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A group of parents at Benet Academy is seeking to keep the school a Catholic institution.

A Catholic high school in Illinois has lost its top donor after hiring a lacrosse coach in a same-sex marriage, thereby causing concern that it has abandoned “its adherence to the doctrines of the Catholic faith.”

The Benedictines founded Benet Academy, but it sure sounds like the Jesuits got in there somehow. 

The Benedictines founded Benet Academy, but it sure sounds like the Jesuits got in there somehow. 

A Catholic high school in Illinois has lost its top donor after hiring a lacrosse coach in a same-sex marriage, thereby causing concern that it has abandoned “its adherence to the doctrines of the Catholic faith.”

A same-sex wedding cake topper. / edwardolive/ShutterstockJoliet, Ill., Jan 6, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).After a Chicago-area Catholic high school bowed to protests and hired a lacrosse coach in a same-sex marriage, the Benedictine monks who sponsor it have said they will transition out of leadership at the school."After much deliberation, the monks as a community have discerned that they no longer have the resources needed for the governance and oversight of the academy," Benet Academy ch...

Benet Academy is shedding its affiliation with the Catholic Church after it reversed course on allowing for the hire of an LGBT lacrosse coach.

St. Procopius Abbey will no longer oversee Benet Academy after the school’s board of directors re-extended a girls’ lacrosse coaching offer to a woman in a same sex-marriage.

The school hired the lacrosse coach following a public outcry when she was denied the position.