“As a multicultural school, the flags represent the inclusion and respect of all people. In a prepared response to McManus’ decree, Nativity School President Thomas McKenney said the flags will continue to fly while the school appeals the bishop’s decision. School officials say they’ve kept the flags raised since January 2021 after students called on them to express support making “our communities more just and inclusive.”
“As Diocesan Bishop, it is my sacred duty and inherent responsibility to determine when a school claiming to be ‘Catholic’ is acting in such a way that is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church and disregards my legitimate authority as the guardian and overseer of Catholic education in the Diocese of Worcester,” McManus wrote in his decree.įounded in 2003, the Nativity School is an accredited, tuition-free, all-boys school mainly serving students of color from low-income communities. Reilly’s name from its list of board of trustees. The Nativity School also cannot conduct fundraisers involving diocesan institutions and must remove former Bishop Daniel P. Offering a ‘liberative tradition’ at a Cambridge church in the face of anti-LGBTQ discriminationīoston Archdiocese To Launch First New Catholic School In Half A Century - Online Worcester Diocese calls on school to take down Black Lives Matter, gay pride flags
