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Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark has been working to mediate a settlement between the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in a dispute over an instruction to dismiss a teacher in a same-sex civil marriage, The Pillar has learned.
The archdiocese and the school have been locked in a disagreement over a 2019 decree by Archbishop Charles Thompson, which said the school could no longer call itself Catholic. The archbishop’s decision came after controversy over the employment of a teacher in a same-sex civil marriage.
Brebeuf Jesuit Prepatory School. The Pillar file photo.
Senior Vatican officials close to both the Congregation for Catholic Education and in the Secretariat of State independently confirmed to The Pillar that Cardinal Tobin was asked last year to help mediate between the two parties, after the school appealed the archbishop’s decree in 2019, and received a suspension of the decision while the case is being considered.
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Cardinal Tobin asked to mediate Indy high school standoff
The archdiocese and the school have been locked in a disagreement over a 2019 decree by Archbishop Charles Thompson, which said the school could no longer call itself Catholic. The archbishop’s decision came after controversy over the employment of a teacher in a same-sex civil marriage.
Brebeuf Jesuit Prepatory School. The Pillar file photo.
Senior Vatican officials close to both the Congregation for Catholic Education and in the Secretariat of State independently confirmed to The Pillar that Cardinal Tobin was asked last year to help mediate between the two parties, after the school appealed the archbishop’s decree in 2019, and received a suspension of the decision while the case is being considered.
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Cardinal Tobin asked to mediate Indy high school standoff
