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Catholic college students are threatening, harassing, and targeting a Resident Advisor (RA), including with a cartoon depicting him being anally raped, for posting a bulletin board affirming Catholic teaching on marriage. “I couldn’t even go brush my teeth for several nights without facing a mob in my hallway,” the RA, Michael Smalanskas, told LifeSiteNews. Providence College, where this is taking place, is run by the Dominican order’s Province of St. Joseph – well-known in most places for its orthodoxy. However, in response to repeated vandalism of the bulletin board and other student employees threateningly congregating outside the Catholic RA’s door...

PC beats BU to win its first NCAA Hockey Championship. FYI -- PC is one of of the few Catholic colleges that is still an a Catholic college.

Recently, as readers of Crisis may have heard, our administration at Providence College retracted an invitation to a Professor John Corvino, who afterwards said in disgruntlement that he’d been looking forward to speaking at a Catholic college like ours, to persuade young people that the homosexual life was good for the individual and for the society. The specific topic was same-sex pseudogamy, mock-marriage for people whose unchosen inclinations or indulged compulsions or disdain or fear of the opposite sex may render them incapable of marrying and begetting children after the ordinary way of nature. We’ll now host a debate in...

Dear Members of the Providence College Community:             Having spent my first six months trying to learn about the campus culture, I would like to inaugurate a series of letters reflecting on some of the most debated questions that I have heard discussed since I began my ministry as president.  I begin with the question of what is the most appropriate way for the Providence College community to work together to prevent violence against women.  Some people feel passionately that  the college ought to sponsor a V-Day production of The Vagina Monologues, and I have often been queried about...

STUDENTS COMPLAIN ABOUT EXPLICIT 'SEX CLASSES' AT PROVIDENCE   The Cowl, a student newspaper at Providence College (RI), has published a detailed report on three sociology courses known on campus as the "sex classes."  (The report is online athttp://www.thecowl.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=407037 .)    Students complain the courses--titled Modern Society, Sociology of the Family and Sociology of Human Fertility, all taught by Assistant Professor of Sociology James Moorhead--include explicit and offensive discussion of sexual issues that runs contrary to Catholic teaching, according to The Cowl.  Students claim class participants have been urged to discuss and advise each other on sexual experiences. The Cowl...