The archdiocese maintained that it considers all teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators to be ministers who must follow church teaching. Brebeuf leaders said the teacher was a “longtime valued employee” who didn’t teach religion. On Friday, Thompson issued a decree against Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School because it employed a teacher in a same-sex marriage. This is the third Indianapolis Catholic high school that’s faced pressure from Thompson over employees in same-sex marriages since he became archbishop in July 2017. “Archbishop Thompson made it clear that Cathedral’s continued employment of a teacher in a public, same-sex marriage would result in our forfeiting our Catholic identity due to our employment of an individual living in contradiction to Catholic teaching on marriage,” the school statement said.
