Bishop Martino criticized by the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church
Dear Bishop Martino,
Members of the board of Directors of the ARCC have observed your public proclamation of what appears to be the absolute finality of your decison about the teachers' union in the Catholic Schools of Scranton.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/episode-no-1211/cover-catholic-church-and-labor/1322/
We judge such unmitigated certainty is highly irregular for a servant of the people of the Church and is more indicative of a dictator or absolute monarch. We urge you to reconsider this intransigent position as unfitting, arrogant, and a scandal to your people. Should you in conscience not be able to back down from this absolute position, might you ponder if perhaps the time has come for you to allow a more pastoral-minded administrator to deal with this situation? Surely you must be aware of the harm this is causing to the Church of Scranton. Fear of what you perceived to be the results of compromise seems to have blinded you to its consequences.
Your resistance to the teaching of the Church on the right to collective bargaining, even though sanctioned by the Vatican, can be viewed as what you believe to be a threat to the Church. Might your trust in your people and the Holy Spirit be somewhat in question, resulting in your fearful and unbending position?
Dear bishop, please prayerfully reconsider you stance on this for the good of the Church. The slings and arrows that you have endured testify to your constancy. Do not let them harden your heart, but without fear open the door again to negotiation with your people and share the burden of continuing Catholic education with them. They are sons and daughters of God as you, and they are probably more interested in the survival of Catholic schools than you are. Your will against their survival will not prevail.
Please rethink your understanding of the will of God on this matter.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Robert Schutzius, Ph.D., Secretary
ARCC
Members of the board of Directors of the ARCC have observed your public proclamation of what appears to be the absolute finality of your decison about the teachers' union in the Catholic Schools of Scranton.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/episode-no-1211/cover-catholic-church-and-labor/1322/
We judge such unmitigated certainty is highly irregular for a servant of the people of the Church and is more indicative of a dictator or absolute monarch. We urge you to reconsider this intransigent position as unfitting, arrogant, and a scandal to your people. Should you in conscience not be able to back down from this absolute position, might you ponder if perhaps the time has come for you to allow a more pastoral-minded administrator to deal with this situation? Surely you must be aware of the harm this is causing to the Church of Scranton. Fear of what you perceived to be the results of compromise seems to have blinded you to its consequences.
Your resistance to the teaching of the Church on the right to collective bargaining, even though sanctioned by the Vatican, can be viewed as what you believe to be a threat to the Church. Might your trust in your people and the Holy Spirit be somewhat in question, resulting in your fearful and unbending position?
Dear bishop, please prayerfully reconsider you stance on this for the good of the Church. The slings and arrows that you have endured testify to your constancy. Do not let them harden your heart, but without fear open the door again to negotiation with your people and share the burden of continuing Catholic education with them. They are sons and daughters of God as you, and they are probably more interested in the survival of Catholic schools than you are. Your will against their survival will not prevail.
Please rethink your understanding of the will of God on this matter.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Robert Schutzius, Ph.D., Secretary
ARCC
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