitation to an event hosted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
“Ms. Hilton is a recognized leader in education and social justice advocacy with a passion for Catholic education and its power to develop leaders who will impact the world for good,” Bishop Cantu said in a press release. “She brings a wealth of experience, energy, and commitment to collaboration to this position. She has received numerous awards for her service.”
“Ms. Hilton’s appointment is a public scandal,” a Mitty High alumnus who wishes to remain anonymous told Cal Catholic. “The facts show she has a warped vision of what the ‘good’ is. It isn’t a Catholic one. It is one that fundamentally disqualifies her from being the president of a Catholic institution”
Representatives at the bishop’s office and Archbishop Mitty High School did not respond to requests for comment.
This story is a California Catholic Daily exclusive by Mary Rose.
Thank you Mary Rose for the wonderful, revealing article. As a relatively recent alumnus myself, I can attest to this appointment as an absolute travesty and a mere representation of Archbishop Mitty’s continued, decades-long divergence from the Catholic faith.
Yes, thank you, Mary Rose. It is all quite interesting, but not totally unexpected. Now we know.
By saying it was not totally unexpected, I meant there must be a reason why Bishop Olmstead is being sent.
Another reason for the Vatican to investigate this bishop. He has completely lost the plot.
This is so sad. And, to think that Bishop Thomas Daly was the auxiliary bishop here not long ago. Catholic schools will not change until bishops are willing to terminate and not hire those who dissent from the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Maybe you want to let your bishop know when you get your next appeal for money, especially for “Catholic education.”
Thank you for this expose. This should torpedo Ms. Hilton’s appointment, or she should gracefully withdraw. Did no one on Mitty’s board of directors or search committee bother to ask her questions or research Ms. Hilton’s past and her ideological commitments that don’t square with Catholic faith or education? Did Bishop Cantu not bother to investigate or not appoint someone to investigate her background? Either they didn’t or — what would be worse — they knew full well what she stands for and offered her the job anyway. The fact that Ms. Hilton is now trying to delete and cover up her immoral, left-wing past shows how deceitful she is. Isn’t she proud of her past commitments and support of abortion and homosexual marriage? I used to teach at Mitty, and this hire comes as no surprise to me, except that it’s quite a huge step down from what was already an abysmal lack of Catholic commitment and identity there under the former Principal/President, Tim Brosnan. Of course, now the diocese and school can’t rescind the job offer because that would be “racist” and “sexist” or something like that. She’s already signed a contract, no doubt, but perhaps she’ll be given monetary “consideration” to back out of the contract if the bishop comes to his senses and realizes he can’t have a pro-abort, pro-gay president of his Catholic school. It’s happened there before. The optics on this are so embarrassing to Bishop Cantu and the Mitty Board of Directors. They thought they had won the woke diversity lottery by hiring a black woman; now they have to explain how a pro-abort, pro-homosexual marriage militant is going to be president of a Catholic high school. Ha! Bishop Cantu really stepped in it this time. His own fault for not doing due diligence as a competent manager would.
This happens all the time in parts of California. A married couple (heterosexual) will hire a realtor to sell their house whom they do not know really well, and all of a sudden the person they first dealt with will bring in a male family member who is openly “married’ to another guy and insist they want the two to help sell the house as openly “married”. The religious couple will not agree to that, so money is scammed out of them, so they can back out of the deal and have someone they trust sell their home. One should know a realtor well and insist in the contract that he/she alone deal with the actual presentation.
I agree with the comment below, “Keep up the pressure on the school and the bishop. Get answers! The faithful deserve answers!” I recently stumbled on all that has happened with Mitty in the last 15 years, funny how this comment stuck a nerve. I too would like answers. Seems like anything you research with Mitty’s questionable past, morals, abuse, student neglect, diversity both race and gender related is buried by nonsense.
Keep up the pressure on the school and the bishop. Get answers! The faithful deserve answers! If they’re so proud and confident about this woman, why are they clamming up when asked direct, simple questions about how someone like her, with her support for abortion and gay marriage, is qualified to be president of a Catholic school? This won’t go away. They won’t be able to sweep it under the rug.
In these times, my guess is they didn’t look much beyond color and gender of applicants. Affirmative action, “antiracism” hiring policies, and diversity quotas run amok. They needed to check off some diversity boxes in HR, so she rose to the top of the list.
Did you try to contact Ms. Hilton herself?
