{"id":2793,"date":"2006-04-22T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/violins-please.html"},"modified":"2006-04-22T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T09:19:37","slug":"violins-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/violins-please.html","title":{"rendered":"Violins, please"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a story in Canada’s National Post about the priest who established his own church and was excommunicated<\/a><\/p>\n

Note the lede:<\/p>\n

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This is a story about two men, co-workers in a large international organization, who have each decided to stand by their principles and suffer the ensuing fallout.<\/p>\n

One man, 56, has lost his job, his salary, his home, and has been formally ostracized from the community which he has called home for two decades and which he still professes to love deeply.<\/p>\n

The other man is his 67-year-old boss, who may become the fall guy for upholding the wishes of the organization for which he has worked for most of his life and whose rules he champions with dedication and a passion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The lack of understanding of Roman Catholic theology and ecclesiology is breathtaking, if not surprising. As if the Church’s teaching on the ordination of women were just the deeply held personal beliefs of JP2 and B16. As if the Roman Catholic Church normally lets priests break away and form their own parishes in the normal course of things. There’s more, and it’s the old "We don’t get religion" media song, but what interested me, further down in the article, were the nuggets about the impact of this on Catholic schools:<\/p>\n

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In this current scandal, the scrutiny is now broadening to take in all of those who follow Fr. Cachia, including whether the Catholic teachers who choose to attend his church will suffer sanctions or consequences in their employment.<\/p>\n

"This really is uncharted territory for everybody," says Donna Marie Kennedy, president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association. "We don’t know where all of this is going … The Church is in a situation that’s evolving and no one knows where that leaves us."<\/p>\n

Because Catholic school boards reserve what is called a denominational right, which allows them to discriminate in hiring only Roman Catholics, and because Fr. Cachia’s church has been decreed as schismatic, or outside of the official Church, then those who attend his church — most of them lifelong Catholics — could be considered not Catholic.<\/p>\n

The fear has sent teachers scrambling — so skittish, in fact, that they called in provincial union executives for a meeting to help clarify their concerns about being dismissed for associating with the renegade faithful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh…and isn’t "renegade faithful" a bit of an oxymoron? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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