New Website

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Fort Wayne- South Bend Does It Again

Well, it seems that the Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend, IN has once again used it muscle to take away the livelihood of one of it's employees. The person in charge of the food service department and cafeteria at Marian High School in Mishawaka, IN has lost her job of 9 years, which has brought an annual profit to the school of approximately a quarter million US Dollars each year, because she would not renounce her membership in the Polish National Catholic Church. Ms. Nan Gilbert (her name is still, as of this writing, on the Marian website) has personally contacted me about this situation and it is outrageous. This is total and utter religious discrimination that obviously comes from the top-down-- Bishop John M. D'Arcy. Bishop D'Arcy has run roughshod over employment law with diocesan employees for over 20 years, from keeping out a teacher's union to forcing people to sign less favorable contracts when the previous ones were still in effect to firing people due to their strongly held religious convictions.

She is a member of the Polish National Catholic Church, and according to the 2006 Joint Declaration on Unity, there should be no proselytism among members of the two sister churches. So, not only has D'Arcy broken State and Federal discrimination laws, he has also broken a concordat signed by the leaders of both the Roman Catholic and Polish National Catholic Churches which was brought about as a result of a dialogue started at the request of the late Pope John Paul II in 1982 (official meetings having begun in 1984). The biannual meetings can be seen here.

So, not only does Bishop D'Arcy fully support LifeTeen and it's pedophilic bent, but he also breaks the Roman Catholic Canons (see Canon 844, paragraphs 2-3) and the results of years of ecumenical dialogue. In doing this, he shows that he has no regard for people who give their lives for the school and a church that is not even their own.