What you can do to help:

1) Please consider making a donation to help us through this rough spot. Thank you!

2) If you are in Catholic Higher Education and can help Doug find a wonderful position teaching full-time in the Biological Sciences field or in Administration our family would be greatly appreciative!   Thank you so much. 

3)  Consider taking classes at catholicfarmcollege.com, which we started.

4) We also have a wonderful 20 acre farm here in Corydon, IN listed.  Would love a good Catholic family to buy it,  or turn it into a Catholic family camp!  We are open to all offers. Please contact for more information. 

Full story below.

In 2022, Doug spoke up in a short email to the all faculty list serve at his university.   As a Ph.D. biologist with degrees from Yale and Cornell and who has written ancillary materials for nursing and emergency medicine books, he wrote about 1) covid's origins in China and 2) Jesus Christ as the only real answer to the chaos in the world. Brought up on formal charges by the university, he beat the charges, but was warned that he would face another attempt to get rid of him. One of the charges was religious harassment for extolling Jesus' name. 

After many discussions with his wife, hours in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament, and with the advice of several priests, he resigned his position to find new work. It broke his heart to give up what he had worked decades for, but he felt for months like the situation would kill him.

After some twists and turns, and after founding Sts Therese and Isidore Farm College (catholicfarmcollege.com), he had a job in southern Tennessee as the principal of a small Catholic school, charged with bringing in the Catholic classical model to the school to restore its academic rigor and Catholicity. The time to get to that point used up most of his life savings.

He worked for free for the first three weeks, greatly desiring to bring that wonderful system of Catholic education to help form little souls as saints. He reassured the teachers of what a wonderful system it is and that the change would be gradual, over 3 years. He managed to convince them to begin using the Baltimore Catechism and some other wonderful books in the first year, and he hired a highly qualified male teacher, a fervent Catholic and loving father, to teach 1st and 2nd grades. With the stated full support of the pastor, he also removed spiritually dangerous books, including Harry Potter and an unedited edition of the 1001 Arabian Nights which contained pornographic passages, as well as LGBTQ-promoting curricular materials. These were fully accessible to the children, with the 1001 Arabian Nights on the 7th and 8th grade reading shelf, which 5th and 6th graders could also reach. 

Some families were excited, even non-Catholic families who wanted that kind of safe and wholesome environment for their children. 

On July 17th, a meeting of some other parents turned into a 2 hour drubbing from some parish families who 1) wanted Harry Potter and other witchcraft-based books for their kids since they would see them eventually anyway, 2) didn't think that the pornographic passages were a problem, 3) didn't want males (principal, teacher, etc.) in the school, 4) didn't want the weaving of the Faith throughout the curriculum, as all classical schools do (Catholic or Evangelical). At the end of the meeting, he was assured by a diocesan school official at the meeting that he would get his chance, but a meeting called the next day with the pastor, that official, and two more diocesan officials saw him terminated the next day. He worked for over a month, but only 17 days on contract and didn't even see the health insurance his family was counting on get to start. Appeals to the Bishop have been fruitless.

90% of the family's belongings are stuck 300 miles away from their home in storage, and they lost the home that they were just about to purchase there, leaving the owners of that house high and dry.