Posted on 02/12/2004 7:50:22 PM PST by Hamilton2
U. NOTRE DAME HOSTS GAY FILM FESTIVAL
The University of Notre Dame (IN) is hosting the first ND Queer Film Festival, which began yesterday and runs through Saturday. (See www.nd.edu/~lsayre/NDQFF.) Films include “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” described as an “anatomically incorrect rock odyssey,” and “Go Fish,” a movie about a young lesbian seeking love. Although Notre Dame has refused to recognize a homosexual student club, it has allowed the film festival because it is co-sponsored by an academic department, the Department of Film, Television and Theatre. Funding for the event comes from GALA, an association of homosexual Notre Dame alumni.
To protest, contact: Rev.Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; Phone: (574) 631-3903; E-mail: malloy.5@nd.edu.
Father Malloy seems unavailable to listen to complaints so the other phone number to call is 574- 631-8051 for Fr. Peter Jarod"s office.
I'll e-mail your guys if you e-mail my guys!
And I'll pray for them too.
From Cwnews.com:
http://www.cwnews.com/offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm?task=singledisplay&recnum=1546
Ponder this
The Diocese of Cleveland issues a warning to Catholic parishes that seeing a movie, The Passion of the Christ, which illustrates the events of the Gospels, may lead to the rise of anti-Semitism in churchgoing Catholics. Meanwhile, a local Catholic university allows the production of the "Monologues" on campus with proceeds going to a pro-abortion group. [For more on performances at "Catholic" schools, see the Card. Newman Society.] The diocese's response when told about this immoral play supporting the abortion of babies? "No comment."
Evidently, according to the Diocese of Cleveland, the greater threat to society is a movie about the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, not a play that promotes ual immorality and the funding of pro-abortion groups.
"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe (in me) to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea." (Mark 9:42)
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For further confirmation simply follow these two links:
http://events.vday.org/2004/College/John_Carroll_University
This one confirms that the Cleveland Crisis is a member of the Freedom of Choice Cleveland Coalition:
http://www.choicecleveland.com/member.html
You can e-mail the President of JCU at:
Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., President
20700 N. Park Blvd., University Heights, OH 44118
Phone: (216) 397-1886
E-mail: eglynn@jcu.edu
You can e-mail his boss, Father Scullin at Rjssj@aol.com,
These are some of the diocesan e-mails folks should contact:
bishop@dioceseofcleveland.org, bpaepevec@dioceseofcleveland.org, ajquinn@dioceseofcleveland.org, rmharwood@dioceseofcleveland.org, ljurcak@dioceseofcleveland.org
Again, please take the time to e-mail these guys even if it seems like a waste of time. You can cut and paste them all into one e-mail.
I have been boycotting Proctor and Gamble since the debacle over Dr Laura but would encourage others to do the same.
. . .yes, and just as importantly, hold that check you wrote as your 'Alumni donation'.
The Pilgrim Church is on an Alice In Wonderland kind of trip. Looks like what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit more than ever.
See the following...
Amid Priest Sex Abuse Scandals, 30 Catholic Colleges to Host Play Featuring Lesbian Seduction of 16-Year-Old Girl
‘Vagina Monologues’ Canceled at 15 Catholic Colleges
MANASSAS, VA (Feb. 10, 2004) – Cardinal Newman Society has launched a nationwide protest of the “Vagina Monologues,” a vulgar and sexually explicit play that is planned for 30 Catholic campuses in the weeks surrounding Saint Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14).
The list of planned performances announced by V-Day, the national group that has licensed campus productions at more than 500 schools this year, includes prominent institutions like Boston College, DePaul, Georgetown, Loyola of Chicago, Loyola Marymount and Notre Dame.
Already Cardinal Newman Society’s campaign against the play has had an impact. Productions have been canceled at 15 Catholic colleges and universities this year, several prompted by letters, phone calls and e-mails urging administrators to ban “Vagina Monologues.” Cardinal Newman Society praised college officials who interceded and banned the play at the Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), Emmanuel College (Boston, MA), Loyola University of New Orleans (LA), St. John’s University (Jamaica, NY), St. Joseph’s College (Rensselaer, IN), the University of Portland (OR), the University of St. Francis (Joliet, IL), and Wheeling Jesuit University (WV).
“These leaders stood against political correctness in defense of their students’ spiritual and mental health,” said Patrick J. Reilly, President of Cardinal Newman Society, a national organization dedicated to renewing Catholic identity at America’s Catholic colleges and universities. “They deserve the praise and support of all faithful Catholics.”
The campaign has fared even better than last year, when 32 Catholic colleges and universities hosted or sponsored “Vagina Monologues” and 14 productions were canceled.
“Vagina Monologues” presents women discussing their sexuality and sexual encounters, replete with vulgarity, explicit language, and graphic descriptions of lesbian activity and masturbation.
One scene describes the seduction of a sexually inexperienced 16-year-old girl by a 24-year-old lesbian, who first intoxicates the girl with vodka. Instead of presenting the incident as sexual abuse that would be illegal in many states, the play declares it the girl’s “surprising, unexpected and politically correct salvation.”
