(The Nativity School) Fly Those Flags Upside Down, by Jim Russell

There is a widely accepted convention that one should never display the flag of the United States of America upside down—it counts as an act of grave disrespect for its intended meaning. Unless, one does so as a sign of “dire distress in instances of extreme danger,” the convention goes.

With that in mind, enter now the arena of controversy hitting Catholic media this past week regarding the decree of Bishop Robert J. McManus, leader of the diocese of Worcester, Massachusetts, forbidding a private school in his diocese from identifying itself as a “Catholic” school because they refuse to stop displaying the rainbow “Pride” flag and the Black Lives Matter flag alongside the American flag at their school. …

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