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Catholic women's college in Indiana reverses policy change allowing applicants who ‘identify as women’
Fox News ^ | December 21, 2023 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 12/21/2023 8:43:10 PM PST by Reno89519

Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, reversed a recent decision to allow biological males to attend the university if they have a history of identifying as a woman.

Last month, President Katie Conboy told the faculty about the policy change in an email obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women," Conboy emailed.

The school’s policy change drew harsh criticism from people like Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades, who reportedly urged the school to reverse course because the policy went against Catholic teachings.

On Wednesday, Conboy and the chair of the school’s board of trustees, Maureen Smith, emailed the Saint Mary's College community saying the school would return to its previous admission policy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: indiana; mentallyillmen; notredame; saintmaryscollege; transgender
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Good news. Next, the board members that originally voted to allow mentally ill men attend the school should be given choice: Resign or be Fired.
1 posted on 12/21/2023 8:43:10 PM PST by Reno89519
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To: Reno89519

It’s all about the dollar.

wy69


2 posted on 12/21/2023 9:12:06 PM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: Reno89519

As long as these new members of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, put their offerings into the collection plate, all is good.

That’s the ticket!


3 posted on 12/21/2023 9:15:51 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Reno89519

Now they can keep the name of the town “Notre Dame.”


4 posted on 12/21/2023 9:22:55 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades, who reportedly urged the school to reverse course because the policy went against Catholic teachings.

He is able, canonically, to "forbid" their use of the word "Catholic" in their name or their literature. He probably can't make it stick in secular court but it would look REALLY bad to the alumnae. That carries some clout. Enough, apparently, that they suddenly got their heads right.

5 posted on 12/21/2023 9:32:28 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Reno89519

ya think???


6 posted on 12/21/2023 9:50:21 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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"Conboy", aka, "Soyboy"....

President Katie Conboy...history of identifying as a woman...

sounds like an episode from the "Twilight Zone"...


7 posted on 12/21/2023 9:54:42 PM PST by guest7
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To: Reno89519

A very good friend of mine, a (former) theology teacher at a (allegedly) Catholic high school, got in trouble with the President of that school for teaching that homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, and a few other moral evils violate Scripture and Catholic Doctrine. My friend was not given the choice to resign or be fired; my friend was straight up fired.

The wretched creatures at St. Mary’s shouldn’t get that choice either; they too should be straight up fired. Show them the same lack of courtesy their ilk showed my friend.


8 posted on 12/21/2023 9:57:01 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: jonrick46

Would they have join a nunnery and taken holy orders? I don’t think so.


9 posted on 12/21/2023 10:05:24 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Reno89519

Well said.


10 posted on 12/21/2023 10:05:58 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Reno89519

What’s most disgraceful is that the board had to have outsiders tell them that this was wrong.


11 posted on 12/21/2023 10:07:52 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: guest7

SAVED!!!!!!


12 posted on 12/21/2023 11:32:24 PM PST by FreeperCell
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To: Reno89519

As I keep saying, it is up to the gals to STEP UP and put an end to all this shit. We gave them their own sub-par sports and Title 9, it is up to them, THE GALS, to defend it against (female) Leftist Monsters who simply HATE WOMEN.

We cannot do any more for them.


13 posted on 12/22/2023 12:31:30 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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"So dude, heh heh, all you gotta do is like say you're a woman and they'll let you check out naked chicks in the locker room"

"No way! huh huh..huh huh. Hey school teacher, check it out, I identify as a woman huh huh"

"Heh heh heh...me too, I identify as a woman...heh heh"

"Yeah so like, when do we get to see these naked chicks...huh huh huh"


14 posted on 12/22/2023 1:17:04 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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DARN IT !

Now they will have to change the female student medical plan to cover prostate issues, testicular cancer and erectile dysfunction.


15 posted on 12/22/2023 1:54:34 AM PST by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: "An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes")
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To: whitney69

If you want the dollar, you cannot afford to tarnish the brand. Trans-”women” are exactly what people attend all-women Catholic colleges to avoid.


16 posted on 12/22/2023 4:56:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

“But dude, I’m a like a lesbian transwoman.”


17 posted on 12/22/2023 4:57:53 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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“who consistently live and identify as women”

Consistently? Trans-excluding bigots.


18 posted on 12/22/2023 5:56:47 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: jonrick46

Most Catholic schools are in a death spiral in terms of attendance; many have simply gone from all-boys/all-girls to co-ed in response. See this as just another doing the same; I’d take it as a sign it will be closed within 10 years or so.


19 posted on 12/22/2023 6:41:31 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“If you want the dollar, you cannot afford to tarnish the brand.”

To many people have become complacent about worth. They will buy autos at almost double what they’re worth and will spend over a dollar for a soft drink that the most expensive thing in it is the paper cup. People are programmed. A little like sheep. And they are happy to be told this is an improvement whether it is or not and buy into it. (Notice I said buy?) And they’ll pay the price being just as happy as they are told using that tarnished brand, or any brand.

wy69


20 posted on 12/22/2023 6:57:01 AM PST by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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