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January 25, 2008

Teacher union to appeal rejection by diocese

Mark Guydish

The Scranton Diocese Association of Catholic Teachers plans to appeal the rejection of it's request to be the union representing local teachers in Catholic schools.

 

“There is a canonical recourse,” Union President Michael Milz said. Church law allows the union to file what amounts to an appeal with the Pope. “We can say we have a bishop not acting consistent with the fashion of Church teachings.” Of course, Milz conceded, that means the union is asking other bishops to rule that Bishop Joseph Martino is in the wrong.

 

This procedure would actually be done through Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See in the , a title that makes him the ’s ambassador and the main papal authority overseeing all dioceses in this country.

 

It’s the same tactic tried unsuccessfully by parents angered over the decision to close four Luzerne County Catholic high schools and open a new one in the old Bishop Hoban building in Wilkes-Barre . They filed an appeal with Sambi in February, 2007. It was rejected that April, taking much of the last wind out of what had been a strong effort to save some of the high schools.

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