Marriage ‘not just about emotional satisfaction’

A teacher at a Catholic middle school in Butte, Montana was fired after she became pregnant out of wedlock, writes Michael Sean Winters.

Shaela Evenson’s employment was terminated, according to school superintendent Patrick Haggerty, because she “made a wilful decision to violate the terms of her contract”. Most Catholic school contracts require teachers to live in accordance with church teachings.

“The Catholic moral teaching is that the Sacrament of Marriage is a holy union between a man and a woman,” Haggarty told the Associated Press. “And we certainly believe and we teach our children who attend our schools about the Sacrament of Marriage. That’s as old as our Church.”

Writing at the blog Millennial, theologian Meghan Clark of St John’s University said the dismissal harms the Church’s pro-life witness.