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The chickens are coming flapping home.<\/p>\n

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And it turns out that these chickens walk on two legs and have roosting habits that are nothing more than mob action.<\/p>\n

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Catholic education\u2019s easy bargain of don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell concerning dissent against Church teachings and morality has coalesced into \u201coutrage\u201d from parents and students when high schools try to teach and enforce Church teachings. Consider this<\/a>, this<\/a>\u00a0and this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bishops, when faced with these angry mobs have turned to the time-honored bureaucratic practice of court-martial-the-private\/fire-the-secretary\/shoot-the-messenger. Sister Mary Tracy<\/a> resigned in Seattle. Sister Jane Dominic Laurel<\/a> took a sabbatical in North Carolina. Father Rocky Hoffman hasn\u2019t been cashiered the way the nuns were, but he has been properly apologized for to the mob<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The response to angry mobs demanding that Catholic schools not teach Catholic teaching has been to wave the white flag and toss the hapless offender who committed the crime of doing what the Church says we should all do under the bus.<\/p>\n

It appears that our Catholic schools have become something other than what we thought they were. I keep wondering, are they nothing except a place for well-to-do people to send their kids in order to avoid the public schools? Is there no moral component to Catholic education these days?<\/p>\n

And what about these bishops? Are\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>of them capable of being stand up guys? I don\u2019t have any sympathy with the bishops about this court-martial\/fire\/shoot and then-cut-and-run routine they\u2019re doing. If the bishop runs away, the people will be lost.<\/p>\n

If every Catholic who believes what the Church teaches gets thrown under the bus for being politically incorrect enough to say so in public, we\u2019re going to need a lot bigger bus.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/8gciFoEbOA8<\/a>\n

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