I’ll bet St. Pius X wouldn’t have known a ‘pick ‘n roll’ from a ‘two-handed set shot.’
Hey, Michelle. We’re not in ‘ante-Great War’ Rome anymore.
Religion rears its ugly head
and Patapsco Jack gives me the heads up.
*
UPDATE:
Giovanni Limbo–basketball writer for L’Osservatore Romano–states
“Pius X no, but Pius XI averaged 23 points a game
before he entered the seminary.”
*
School stops female referee from working a boys game
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, February 14, 2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Kansas activities officials are investigating an incident in which a religious school refused to let a female referee call a boys high-school basketball game.
The Kansas State High School Activities Association said that referees reported that Michelle Campbell was preparing to officiate at St. Mary’s Academy, near Topeka, on Feb. 2 when a school official said that Campbell could not call the game. The reason given, according to the referees: Campbell, as a woman, could not be put in a position of authority over boys because of the academy’s beliefs.
Campbell then walked off the court, joined by two male referees who wanted to show their solidarity.
The State High School Activities Association said that it is considering whether to take action against St. Mary’s Academy, a private religious school. St. Mary’s Academy, about 25 miles northwest of Topeka, is owned and operated by the Society of St. Pius X, which follows older Roman Catholic laws. The society’s world leader, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was excommunicated by Pope John Paul II in the late 1980s.
Gary Musselman, the association’s executive director, said that the association will not make a decision until it confirms whether St. Mary’s Academy has a policy of not allowing female referees to work boys basketball games.
*
*
Images: (BBall shot of Mendy & Red) via en.wikipedia.org;(Hat) spiriyrestoration.org via opinions.latimes.com; (right hand) bp3.blogger.com via ad-orientem.blogspot.com; ;(Pius face) home.comcast.net; (Pius robe) cfpeople.org