The United States’s Apostate Catholic Universities
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012What, during the title of God, is happening with The United States’s Catholic universities?
Notre Dame alumni are putting the screws to their alma mater, hitting it where exactly it hurts most: during the Irish endowment.
The goal: Dumping university president, Rev. John Jenkins. The reason: Jenkins’ invitation to pro-abortionist President Barack Obama to speak at commencement on Might 17th and Jenkins’ surrender of the values upon which Notre Dame was founded. The prospects of good results: Nil, in either ousting Jenkins or in stopping their school from honoring a man who stands in opposition to virtually everything Notre Dame and also the Catholic faith holds a fact and sacred.
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it might signify a further embarrassment to all worried to revoke the Obama invite at this point and an equal embarrassment to power Jenkins to move down beneath duress. Nevertheless, the school however has big hopes and anticipates President Obama will abide by tradition, regardless if the school has abandoned its traditional moral principles. A university spokesman indicated that, “Notre Dame expects Obama to Wear Prayer to Virgin Mary on His Chest When He Accepts Honorary Degree:” http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46844. That is the same traditional robe worn by such luminaries as George W. Bush and Martin Sheen and, as another spokesman added, “everybody” wears that robe when receiving such recognition by Notre Dame and so will Obama.
Really Don’t wager the farm on that expectation. Not that Obama is just not into custom but his traditions are not relatively the equivalent as Notre Dame’s. A White Dwelling spokesman when requested with regards to the robe hemmed and hawed through a solution and sputtered, “I Have seemed round, but I do not have a solution for you.”
We will get that respond to in a little over a month at the graduation ceremony. I wonder how proud the new graduates and “Rudy” Ruetigger feel about the whole mess created for their beloved school by Father Jenkins.
That other prestigious, eastern United States Catholic university, Georgetown, had already succeeded in upstaging its sister Catholic school in South Bend by its shameful action when Obama spoke there just lately. Georgetown deferred to Obama by covering the religiously-symbolic letters, “IHS,” which had been never ever a problem for other speakers. For Obama, for some purpose, the iconic symbol was “out of context.” GU subsequently supplied the lame excuse that it necessary the area for flags. (See http://www.cnsnews.com/general public/material/report.aspx?RsrcID=46784 and “Pusillanimity on Parade in Academia:” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=959.)
In what appears to become a never ever-ending competitors for publicity, or for something much even worse, Georgetown outdid by itself for the duration of this 12 months’s Lenten period
If I may very well digress for a short bit, GU’s desecration of Lent introduced to head the priest and household good friend who had officiated at our wedding ceremony forty a extended time in the past. 20 a extended time later, Father Joe made the decision he had had it and left the priesthood. His winters of discontent were not rooted in his religion or the priesthood for each se around it was discontent while employing the new priests entering that vocation. He expressed the reason for his providing up his vestments inside a rhetorical query: “What other profession delivers this kind of ripe discipline for homosexuals to go after their homosexual inclinations?”
His position and the contribute to of Father Joe’s justifiable anger was the influx of gays into your priesthood, the outcomes of which have grown to be all way too evident in up to date headlines about predator priests and boy or girl molestation. As vocations because of the unquestionably priestly plummeted, the Church sought to fill the ranks by allowing for entry into its seminaries don’t just to “non-practising” homosexuals but to some others of questionable character and morality, provided that they hadn’t been caught yet still.
the outcomes may also be evident at Georgetown University. Jesuit GU bastardized the incredibly first week of Lent with “Sex Optimistic Week,” dedicated not exclusively to homosexuality but open to all “positivity.”
Georgetown’s “Sex Optimistic Week” featured various “optimistic” events. On Monday they had a panel discussion on positive sex. Tuesday focused on the eternal query, “Can pornography be sex positive?” Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, was spent on “Having a wholistic approach to one’s sexuality and desires.” Thursday was open mic night when students were invited “to come like yourself and be a part of a safe space to artistically talk about sex positivity.” And Saturday was devoted to “Relationships Beyond Monogamy,” hosted by a porn movie director: http://weblog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/02/sex-constructive-week-at-georgetow.html.
Georgetown students were becoming nicely-prepared for your holy season of Lent, connected in bygone occasions with fasting, abstinence, and sacrifice and now at GU with the many constructive aspects in hooking up and pornography.
Additionally west from Georgetown, other Catholic universities are trying to contend for that 2009 Catholic Disgrace Award.
Out to the Left Coast, in February, Catholic, Seattle College noticed the start of Lent by keeping a “Transgender Consciousness Full Week.” In lieu of GU’s overt accent on porn, Seattle’s LGBTQI sponsored this full week and addressed many subjects associated with the interests of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and queers; as for the “I” in LGBTQI, I can only surmise it stands for insecure.
Discusssion subjects included, “Passing as Yourself,” “Transgender Bible Study,” and “Criss-Cross [not THE Cross] Day” for the duration of which students were invited to “Come dressed for the day with your finest gender bending outfit!” Transgender Awareness Week featured refreshments only on Thursday, so students would have to refresh themselves on the other days-or surrender refreshments for Lent: http://queersu.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/transgender-awareness-full week/.
Previous but barely minimum during this pantheon of Catholic apostasy may be a hometown college of Barack Obama and Rod Blagojevich, Loyola of Chicago, which continues the superior specifications arranged by Obama and Blago. “At Loyola of Chicago that full week, the Pupil Variety and Cultural Affairs Company introduced ‘Brother to Brother,’ a movie… about ‘a homosexual African-American who’s transported in time to fit your needs to cavort while employing the allegedly homosexual Langston Hughes.’ The movie is said to be component of ‘a semester-long ‘Color of Queer Film Series,’ sponsored by the university.”
The film’s protagonist, “Perry Williams, [is] a young man dealing with the strife involved with getting each African-American and also a homosexual in modern The Major Apple:” http://www.starpulse.com/Films/Brother_to_Brother/Summary/. Seems to me like a quickly-to-be traditional which is in a position to develop into common Lenten fare everywhere you go!
What, inside the title of God, is happening with America’s Catholic universities? The answer is both easy and sad: They have lost their way in what Pope Benedict XVI called, “a desert of godlessness” and what I would call a sea of cynical apostasy.