Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (Pentecost Sunday update)
Open letter to Cardinal Tobin, re:St Theresa's v Crisitello
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Your Eminence:
I am embarrassed upon learning details of what is being presented as a victory for religious freedom.
In 2014, Ms Crisitello was fired from her teaching job at St Theresa's in Kenilworth. She was pregnant and not yet married.
While the Archdiocese is right to insist upon moral behavior being exemplified by its teachers, there was also plenty of room for mercy. Ms Crisitello should receive back pay.
It appears that you are not as sensitive to the sanctity of pre born human life as most of the New Jersey Catholics whom I know from pro life circles. Your mercy in this situation would speak volumes.
Sincerely,
Joseph Tevington
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Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband of 37 years, a dad to two married adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, geography, history, Italian food, Saturday Night Fever, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
