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No More Monthly Mass At Worcester Jesuit School That Had Catholic Identity Yanked

No More Monthly Mass At Worcester Jesuit School That Had Catholic Identity Yanked

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A Jesuit middle school in Worcester that lost its ability to call itself Catholic because it flies a rainbow flag and a Black Lives Matter flag used to have Mass on campus once a month, according to a news story in The Boston Globe. The story paraphrases the president of Nativity School, Thomas McKenney, as saying the school experienced a surge of fund raising after Bishop Robert McManus, the bishop of Worcester, yanked the school's Catholic identity in June. The story also states:  "Although t

A Jesuit middle school in Worcester that lost its ability to call itself Catholic because it flies a rainbow flag and a Black Lives Matter flag used to have Mass on campus once a month, according to a news story in The Boston Globe. The story paraphrases the president of Nativity School, Thomas McKenney, as saying the school experienced a surge of fund raising after Bishop Robert McManus, the bishop of Worcester, yanked the school's Catholic identity in June. The story also states:  "Although t…