Posted on 08/16/2008 10:42:49 AM PDT by kellynla
Petition signers want University of San Diego to reverse course, re-invite “feminist theologian” to honorary professorship
An online petition signed by thousands is asking the University of San Diego to again change its position and re-invite “feminist theologian” Rosemary Radford Ruether to take an honorary, yearlong professorship at the Catholic school.
[[ATaylor081408.jpg]]Ruether, a supporter of abortion rights, contraception and the renaming of God, had been invited to hold the Monsignor John R. Portman Chair in Roman Catholic Theology at USD for the academic year 2009-2010, a decision that prompted a flood of complaints after California Catholic Daily first reported news of the appointment on July 9. On July 18, Pamela Gray Payton, assistant vice president for public affairs at USD, issued the following statement: “Upon review of the specific purpose of the Monsignor John R. Portman Chair in Roman Catholic Theology, the University of San Diego is no longer considering the appointment of Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether as the 2009-2010 Chair holder.”
A dissident-backed petition under the title “Support Rosemary Radford Ruether and Academic Freedom!” on the web site iPetitions.com has drawn more than 2100 signatures in support of reinstating Ruether to the Portman professorship. (iPetitions.com allows backers of various causes to create their own petitions and gather signatures via the Internet, and claims it reaches up to 250 million users.) A check of the web site yesterday revealed that the Ruether petition had been “closed” after a total of 2102 signatures were obtained – though some of the signatures appear to be duplicates.
The petition in support of Ruether was sponsored by the Women’s Ordination Conference, “a national organization that works for Catholic women to be priests and for a more inclusive Roman Catholic Church,” and by the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, "a feminist educational center.”
(Excerpt) Read more at calcatholic.com ...
hang tough - USD!!!
My question is:
How much distance is there between U.S. Roman Catholic intellectuals and academics and the majority of Roman Catholic parishoners.
My expectations are:
As far as U.S. Roman Catholic parishoners are informed about the positions of U.S. Roman Catholic intellectuals and academics, that distance is understood to be substantial. Yet, the majority of U.S. Roman Catholic parishoners ARE NOT that well informed about many positions held by many U.S. Romand Catholic intellectuals and academics. And, if they were, that distance would be understood to be great by a majority.
So, my querstions is, if my assumptions are correct: when are the memebers of the U.S. Romand Catholic church going to rake control of their institutions? Oh, I forgot, they’re Catholic, they do not belong to them, they belong to the Bishops (who are trained by the intellectuals and academics).
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Excuse me.
Are you a Catholic?
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No. Just one with many Roman Catholic friends who are very disturbed about the intellectual course of their church.
“No”
Well then I suggest you stick to what you know because your first post is so full of inaccuracies that I have neither the time or the inclination to dignify them with a response.
And if you are really interested in what I am referring to, ask one of your “many Roman Catholic friends” to explain to you what they are...BTW, make sure you ask a “practicing” Catholic who KNOWS their religion and not some CINO that didn’t even know or much less care that yesterday was a Holy Day of Obligation.
Good Day!
“Well then I suggest you stick to what you know”
Sorry, but I will continue to listen to my many Roman Catholic friends, practicing Roman Catholic friends, who constantly express their concerns over what they hear and read coming from Roman Catholic intellectuals and academics.
The issue is not your “listening” to your Catholic friends; the issue is your thinking that you know what you’re talking about and posting them here on FR when it comes to issues regarding the Catholic Church which you have proven by your first post that you don’t have a clue!
And why was she initially invited? That's not at all clear in this article ~ certainly her reputation (and bad breath) go before her.
Any idea?
The “intellectuals” who are out of step with the Church’s teaching are adored by the MSM. The only time you read about the conservative ones is when the drivebymedia has an axe to grind.
Yes, the are some very, very bad bishops. (we would like them to go away)
The “intellectual” couse of the Catholic Church?
Never heard of such a thing.
Check out the Catechism of the Catholic Church online here:
http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm
“when it comes to issues regarding the Catholic Church which you have proven by your first post that you don’t have a clue!”
Somehow, it is you that do not have a clue, particularly concerning many Marxist-like public policy positions of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church and the sentiments of many U.S. Roman Catholic parishoners who see much distance between themselves and their church on those issues; a distance that my many U.S. Roman Catholic friends constantly remind me of. It is from them that I bring such concerns to our discusssions. They are not so ill-informed as you pretend.
Sorry; my one-handed typing makes many typos.
It was intended to read:
"....the “intellectual” course of the Catholic Church..."
“The “intellectuals” who are out of step with the Church’s teaching”
I am not referring to intellectuals who are “out of step with the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching, but those who are very much in step with that teaching, under the heading of “social justice”, with which they have made political alliances with the European Marxists on such issues; alliances that have stripped the people of practical moral distinction with Marxists, on many public policy issues, and helped render their Church impotent and wasted, with a natural result that active membership there is in such decline. They are on course to repeat that decline here as they forge new alliances with the left on “social justice”.
So should we just burn them at the stake?
It’d be nice...
That would be morally wrong and not needed; as I said, they - Catholic intellectuals - are about to follow here the same course - suicidal, politically, that has denuded the Roman Catholic parishes of most of western Europe - alliances with Marxists on issues of “social justice”.
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