Teacher’s firing by Catholic school contradicts

Re: “Teacher fired from Catholic school,” Feb. 7 news story

I grew up attending Catholic schools through high school. I thought we were taught that God is all-knowing and all-loving of everyone, no matter their race or sexual orientation. That is the God I choose to believe in. But how ironic that the Catholic Church continues to be so self-righteous when they have protected the priests who have sexually abused children for years or had affairs with parish women, then if they got pregnant, just transferred the priest to a different diocese. How hypocritical to fire an excellent teacher for being gay!

All Souls? Well, not really, not if you’re gay or transgender or have parents that are either. I don’t believe God sees it this way. This is not an all-loving God. Who is the Archdiocese to judge anyone? They are not God nor godlike. — Cathi Quering Barnes, Littleton

Does anyone else find it odd that while the Pope has said homosexuality is not a crime and should not be treated as such, the All Souls Catholic Church felt the need to fire a lesbian teacher? Given the Catholic Church’s track record of harboring and hiding pedophile priests, is this not a bit of hypocrisy?

I thought Christianity was supposed to be about inclusion, kindness, caring, et al. In fact, don’t they set the bar for that sort of thing? All you “holier than thou” types need to drag your Bibles off the shelf and have a reread. While religion is not my area of expertise, even I know this is wrong. — Lee Steffen, Westminster