{"id":1520589,"date":"2022-06-17T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520589"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T15:49:13","slug":"blasts-scandalous-message-bishop-bans-catholic-school-flying-blm-pride-flags-from-calling-itself-catholic-celebrating-mass-sacraments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blasts-scandalous-message-bishop-bans-catholic-school-flying-blm-pride-flags-from-calling-itself-catholic-celebrating-mass-sacraments\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasts \u2018Scandalous Message\u2019: Bishop Bans Catholic School Flying BLM, Pride Flags From Calling Itself Catholic, Celebrating Mass, Sacraments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblasts-scandalous-message-bishop-bans-catholic-school-flying-blm-pride-flags-from-calling-itself-catholic-celebrating-mass-sacraments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Massachusetts Catholic bishop who has denounced a local Catholic private school for flying the Black Lives Matter and gay pride flags has now prohibited it from identifying itself as a Catholic school and banned it from using the title \u201cCatholic\u201d to describe itself.<\/p>\n<p>In early April, Robert J. McManus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/worcesterdiocese.org\/bishops-office\">Bishop<\/a> of\u00a0the Diocese of Worcester, <a href=\"https:\/\/worcesterdiocese.org\/news\/statement-on-nativity-school\">harshly criticized<\/a> the Nativity School in Worcester, writing that \u201cthe flag with the emblem Black Lives Matter has at times been coopted by some factions which also instill broad-brush distrust of police and those entrusted with enforcing our laws. We do not teach that in our schools. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, while we teach that everyone is created in the image and likeness of God, gay pride flags are often used to stand in contrast to consistent Catholic teaching that sacramental marriage is between a man and a woman,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, McManus published his <a href=\"https:\/\/worcesterdiocese.org\/news\/bishop-issues-decree-on-nativity-school\">decree<\/a>, writing, \u201cI publicly stated in an open letter dated, May 4, 2022, that \u2018these symbols (flags) embody specific agendas or ideologies (that) contradict Catholic social and moral teaching.\u2019 It is my contention that the \u2018Gay Pride\u2019 flag represents support of gay marriage and actively living a LGBTQ+ lifestyle.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is also true of \u2018Black Lives Matter,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cThe Catholic Church teaches that all life is sacred and the Church certainly stands unequivocally behind the phrase \u2018black lives matter\u2019 and strongly affirms that all lives matter.\u00a0 However, the \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 movement has co-opted the phrase and promotes a platform that directly contradicts Catholic social teaching on the importance and role of the nuclear family and seeks to disrupt the family structure in clear opposition to the teachings of the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing and scandalous message to the public about the Church\u2019s stance on these important moral and social issues,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<p>After citing Catholic canon law and an \u201cInstruction\u201d recently published by the Holy See through the Dicastery for Catholic Education, McManus declared, \u201cAs Diocesan Bishop, it is my sacred duty and inherent responsibility to determine when a school claiming to be \u2018Catholic\u2019 is acting in such a way that is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church and disregards my legitimate authority as the guardian and overseer of Catholic education in the Diocese of Worcester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite my insistence that the school administration remove these flags because of the confusion and the properly theological scandal that they do and can promote, they refuse to do so. This leaves me no other option but to take canonical action,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nativity School of Worcester is prohibited from this time forward from identifying itself as a \u2018Catholic\u2019 school and may no longer use the title \u2018Catholic\u2019 to describe itself,\u201d he decreed. \u201cMass, sacraments and sacramentals are no longer permitted to be celebrated on Nativity School premises or be sponsored by Nativity School in any church building or chapel within the Diocese of Worcester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school remains defiant. \u201cNativity said it will appeal the bishop\u2019s decision \u2014 but it has no plans to remove the flags, which it said show its commitment to solidarity with its students and families.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2022\/06\/16\/school-blm-lgbtq-flags-not-catholic\/\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts Catholic bishop who has denounced a local Catholic private school for flying the Black Lives Matter and gay pride flags has now prohibited it from identifying itself as a Catholic school and banned it from using the title \u201cCatholic\u201d to describe itself. In early April, Robert J. McManus, the Bishop of\u00a0the Diocese of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1520722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}