Posted on 12/14/2010 7:32:38 AM PST by jmaroneps37
A disheartening report from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property better know as TFP reveals that 101 (41%) of putative Catholic Colleges carry pro-homosexual organizations among their sponsored student activities. Worse still was the news that every single Jesuit university and college was on the pro homosexual school list.
These student “clubs” sponsor events presenting and promoting homosexual conduct and culture as well as the redefining of marriage in direct contradiction to the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Georgetown University, America’s first Catholic college, promotes such anti Catholic activities as “weeks” for National Coming Out, Gender Liberation and Pride. It even conducts a separate LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer) graduation ceremony!
Seton Hall University in New Jersey now offers a course called, “The Politics of Gay Marriage” taught by a homosexual activist.
Not content to debase itself with the invitation of Barack Obama, the most pro abortion President in history, as commencement speaker in 2009 and subsequently press charges against praying protestors, Notre Dame University sponsors a week long homosexual festival featuring pro homosexual speakers and movies.
Catholics are not overlooking these outrages
A report from Catholic Culture says, “Contributions to the University of Notre Dame fell by over $120 million during the fiscal year in which President Barack Obama was awarded an honorary degree.
Several dozen bishops criticized the university’s decision during the months preceding the May 17, 2009, commencement ceremony, and an alumni group called for the withholding of donations.”
Catholic Culture continues with….. Thus most of the decline in contributions consisted in a decline in private donations rather than a drop in government funding.”
Church attendance and weekly donations might be…..
More…
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There will always be Catholic colleges, but some are not particularly faithful to the teachings of Jesus and His Church. Our daughter will be graduating from Ave Maria Univ. in May, and she has received an excellent, and truly Catholic, education there.
The article was incomplete, some mention should be made of schools like Christendom College, Thomas Aquinas College, Ave Maria University, Wyoming Catholic College, Thomas More Institute and JP II the Great. These schools were founded in large part to address the failure of the old line Catholic schools.
Excellent! That, and parents deciding that they don't want to pay over $40K a year for their children to lose their Faith, might just bring about some changes. Time will tell, I guess.
There’s a whole web-page for Resources for LBGT students and Alumni at Boston College. But there is still no Knights of Columbus Council. Harvard has one! Oh, but BC has the Beanpot.
They deserve support. The liberation theology/secular humanist/ungodly formerly Catholic schools should be reformed or decertified.
She chose Rutgers instead.
During the 80’s, I estimated that probably 1/3 of younger Jesuits I met were homosexuals. Obviously not a scientific sampling, and no idea if all were practising or not, but certainly, they were there in numbers.
Let them repent if they wish to remain relevant in a Catholic sense.
My little girl is only 3 but you can bet I’ll be keeping my eye on this situation for the coming years.
Thanks for this & keep it coming, please!!
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/studentlife/gaystraight.html
Villanova is an Augustinian University.
IMHO, it stems from Jesuit influence. The Jesuit’s seem to be tied to everything destructive of Catholic influence. If Obama was a Catholic, he would be Jesuit.(look at Father Phleger) Jesuits have been in the liberation theology business for a long time now all over the world. They are generally connected to many of the communist revolutions around the world. If given the choice of excommunication or giving guns and money to Hugo Chavez, they would choose excommunication. In fact, I’ll bet, without even knowing, that Chavez has a Jesuit priest.
Does the church fund these colleges? If so, they should withdraw any funding until the college adheres to church teaching.
I see that I am not the only one to tie this to the Jesuit’s.
Also....Why would any believing Christian ( Catholic or non-Catholic) send their children into our GODLESS collectivist government schools?
The worldview of government schooling **is** to its core godless. Simply to survive in these schools the child must learn to think godlessly.
Perhaps...rather than send a child to a pricey private Catholic college it would be far far far better to use that money to homeschool that child or send them to a private K-12 schools that will solidly ground them in the “Faith of their Fathers”.
The Barna Foundation research has shown that 95% of children who are homeschooled, (and whose parents are highly active in their evangelical faith), will remain active in their faith 2 years after graduating from high school.
In contrast 85% of children ( whose parents are highly active) will be INACTIVE in their faith 2 years after graduating from high school.
My conclusion: 40K or more per year for Catholic college would buy a LOT of homeschooling or solidly Catholic K-12 schooling.
The sheep and the goats are increasingly walking on different paths. Sadly, there is only one path that is the WAY...
Truly Catholic institutions will be found on the WAY.
Most of these so-called Catholic institutions abandoned their Catholic identity when they signed the "Land O' Lakes Statement on the Nature of the Contemporary Catholic University" back in 1967. That was more than forty years ago, and Catholicism hasn't been part of the mission at these schools since then.
Most people who are educated and objective about this issue already know this. Where has the author of this article been all these years?
Help me, please ...
There ARE good Jesuits as well...
(Father James Schall comes to mind. http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/authors/frjamesschall.asp )
There are Catholic Colleges out there. They are laity run now.
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