Last week, Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson declared that Brebeuf Jesuit High School is no longer a Catholic school.
In 2017, Brebeuf discovered that one of its teachers had entered a same-sex "marriage." After learning of this, Archbishop Thompson requested that the school conform to canon law by including in its employment contracts a clause requiring teachers to live according to Catholic teaching. The school, run by the Midwest Province of Jesuits, subsequently refused to include such a clause. Thompson has now declared that the school "can no longer use the name Catholic and will no longer be identified or recognized as a Catholic institution by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis." By refusing to honor the archbishop's request, Brebeuf High School has chosen to place itself outside of full communion with the Church.
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