Catholic high schools are privileged places of personal witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a unique environment for evangelization of questioning adolescents, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education said.
“We cannot ignore the culture – the culture confronts us every day,” Spokane, Washington, Bishop Thomas Daly said. “In many ways, the times we live in are a greater challenge than the early Church.”
Addressing the largest gathering of Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic high school teachers since the onset of the pandemic, the former president, teacher and director of campus ministry of Marin Catholic High School said witness of faith throughout the entire school, not just by religion teachers, is critical.
“Jesus was compassionate always but he did not compromise,” Bishop Daly told the several hundred teachers gathered for the annual Catholic high school convocation, citing the story of the young man who went away sad when he asked what more he could do, and Jesus told him to sell all his possessions and follow him. “Jesus did not alter the message.”
Full story at Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Archbishop Mitty’s teachers and administrators should have been there. They should be made to read the speech. Then they should be made to conform the school and their lives to Catholic doctrine or be fired. Does Bishop Cantu care?
Mitty HS is in the Diocese of San Jose, but you are right in principle.
Amen. It should surprise or offend no one that Bishop Daly, Archbishop Cordileone and others state that Catholic schools should be Catholic.
I expect that Jewish schools are Jewish, Protestant school are Protestant, Muslim schools are Muslim and that Montessori schools follow the Montessori method. It’s simply a matter of truth in advertising and, more broadly and importantly, truth and honesty in general. When I completed my graduate degree at Franciscan University, I expected (and received) a Catholic education. Sadly, I can’t say that about a couple of other “Catholic” universities where I took some classes in theology and pastoral ministry. When I took some classes at Fuller Theological Seminary, which has faculty and students from a broad variety of Christian traditions, I encountered many who don’t share the fullness of the faith with us. Yet, we acknowledged our differences and were respectful of one another. Let’s be honest about what our institutions are and be, by the grace of God, who we claim to be.
Breaking News: the German Synodal Way just has altered Christ’s message.
The ball is now in Pope Francis’ court.
In a March 10th interview (today) Pope Francis spoke of the possibility of a married priesthood, for the Western Church. What, then, does he think of the possibility of married bishops, cardinals– and popes? Pope Francis is undoing all the good work of Pope St. John Paul II and all his predecessors. We desperately need good spiritual leadership from Rome, just like Bishop Daly’s fine leadership– for all aspects of our Catholic Faith.
With the recent actions of the German synod, my personal Catholic doomsday clock moved one minute closer to midnight. It now stands at 11:58.
If my personal doomsday clock reaches midnight, I will quit my low-paying parish job and stop attending Mass.
I will not make more life sacrifices for a corrupt, fraudulent organization that betrays its founder and its founding principles.
There is a difference between being a fool for Christ and being a plain fool.
Keep going to Mass. There is not reason that you should go to hell because you have more faith than the German synod.