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The problems that Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in San Francisco is having in getting ALL of the teachers who will teach in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese in the school year 2015-2016 to sign the revised contract form, are the same problems every bishop will have in requiring all those teachers who are presently employed in the school year 2014-2015 to sign a new contract, as all teachers must do at this time of the year, if the new contract form contains language more strictly interpreting the Church’s requirement that their conduct outside of the classroom conform to the Church’s moral and doctrinal code.
The problem could be minimized with NEW HIRES if the prospective new teacher were required to orally take the Oath of Fidelity prescribed by Saint John Paul II [see the text of the Oath below] and then sign the Oath. If a prospective teacher were to refuse to take the Oath that person should not be hired to teach in a Catholic school since parents have a right to be assured that their children will not be taught by teachers who do not, in the external forum, conduct themselves fully in accord with the Church’s moral code and doctrines.
The problem in San Francisco and everywhere else, in Church institutions, in secular institutions, in business, etc. is the same when EXISTING employees are asked to sign an annual contract that has been significantly changed from last year’s contract with the addition of phrases and clauses that could easily be invoked as a basis for termination of employment.
In the case of Catholic schools that is certainly a problem for non-Catholic teachers who are presently employed in a Catholic school and most Catholic schools have a few or many such teachers.
In the past this was perhaps not a great problem, but with the every growing intrusion of the Federal Government into all aspects of our lives, the growing cases of litigation brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the Federal Government represent a danger of further suppression of religious freedom.
The laxity of dioceses in the past in making certain that only qualified (in every sense of that word in the context of the Faith) teachers teach in our Catholic schools is the source of the present problem for many dioceses as the society in which the Church lives and exercises its teaching mission grows more and more corrupt.
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| PROFESSION OF FAITH and THE OATH OF FIDELITY ON ASSUMING AN OFFICE TO BE EXERCISED IN THE NAME OF THE CHURCH |
| Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith |
| As conforming to Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio Ad Tuendam Fidem, this Profession of Faith and Oath of Fidelity supercedes the Profession and Oath of 1989. I. PROFESSION OF FAITHI, N., with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the Symbol of faith: namely:I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation, he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.With firm faith, I also believe everything contained in the Word of God, whether written or handed down in Tradition, which the Church, either by a solemn judgement or by the ordinary and universal Magisterium, sets forth to be believed as divinely revealed. I also firmly accept and hold each and everything definitively proposed by the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals. Moreover, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman pontiff or the College of Bishops enunciate when they exercise their authentic Magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim these teachings by a definitive act. (Formula to be used by the Christian faithful mentioned in Canon 833, nn. 5-8) I, N., in assuming the office of __________, promise that in my words and in my actions I shall always preserve communion with the Catholic Church. With great care and fidelity I shall carry out the duties incumbent on me toward the Church, both universal and particular, in which, according to the provisions of the law, I have been called to exercise my service. In fulfilling the charge entrusted to me in the name of the Church, I shall hold fast to the deposit of faith in its entirety; I shall faithfully hand it on and explain it, and I shall avoid any teachings contrary to it. I shall follow and foster the common discipline of the entire Church and I shall maintain the observance of all ecclesiastical laws, especially those contained in the Code of Canon Law. With Christian obedience I shall follow what the Bishops, as authentic doctors and teachers of the faith, declare, or what they, as those who govern the Church, establish. I shall also faithfully assist the diocesan Bishops, so that the apostolic activity, exercised in the name and by mandate of the Church, may be carried out in communion with the Church. So help me God, and God’s Holy Gospels on which I place my hand. (Variations in the fourth and fifth paragraphs of the formulary, for use by those members of the Christian faithful indicated in can. 833, n. 8). I shall foster the common discipline of the entire Church and I shall insist on the observance of all ecclesiastical laws, especially those contained in the Code of Canon Law. With Christian obedience I shall follow what the Bishops, as authentic doctors and teachers of the faith, declare, or what they, as those who govern the Church, establish. I shall also — with due regard for the character and purpose of my institute — faithfully assist the diocesan Bishops, so that the apostolic activity, exercised in the name and by mandate of the Church, may be carried out in communion with the Church. NOTE: Canon 833, Nos. 5-8 obliges the following to make the profession of faith: vicars general, episcopal vicars and judicial vicars; “at the beginning of their term of office, pastors, the rector of a seminary and the professors of theology and philosophy in seminaries; those to be promoted to the diaconate”; “the rectors of an ecclesiastical or Catholic university at the beginning of the rector’s term of office”; and, “at the beginning of their term of office, teachers in any universities whatsoever who teach disciplines which deal with faith or morals”; and “superiors in clerical religious institutes and societies of apostolic life in accord with the norm of the constitutions.” |
| Taken from: L’Osservatore Romano Weekly Edition in English 15 July 1998, page 3 |
| L’Osservatore Romano is the newspaper of the Holy See. The Weekly Edition in English is published for the US by: |
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Activists running out of students
Kids barely outnumber adults at SF anti-Catholic schools rally
On March 12, in front of San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral a group gathered to protest against the new initiative of the archdiocese of San Francisco, which insists that teachers and staff at archdiocesan high schools not publicly take positions in opposition to the Church. The event was covered by both KPIX TV, San Francisco’s CBS affiliate, and NBC News Bay Area. KPIX headlined its coverage: “San Francisco Catholic Students Slam Morality Clauses In Latest Protest, Say Archbishop Is Out Of Step.” NBC’s headline was “Students Protest SF Archbishop Morality Clause.”
But video and photographs from the protest show the headline to be misleading. Of the approximately 3,000 students at the four Catholic High Schools involved, there were only about 35 students at the event—CBS was forced to pad their coverage with video of students at a similar demonstration that took place on Ash Wednesday. At least a third of those in attendance at the event were not students (unless high schools are now teaching ladies with gray hair and men whose hair has waved goodbye) but activist adults.
Among the adults present was Brian Cahill, now a writer for the National Catholic Reporter, and a long-time opponent of the Church over issue of sodomy. Cahill is an ex-executive director of San Francisco’s Catholic Charities, and it was under his directorship that Catholic Charities embarked on its disastrous partnership with the city of San Francisco and Family Builders. That partnership mandated Catholic Charities, by law, to “Increasing the number of children adopted by lesbian / gay / bisexual / transgender adults.”
Another adult non-student, who managed to be interviewed by both CBS and NBC Bay Area, was a man named Erick Orantes. Orantes’ Linkedin page indicates he is an employee of the city and county of San Francisco. In 2009, he worked as an intern for pro-abortion, pro same-sex-marriage Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. In 2012, Orantes was a member of Catholic University Students for Choice and was one of a number of Catholic students who spoke at the National Press Club in favor of the Obama administration’s contraception mandate—a policy which would have required employers to violate their conscience.
One young man interviewed by NBC Bay Area was Daniel Kahn. NBC did not indicate whether or not he was a student. Kahn thought the archbishop’s initiative made sense “On the grounds that it is a Catholic school and they adhere to Catholic teaching, I would say it has to fall in parallelism with Catholic Church doctrine.”
The rally was promoted on the” #teachacceptance” Facebook page. The lead post on the page at the time of this writing was an article from the New York Times, titled: “Unraveling the Church Ban on Gay Sex,” subheaded: “The time has come for the Roman Catholic Church to rethink its claim that homosexual behavior is immoral. Here’s how.”
ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 
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