Wow… I hope this gets national attention from National Catholic Register or ChurchMilitant and they hound Bishop Cantu until he answers for this. This dreck and filth and corruption in the church are unbelievable and need to be exposed to shame those in charge.
If Bishop Cantu does not immediately nix this appointment after this revelation, he will not be fit to be bishop of San Jose nor anywhere for that matter. How could he show his face or preach or have any teaching credibility at all if the new leader of his diocesan high school, whom he has publicly endorsed and praised, publicly supports abortion and gay marriage? Might as well have Planned Parenthood and the Human Rights Campaign come to speak to the students. Maybe Ms. Hilton is planning on that. Now we’ll see whether Bishop Cantu is made of anything strong.
Here’s how you understand how this happened. Bishop Cantu has almost nothing to do with the operation of the high school. He leaves that up to the lay administration. He trusted their judgment. He doesn’t know what goes on at that school. The lay administration is driven by money and sports and image. Image suffered this past summer when there were allegations of decades-long, entrenched racism at the school by former students. That scared the administration to its core, which is almost entirely white and very susceptible to guilt trip manipulation by vocal minority interests at the school, and they had emergency meetings and revamped their equity, justice and inclusion policies to become more antiracist and they brought in guest speakers to help revamp the English curriculum to add antiracist literature. So for damage control they gave the job of school president to the person you see pictured, with obvious color and gender qualifications that would help put out the fire of the image crisis. That was supposed to cool things down and prove that Mitty is progressive and not racist. It seemed to work because all the local papers and news media touted how groundbreaking and progressive Mitty was to name its first black woman president. The whole religion and campus ministry faculty are a bunch of Democrats who teach globalism and environmentalism and whatever the latest LGBT, Marxist, social justice intersectionality fads are. Their curriculum in religion has almost nothing to do with Catholic faith. They don’t adhere to the national bishops’ curriculum for high school religion. Teachers openly say the Church’s doctrine is wrong and should change. Their liturgies are secular rock concerts at which students “preach” the homilies (oh, yes they do) that consist entirely of touchy-feely liberal platitudes. Faculty members are in publicly known same-sex marriages. There’s hardly a person on that campus who is genuinely Catholic and knowledgeable about Catholic faith. They are all Joe Biden cultural Catholics there. That’s how this happened. They really didn’t see anything wrong at all with hiring a black woman who supports abortion to lead a Catholic school because that’s the kind of culture the school has already, and that’s what they teach to students. I suppose it’s good that Bishop Cantu finally knows now what’s going on at Mitty. He has some work to do.
Like this person said… the current bishop doesn’t know much of anything about the school. That doesn’t excuse Bishop Cantu from approving someone with Mrs. Hilton’s views to lead a Catholic school. But most blame lies with Mr. Brosnan, who just retired as president of the school. He oversaw three decades of Catholic and spiritual decay during his tenure as principal and president of Mitty, and he cultivated the culture of ignorant, dismissive catholicism-lite and liberal social justice that pervades every aspect of Mitty today. Brosnan’s religion was sports and money. The people who recommended Mrs. Hilton to the bishop were basing their decision on what would fit in the type of phony catholic school that Tim Brosnan created over thirty years or so. When I graduated, I resented how the students of color got to wear stoles of ethnic (Hispanic and African) fabrics and colors during the graduation ceremony. But I was not allowed to wear anything over my graduation gown that celebrated my Irish heritage because that was white culture. I don’t donate to my alma mater. The announcement of Mrs. Hilton’s appointment confirms me in my decision not to support Mitty.
But I was not allowed to wear anything over my graduation gown that celebrated my Irish heritage
Shoulda done it anyway….
A religion teacher and deacon promotes gay marriage.
Couldn’t agree more Megan. I’d take it as far to suggest that this school should revoke association with the diocese, return any diocesan assets and commit to its secular identity; rather than the alternative, which is to decry and mock the Catholic faith through its profession of “embracing the Catholic educational mission.”
The diocese owns the school and the land. If the diocese were honest it would sell the school or merge it with Harker Academy across the freeway and give up any pretense of being Catholic.
Megan…But if they claim to be “Catholic”, even thought they are independent, he is Bishop. Many years ago I complained about the curriculum in my son’s HS and at first they dismissed it. But then I wrote to the the head of the education dept. and some underling again dismissed. I again fired back (thank God the secretary was out on sick leave) and the Bishop in charge of education read it. Whether anything was really accomplished only God knows but you have to fight this. I was alone in this so it was hard. Today I think more people would be willing to take it on.
