Cardinal's antigay comments upset faculty at Georgetown ("TOP CONTENDER TO SUCCEED POPE")

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Advocate.com ^ | Friday, May 23, 2003

[11th_VA]

Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria, widely considered a top contender to succeed Pope John Paul II, angered students and faculty at Georgetown University with an antigay remark he made during a commencement speech delivered May 17. A letter protesting his speech and signed by about 70 faculty members at the Jesuit university was delivered Wednesday to Jane McAuliffe, dean of the university's school of arts and sciences, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

McAuliffe, a specialist in Islamic studies, invited Arinze, who is president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, to speak on Christian-Muslim relations at the school's graduation ceremonies. Instead, the Nigerian prelate told the graduates that happiness is found not in the pursuit of material wealth or pleasures of the flesh but by fervently adhering to religious beliefs. Arinze then spoke of the importance of family to the Roman Catholic Church. "In many parts of the world, the family is under siege," Arinze reportedly said. "It is opposed by an antilife mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions, and cut in two by divorce." Some students and at least one faculty member got up and left the ceremony following Arinze's comments.

[11th_VA]

Sad when a Cardinal can't talk about Catholic values at a Catholic University ...

[rovenstinez]

Sounds like he might command a little respect. I wonder if people didn't like some of the words Jesus spoke....uhmmmmm..

[RobbyS]

Praise God! He gave it to them right between the eyes. No American cardinal would have the guts. What a mockery the Jebbie colleges have become.

[patton]

I wonder why someone doesn't corner the Father-General of the Jesuits -

and make him eat his sword.

[kellynla]

After four years of a liberal education what'd you'd expect from the students...The Cardinal speaks the truth! I only wish he would have addressed the child molestation by priests!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I don't think particularly singled out homosexuals, but used a great list of evils in the culture that threaten the family. The Advocate is only singling out homosexuality. Saying that the family is mocked by homosexuality, is a true statement, isn't it?

[NewMac]

Assumption that Georgetown is Catholic is a natural one. For so many years it had been a Catholic Seat of higher learning but that fact has faded from the scene many years ago.
Georgetown, and unfortunately they are not alone, is a result of poor Jesuits with poor judgement, poor faith in their Church, and a bent toward socialism running the schools formerly run by decent men of faith. Pray for the Jesuits, and there are many, who are good and faithful and have to put up with the likes of those at Georgetown.
Slowly the tide will turn. This deviancy in all walks of life will have to end before there is complete turnaround. Let's hope and pray so!

[patton]

See #4

[11th_VA]

From the Holy See web site:

[Bedford Forrest]

And why in hell does a "specialist in diaperhead studies" hold a ranking position at my alma mater, a formerly Jesuit school? I now believe I got in on the last of the good times [College,'69] at a great Jesuit school which, by the late 70's, was destroyed by the PC aids virus. Bung pirates, dope heads, dictatorial diversity uber alles, Klinton treated like a rock star, and don't even think about prayers before every class or a crucifix in every classroom. Georgetown is all gone. BTW, the arkie white trash sinkmaster did not graduate from the College. He "attended" the school of foreign service, which was [and presumably remains] a profit center funded by the parents of lower wattage grubs who had no chance of being admitted to the College. In those days the College entering classes had the nation's highest SAT verbal scores and the second highest SAT math scores, behind the geeks at MIT. Naturally, the Sinkmaster's transcripts have been expunged.

[VOA]

Praise God! He gave it to them right between the eyes. No American cardinal would have the guts.

I'm not Catholic, but I'd like to cast my vote for this fellow for Pope.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

I'm not Catholic either, and I agree. Apart from anything else, a traditionalist black African Pope will drive the leftists insane.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

"It is opposed by an antilife mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions, and cut in two by divorce."

The Cardinal breathes a breath of life for the Catholic Church instead of the kiss of death liberal clergy have locked onto it with...

[Travis McGee]

Was the angry letter written on pink letterhead?

[Travis McGee]

Please let it be so!

[Travis McGee]

Hehehe!

[Bedford Forrest]

I can't help it. It was a great school and it has been destroyed. As have a lot of others.

[Bedford Forrest]

I'm not Catholic, but I'd like to cast my vote for this fellow for Pope.

Roger that, bigtime.

[Malesherbes]

The same thing happened in a conclave of Anglican bishops in London a year ago. The African bishops in attendance denounced homosexuality - which drove the British and American attendees into a fury.

[ALASKA]

...and make him eat his sword.

Questionable choice of words considering the subject?