“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
Hillaire Belloc
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Mona Faulkner, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Fresno, Thinks Tim Gordan is Racist
His daughter, who had been suffering from relentless bouts of
seizures, recently underwent a hemispherectomy, a rare form of
neurosurgery in which a large portion of one of the brain’s hemispheres
is removed. It is an expensive procedure, and Tim was fortunate to have
insurance from the Catholic high school that employed him to defray some
of those expenses.
Members of that high-school community emailed Tim, wishing his
daughter well during the surgery. They prayed for her on the morning
announcements. But after Tim said something unfashionable about Black
Lives Matter in public, his employment at the school was swiftly
terminated. No longer covered by the school’s insurance, his daughter’s
expensive recovery would have to be financed out-of-pocket.
Gordon, on his Twitter account, referred to Black Lives Matter as a
terrorist organization. Perhaps you agree with that assessment, and
perhaps you don’t. But in either case, that Gordon — a devoted teacher,
husband, and father — should be fired from his job at a Catholic high
school for airing his opinion on that question is absurd. That he was
fired not long after his daughter’s brain surgery borders on cruelty,
and certainly raises questions about the Catholic identity of the school
that employed him.
Timothy J. Gordon studied philosophy in Pontifical
graduate universities in Europe, taught it at Southern Californian
community colleges, and then went on to law school. He holds degrees in
literature, history, philosophy, and law. Currently, he resides in
central California with his wife and five children, where he writes and
teaches philosophy and theology. He is the author of Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish without Rome (Sophia Institute Press, 2019).
