This should be disquiety to Catholics who hoped the new Pope might do something about the homosexuals in the priesthood. Interestingly, even 35 years ago in a Catholic university setting, there were attempts to discipline students for being anti-homosexual after having passes made at them.
Why can't the Church simply live by the doctrine it preaches?
Jesuits
"Well, it is a private university and does have the right to determine what is and is not acceptable behavior for its students,..."
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If he, say, spray painted anti-homosexual remarks around the school property, then yes. But this is a matter of a young man making comments in a forum not related to the school. Has nothing to do with behavior, but rather, whether or not this man's freedom of speech has been violated.
That's the perennial frustration with Catholicism (I write as a Catholic.) The Church is so pure, so deep, so profound in its moral doctrines, found not in the mouths of Duquesne theology professors (ha! ha!), but in Conciliar documents and Papal encyclicals, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, fer Chrissake, literally, all based upon the Word of God ---
That's doctrine ---
But in terms of administration, it has been so cravenly tolerant, so long, in terms of every kind of deviation, behavioral and intellectual---
And of course, Duquesne is not owned and operated directly by the Catholic Church (Archdiocese of Pittsburgh) and probably not even legally or financially controlled by a religious order anymore. In other words, it retains the label "Catholic" while having slim to zero real spiritual or institutional ties to the Catholic Church.
Catholic parents who have spent bazillions of tuition dollars there should be able to sue for fraud, or at least for false advertizing.
Catholic students should be able to sue for educational malpractice.
Who you sue for losing your soul, I don't know. I don't know if you can haul Beelzebub and Moloch into a court of law...