Man, I went to Mitty and I was repelled from Christianity because of the heresy they taught there. Luckily, I found Roosh V and converted to Orthodoxy in my senior year (I can’t wait to be baptized!). Your description, Megan, as to what goes on at the school is pretty accurate: I never knew there were “married” sodomites in the facility (no good, especially around kids)! All these fundamental issues with the school are doing a huge disservice for our Lord Jesus Christ, teaching blasphemous things like “the Bible is just metaphor” and spreading lies that Christ wants “social justice”: a euphemism for marxism, which is the fruit of Christ-deniers (do NOT trust the fruit of a bad tree). They even would utilize their school fundraiser in defaming former President Trump out of sheer vile hatred (funny because the school teaches “love” (sodomy) as a virtue, yet they can’t love their own enemy (he ain’t *my* enemy though!)). I am glad that I got the best out of that school that I could, but I’d *never* send my children (God willing I have some) to that school, or to any other school that isn’t operated by the Orthodox Church. God bless all of you!
Apparently we no longer have a Roman Catholic Church as we no longer have any standards to live by.
For anyone saying the Bp. didn’t know what was going on at Mitty…spare me….embattled, marginalized parents at that school wrote reams of complaints to the Diocese…30 years of being dismissed and ignored means children that don’t practice any faith, let alone materialist Catholicism and parents who threw their hands up…at least their kids will be comfortable on their road to perdition.
Bishop Cantu can’t be held responsible for his predecessor’s, Bishop McGrath’s, failures to correct Mitty’s drift from Catholic faith. Bishop Cantu can and should be held responsible for his own negligence, omissions, oversights, inaction and failures to correct what is now his responsibility for managing a school that is under his direct authority. He cannot claim ignorance any longer, and this decision is directly his. They’ll probably find a way out of this by cutting her a big check to go away quietly. Maybe we’ll see a statement like, “Because I don’t want my presence at Mitty to be a distraction from learning and community building, I have decided to pursue other interests.” We’ll know what went on behind the scenes.
A disgrace to Bp. Cantu. This fake “Catholic” school is a horrendous moral and spiritual danger to the students– it should be closed, and the “Catholic” title and the name of Abp. Mitty should be removed. Will the Catholic Church end up with some sort of “revolution,” or “split”– because the poor, suffering, authentic Catholic laymen and clergy are so sick of these kinds of evil persecutions? Laymen work very hard, with many sacrifices, to have the money to send their kids to Catholic school, for the Faith– what a horrible thing to do to Catholic parents and their kids.
The smoke of Satan has entered the Church.
Why does Bp. Cantu even bother to attend USCCB convocations?? He ignores everything they say they stand for. And even puts up a huge statement of congratulations to this terribly wrong Catholic high school president, right on the front page of his Diocesan website. Shocking. What are his Catholic school parents supposed to think?? That the Diocese now supports promiscuity, contraception and Abortion, gay sex acts and gay “marriage,” and the “LGBT agenda,” and teaches all of this to their kids, in the Diocesan Catholic schools?
If there isn’t a retraction issued within two weeks (give them some time because of the Thanksgiving holiday), if she ultimately gets to keep the job, then Mitty and Bishop Cantu are complete frauds.
What an utter disgrace. Shame on Bishop Cantu and shame on Hilton.
Will Mitty students be able to fulfill their service hours requirements at the local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic or by marching in the Gay Pride Parade?
We have officially spent our last donation to Mitty…
My grandchildren will never attend this school after two of our daughters graduated from Mitty.
So disappointing…the liberal agenda has taken over the Catholic Church. Money talks…you’ll never receive another dime.Good luck with raising money for this school.
What would the 18+ million aborted babies have to say about this? I wonder if they would have allowed this woman to teach the babies who survived abortion at Archbishop Mitty HS. Those of you who send your $$ to Mitty – turn off the spigot. Money talks. Evidently murder doesn’t.
So… looks like this is going through after all. Shame on Bishop Cantu. Shame on the entire diocese and everyone who had a role in this decision.
How do you know? Any updates?
She started the job. Archbishop Mitty High School is now officially uncatholic. Bishop Cantu is officially derelict in his duty.
I went to Mitty c/o 2002 and I think this is wonderful.
No doubt you do, honey.