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Title: Catholic High School Creates ‘Sacred Space’ for Muslim Students to Pray
Source: Breitbart News.com
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...students-pray/
Published: Dec 17, 2015
Author: Thomas D. Williams Phd.
Post Date: 2015-12-17 16:26:12 by Stoner
Keywords: None
Views: 606
Comments: 7

A Michigan Catholic high school run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland is under fire for the creation of a “sacred space” for its Muslim students to worship during school hours.

“We don’t discriminate based on race, creed, color,” said school principal John Birney in defense of his decision to maintain the non-Christian prayer space despite the school’s official Catholic status.

Although the majority of the student body is Catholic, the all-boy Bloomfield Hills school accepts students of other faiths and currently some 12 Muslim boys study there.

Parents of several of the school’s students have protested the measure, with one mother claiming it was “unconscionable” and would undermine her son’s Christian education. Parents pay the school $11,750 in yearly tuition for their children to study in a Catholic environment.

According to local television station WXYZ, “a dozen or so angry parents” have expressed their disapproval of the school’s move to formalize a non-Christian prayer room on a Catholic school’s property.

Birney defends the decision, saying that making accommodation for non-Catholic students is in line with the thinking and teaching at the school, and that “all the Catholic hospitals in town do this.”

“Is [the prayer room] something that compromises our faith and identity, or is it in fact consistent with the respect that we have? We are Catholic in the sense that we share the ‘good news.’ We are not Catholic in the sense, ‘Hey, if you’re not Catholic, don’t bother coming here,’” Birney said.

“When the question was, ‘Is there a place that I can pray?’ the answer that evolved was yes,” he said. “We have this sacred space available for you if you want it.”

Birney also said that Muslim students in the school are required to conform to the Catholic curriculum for all students, and since they respect the Catholic faith the school should respect theirs.

In a statement released last week regarding Muslim immigration and religious liberty, Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron declared: “Fifty years ago, the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council taught that the Catholic Church treats with respect those who practice the religion of Islam. And for these past 50 years, Catholics and Muslims in southeastern Michigan have enjoyed warm relations marked by a spirit of mutual respect and esteem.”

Birney said that a handful of boys use the prayer room on a regular basis, including one Tibetan Buddhist. “I guess the way I would view it, we’re a Catholic school; we continue to teach the Catholic faith and continue to celebrate our faith but we have other faiths here,” he said.

Brother Rice is not the only Catholic school to create a non-Christian prayer space. In 2012, a Catholic high school in Ontario, Canada, created an Islamic prayer room.

A spokesman for the Detroit Archdiocese told the Huffpost in an email that Birney had reached out to them for guidance.

“The Archdiocese of Detroit has provided Brother Rice High School with information in regards to the precedent in the Catholic Church for respecting the religious liberty — including the ability to pray — for non-Christians who are present at a great number of Church institutions worldwide, including schools, universities, hospitals, soup kitchens and shelters,” archdiocesan spokesman Joe Kohn said.

“Such respect for non-Christian people of faith is in keeping with what the Church teaches and what the Church Fathers put forth at the Second Vatican Council,” he said.


This sounds like the hens letting the wolves into the hen house. Smart, right?

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#1. To: Stoner (#0)

“We don’t discriminate based on race, creed, color,” said school principal John Birney

Yes you do. You created a non-Christian praying room, didn't you?

I think I'll mosey over to the local mosque and ask them if they have a Christian praying room.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-12-17   18:19:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: misterwhite (#1)

" I think I'll mosey over to the local mosque and ask them if they have a Christian praying room. "

Yeah, good luck with that. While there, see if you can buy a few blocks of C-4, if they have any to spare. LOL.

Seriously, if my kids were going to school there, I would pull them out real quick. And I think all the parents should do that.

Those Catholics running that school are not playing with a full deck, and are oblivious to reality!

I guess they will be happy when the muzzies cut their "infidel" heads off & put them on stakes in the front yard.

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

There are no Carthaginian terrorists.

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton

Stoner  posted on  2015-12-17   20:18:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Stoner, misterwhite (#2)

I would like to see Islam open up a pray area for other religion any religion.

Justified  posted on  2015-12-17   20:27:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Justified (#3)

" I would like to see Islam open up a pray area for other religion any religion. "

I would suggest you not hold your breath waiting for that.

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

There are no Carthaginian terrorists.

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” - George S. Patton

Stoner  posted on  2015-12-17   20:56:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Stoner (#0)

Catholic High School Creates ‘Sacred Space’ for Muslim Students to Pray

To hell with catholicism.

rlk  posted on  2015-12-18   14:49:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: misterwhite (#1)

“We don’t discriminate based on race, creed, color, organized malice of intent, or corruption” said school principal John Birney

rlk  posted on  2015-12-18   14:55:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: All (#0)

“We don’t discriminate based on race, creed, color,” said school principal John Birney in defense of his decision to maintain the non-Christian prayer space despite the school’s official Catholic status.

This is flat out bowing to pc over Islam!

Islam the new "new religion" of piss that if we only understood it and lived by their ways how the world would be so much better. Oh but we still get to keep our own religion just in case it doesn't work out! In fact if we would just all become Moslem, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Atheist and whatever at once there would be rainbows for everyone! Well as long as we allow for the LBGT in our religion! Because thats where the real tolerance comes from not religion under evil gods who demands that we live under his rules! We know its a he because women would never demand you follow their rules!!

Justified  posted on  2015-12-18   17:03:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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