Schools & Youth Archives - Page 79 of 104

Australia's Bishops Use Schoolchildren in New Campaign Against Marriage Equality

June 10, 2015/10 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Ireland's passage of marriage equality has triggered a campaign by Australia's bishops for "the very soul of marriage," wrongly employing educators schoolchildren in Catholic schools as their messengers. Read More

Priest Removed from Seton Hall University Comes Out as Gay

June 3, 2015/9 Comments/in Employment Issues, Higher Education, LGBTQ Clergy & Religious, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Seton Hall University's former chaplain removed recently for his publicly support of the NOH8 campaign has come out as gay, speaking as well about his removal for the first time. Read More

U. of Dallas Student to President: Apologize for Speaker or Admit That LGBT Students Are Unwelcome

May 31, 2015/3 Comments/in Higher Education, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

University of Dallas president Thomas W. Keefe is being asked to apologize for an anti-gay remarks made at the school's commencement ceremony earlier this month. Read More

S.F. Parents and Students Say Revised Teaching Handbook Is Still Problematic

May 26, 2015/1 Comment/in Employment Issues, Hierarchy, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

After months of protest, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has revised the enhanced morality clauses proposed for teaching contracts. These revisions are not quieting tensions in the archdiocese that seem far from resolved. Read More

First Catholic LGBTQ Youth Summit Succeeds Despite Church Ouster

May 20, 2015/1 Comment/in Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Despite being kicked off Catholic property at the last minute, the first LGBTQ+ Catholic Youth Summit successfully took place in Minnesota last Saturday. Read More

Archdiocese of Newark Fires Seton Hall University Chaplain for NOH8 Support

May 18, 2015/7 Comments/in Employment Issues, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Seton Hall University's head of campus ministry has been removed after publicly supporting the NOH8 campaign on social media. Read More

CAMPUS CHRONICLES: LGBT Issues Play a Role in Catholic Colleges' Commencement Ceremonies

May 17, 2015/4 Comments/in Hierarchy, Higher Education, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York is addressing Le Moyne College graduates today with hundreds promising to ignore his speech after asking for Dolan's removal. Read More

LGBT Church Worker Struggles Continue in Court, in Schools, and the Chancery

May 15, 2015/2 Comments/in Employment Issues, Marriage & Family, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Disputes involving church workers and their Catholic employers have been on the rise the last several years as LGBT rights, particularly around marriage, spread. Below, Bondings 2.0 provides updates for recent incidents about which we have reported previously. Read More

Pope Francis Invited to Visit New York's Homeless LGBT Youth

May 12, 2015/1 Comment/in Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Following an open letter published in the New York Times last spring, anti-homelessness advocate Carl Siciliano again wrote to Pope Francis on behalf of the LGBT youth for whom he provides care. Read More

NEWS NOTES: Baptisms, Hermits, Movie, and Protests

May 11, 2015/1 Comment/in Hierarchy, Higher Education, Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Pope Francis, Schools & Youth /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

Here are some items that you might find of interest: 1) At an ordination in Rome,... Read More