Posted on 03/28/2014 6:05:32 AM PDT by marshmallow
1887 Trust, an organization committed to promoting Gonzaga University’s Catholic identity, is pointing to the Jesuit University’s exclusion from the most recent edition of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) “Choosing the Right College” to call the University to recommit to its Catholic identity.
The editor of the guide, John Zmirak, in an interview with the Trust, pointed to the decrease in Catholic identity since the departure of Father Robert Spitzer as president of the Jesuit university.
“Gonzaga had shown promise under the leadership of Father Spitzer,” he reportedly said. “The change of administration, and the termination of Father Spitzer’s policies, evidenced especially by the denial of club status to the Knights of Columbus, signaled that Gonzaga had retreated from the effort to strengthen Catholic identity and had become just another expensive liberal arts school.”
The Cardinal Newman Society reported extensively last year on the University’s refusal to recognize a Knights of Columbus chapter on campus, citing its restrictive membership to male Catholics. They eventually relented, however, and allowed the chapter to form.
The University also recently honored pro-abortion rights, pro-same-sex marriage, and pro-contraception Archbishop Desmond Tutu with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
Gonzaga has hosted the lewd play The Vagina Monologues on campus several times with faculty, university officials, and others arguing that a performance of the play not only was permissible but "necessary" for an institution with Catholic identity.
(Excerpt) Read more at cardinalnewmansociety.org ...
I hope they also dropped Notre Dame, Georgetown, and a host of other “Catholic-In-Name-Only” colleges.
“The change of administration, and the termination of Father Spitzer’s policies, evidenced especially by the denial of club status to the Knights of Columbus, signaled that Gonzaga had retreated from the effort to strengthen Catholic identity and had become just another expensive liberal arts school.”
Any Catholic School denying the Knights, should be left off the list, may not call them even Catholic, at a minimum, that's an outrage.
Prayers for the to recommit to their Catholic identity. St. Ignatius of Loyola pray for us.
Many in my family have attended and graduated from Gonzaga including my deceased father who attended for two years after the Korean war and left to start his future successful business in which he raised us nine children and he eventually went on to be an avid fund raiser for the church. Blessings to you Salvation and I pray.
GOOD!
I’m an alum, as are most of my 11 siblings. I haven’t donated any money in at least 5 years, and will not ever again, unless and until they get back to their Catholic identity.
So sad to see the decline of a once-good institution into the depths of the current culture’s depravity, and to what end?
there, fixed it...
“... a Knights of Columbus chapter on campus,...”
The author, Mr. Archbald, should do a little better reporting, especially as he is allegedly a Catholic journalist. Knights of Columbus don’t call their main membership bodies “chapters,” but rather “councils.”
They Zigged when they should have Zagged.
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