Sacramento Catholic School Fires Teacher for Assigning The Passion: "(LifeSiteNews.com) - A Catholic teacher has been dismissed by his Northern California Catholic school for recommending that his students see the Passion of the Christ with their parents. Stephen Hathorn suggested that his seventh grade students see the Passion with parental supervision as an extra credit for their religion class and was given notice on March 26th.

The school has no official comment saying that Hathorn was dismissed for personal reasons, however, the school principal said that it is against school policy to assign R-rated films from kindergarten to eighth grade."