Posted on 10/20/2018 6:08:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
At the center of this evil evolution are two products of Donald Wuerl’s world.
Secularized American Catholic universities fail every test of honest advertisement: they are neither Catholic nor American, insofar as they peddle heresies and anti-American ideologies, and they don’t even resemble universities. They are more like glorified PC high schools or left-wing adult learning annexes. They are worse than a waste of time and money; they corrode souls and deform minds. A few of them are academically strong in this or that department, but in general they are ghastly messes — sorry products of the 1967 Land O’ Lakes Statement, a baldly heretical declaration cobbled together by Notre Dame’s Theodore Hesburgh, and incidentally signed and promoted by the pedo-rapist Theodore McCarrick, which called on all Catholic colleges and universities to secularize.
Sadly, Franciscan University of Steubenville, which many Catholics assume is safe from that secularist contagion, is succumbing to it. Both the president of Steubenville University and his COO (who functions as a de facto executive vice president) are “pushing the school to embrace the LGBT agenda,” says an angry parent. Concerned Catholics, including several shocked parents and students, contacted me several months ago about the secularizing mischief of Fr. Sean Sheridan, Steubenville University’s president, and his hand-picked COO William Gorman. They have set up a “Diversity and Inclusion Committee,” which they are using to “undermine the Church’s teachings on human sexuality,” says a concerned Catholic who has witnessed the school’s slide toward secularism over many years. “Sheridan and Gorman want to drive conservatives off campus and bring gay-rights propagandists like Jesuit James Martin on to it.” (In 2017, Donald Wuerl hosted a special luncheon for Martin. Wuerl’s hand-picked pastor at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Monsignor W. Ronald Jameson, has signed an interfaith declaration in favor of gay marriage.)
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Why the Alumni contribute to these worthless institutions is a mystery to me
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I got my master’s at Villanova. I have not donated a penny.
I never thought Franciscan would succumb to this tomfoolery. Why would The school bring Sheridan on to begin with?
Franciscan was pretty catholic. It would be a shame if it rots out like so many other colleges
bkmk
Jameson used to be my pastor at Holy Redeemer in College Park. He was a snake then, too.
Agree!
Keep the Sacraments part intact, but farm out the overall management (hiring, firing, guest speaker invitations and course development) to Jerry Falwell, Jr
“...Why would Alumni contribute...?’
I graduated from St. Bonaventure 1981 and I never contribute.
So did I and undergraduate LaSalle
No $$$ from me to either
Because until this revelation we thought Steubenville was the last refuge for fidelity.
Ya, cuz Jerry believes and teaches Catholic doctrine......//S
Catholic colleges made a huge mistake by not joining Hillsdale and Grove City in eschewing Federal money.
I actually attended a conference there once.
Yes, would be a shame.
Georgetown University high on that list.
I’m sure that the school will not go down without a fight, and there are still some smaller Catholic schools that are rock solid in terms of fidelity, but this news is pretty gut-wrenching.
Too much Francis at Franciscan.
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