“I am appalled and embarrassed that any Catholic institution would present this play, especially in the midst of the clergy sex abuse scandal,” Reilly said. “Whether the perpetrator is a lesbian woman or a wayward priest, seduction of a minor is no one’s ‘salvation.’ I would hope that word has a much different meaning for Catholic students and educators.”
V-Day, an organization founded by author Eve Ensler to help fight violence against women, licenses productions of “Vagina Monologues” to students and faculty at more than 500 college campus nationwide. Cardinal Newman Society wrote to the presidents of all U.S. Catholic colleges and universities on December 17, 2003, urging them to investigate and halt planned performances announced by V-Day. The Society also has called on its members and other concerned Catholics to contact college presidents where productions are planned. A sample letter and campaign updates are posted on the Society’s website at www.cardinalnewmansociety.org.
Cardinal Newman Society opposes all campus productions of “Vagina Monologues,” regardless of whether they are formally approved or funded by the college or university. The Society also opposes off-campus performances by official student clubs.
Although most of the productions are organized by students, several are sponsored or co-sponsored by faculty in a wide range of academic departments including Communications, English, Political Science, Social Work, Theater and Women’s Studies. At Nazareth College in Rochester, New York, the play is co-sponsored by Campus Ministry. Student attendance at the performance at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, is counted toward “merit points” used to assign campus housing the following year.
But often faculty and students are divided over the controversial productions. Charles Rice, law professor emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, wrote in the campus newspaper, The Observer: “I hope that our leaders will reconsider this failure of judgment and cancel this third performance [in the last three years]. If not, all the responsible administrators, from the top down, should resign their administrative positions. If they do not resign, they should be removed. Baseball has it right: Three strikes and you’re out.”
All campus performances raise funds for organizations that fight violence against women—a worthy cause, except when recipient organizations also oppose Catholic teaching by advocating abortion. One beneficiary of the events last Friday and Saturday at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, was Planned Parenthood. Although the funds were intended for Planned Parenthood’s rape crisis center, the organization is the largest abortion provider in the U.S. The John Carroll University event will support the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, which advocates abortion rights as a member organization of the Freedom of Choice Cleveland Coalition.
Planned “Vagina Monologues” Sites (Source: V-Day organization as of Feb. 11, 2004. Asterisk identifies performances not able to be independently verified by Cardinal Newman Society.)
Bellarmine University (KY) – Feb. 20-22 Boston College (MA) – Feb. 19-21 * Carlow College (PA) – April 21-22 College of the Holy Cross (MA) – Feb. 10-11 College of St. Rose (NY) – Feb. 17 * College of Santa Fe (NM) – dates unknown DePaul University (IL), Main Campus (Chicago) – Feb. 22 DePaul University (IL), Barat Campus (Lake Forest) – dates unknown Dominican University (CA) – Feb. 20-21 * Edgewood College (WI) – March 2 Fordham University (NY), Lincoln Center Campus – dates unknown Fordham University (NY), Rose Hill Campus – dates unknown Georgetown University (DC), Main Campus – Feb. 27-28 Georgetown University (DC), Law Center – March 18-19 John Carroll University (OH) – Feb. 13-15 Loyola College (MD) – March 10-11 Loyola Marymount University (CA) – Feb. 12-14 Loyola University of Chicago (IL) – Feb. 24, 26 Loyola University of Chicago (IL), Rome Center (Italy) – Feb. 13 Marymount Manhattan College (NY) – Feb. 14-15 Nazareth College (NY) – Feb. 12-14 Providence College (RI) – Feb. 17-18 Regis College (MA) – Feb. 7-8 St. John Fisher College (NY) – Feb. 6-7 St. Joseph College (CT) – Feb. 19-20, 22 St. Louis University (MO) – Feb. 13-15 St. Mary’s College (CA) – Feb. 13 Seattle University (WA) – Feb. 13-15 Seton Hill University (PA) – March 2 * Siena College (NY) – March 11-12 Stonehill College (MA) – Feb. 18-20 University of Dayton (OH) – Feb. 13-15 University of Notre Dame (IN) – Feb. 14 University of San Francisco (CA) – Feb. 13-15
Canceled “Vagina Monologues” Sites (Plans originally announced by V-Day organization) Carroll College (MT) Catholic University of America (DC) Emmanuel College (MA) Holy Names College (CA) Loyola University of Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine (IL) Loyola University of New Orleans (LA) Mount St. Mary’s College (CA) St. Ambrose University (IA ) St. John’s University (NY) St. Joseph’s College (IN) St. Norbert College (WI) University of Detroit Mercy (MI) University of Portland (OR) University of St. Francis (IL) Wheeling Jesuit University (WV) Wasn't sure if this should be a separate posting but didn't want to take up extra space.
PLEASE PROTEST THE SCHOOLS WHICH CONTINUE TO ALLOW THIS DISGUSTING SHOW.
I am tired of hearing about this politically correct BS every single day. Forget about protests. Let's just shut these colleges down.
How do you tell that to a parent?
Only the alumni can change things - and that is by either withholding donations and explaining clearly why, or by targeting where the donations are going.
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