After decades of disinterest, suddenly two Canon 1405 cases?

In the Light of the Law ^ | April 23, 2008 | Edward N. Peters, JD, JCD

[baa39]

You mean Matthew Fox? I had forgotten he was a Dominican, but if I recall it took quite a bit of pressure from the Vatican for the order to finally take action against his heretical practices.

I met Fr. Fox before his excommunication, I was studying at the same college where he had his “Creation-Centered Spirituality” program. This is also the college where one of the 9/11 terrorists was registered for an English language program and never showed up for classes. Weird place for a seemingly innocuous, small, private Catholic college run by nuns.

The campus had a uniquely strange feeling because of the co-existence of these three programs, with many of these people living in close proximity in the dorms: (1) regular college kids, (2) middle-aged hippies in the Fox program (whom the college kids laughed at), (3) Mostly Saudis (who came to class in limousines) and Germans with a smattering of Latin Americans in the ESL program.

That was also my first up close and personal experience with Saudis, they were the slimiest, rudest, most arrogant people I ever met, and assumed they were entitled to sleep with any American girl.

Well, I’m digressing quite a bit from the topic here.....

[livius]

What a bizarre place that campus must have been!

I knew people who taught Saudis in other colleges in California, btw, and their observation was that Saudis just assumed that cheating was the normal way of passing a test. They paid other people to take their tests, they bought tests, you name it. Fortunately, they were so stupid (and probably arrogant, as well) that they often paid people who didn’t look even remotely like them, even to the densest proctor, or copied the mistakes off the tests they had bought. Busted!

As for Matthew Fox, I do recall that getting rid of him was quite a drawn-out process.

[baa39]

I’ve heard that same type of description of Saudis and Egyptians, from people who worked with them. Not only that they are completely bereft of morals as we would define them, but pretty stupid. Not sure why this keeps coming up with these two groups and not other Arab nationalities.

One more thing made life on that college campus even stranger. We were not far from U.C. Berkeley, which had an urgent shortage of student housing. Our dorms had extra space, so it was rented to a group of Berkeley kids. Of course, we being a small, private Catholic college, they considered themselves superior to us in every way, you could almost hear them thinking we were clinging to our guns and religion....