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Tom Deignan @irishcentral May 18,2014
It couldn’t last forever.
Sure, things were giddy for awhile. Pope Francis certainly seemed to have the stuff of a rock star pope. No wonder he was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine!
But for all the cool things he said, there was still a church to run, a church to drag – perhaps kicking and screaming – into the 21st century.
Well, the dragging has begun. And so has the kicking and screaming.
Over in Cincinnati, the lay organization Voice of the Faithful, which rose to prominence in the wake of the horrors of the sex abuse scandals, has taken on a new battle. The group has paid for numerous billboards throughout the Ohio city asking: “Would Pope Francis Sign the New Catholic Teacher Contract?”
The city’s 2,000-plus teachers have been asked to sign an expanded contract which ensures that in and out of the classroom – in their private lives – they maintain rigid adherence to Catholic doctrine.
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