Heartening news.
As Notre Dame and Georgetown sink further into the mire....
Alumni should stop their contributions until there is a turnaround. But are Godly principals as important as football and political science?
Here on Steubenville, Franciscan University is making up for them.
The only purpose served by the existence of a Catholic College is to be authentically Catholic in its mission.
We live about 50 miles from Benedictine College and I know several folks who have gone there. It’s a wonderful resource for our archdiocese.
I want a John Paul The Great sweatshirt!
I went to a “Catholic” university. Most of its faculty supported abortion. The Catholic Church needs to decertify every single university that has “Catholic” in its title and make them re-apply for certification to prove that they actually are, remotely Catholic.
I think that is the biggest point. Catholics desperately want a conservative or even Orthodox Catholic university.
One that has strict adherence to morality and spiritual values. “Diversity” of religions, morals, ethics and debate are not wanted. There is no reason for students to be taught by Muslims, Protestants, atheists, or those that teach heterodoxy or outright heresy.
That those subjects are even mentioned, it is only from the Catholic perspective of what they really are, not what they say they are.
A school is defined as much or even more by what it does *not* permit, than what it promulgates.
Students should graduate motivated and capable of getting good jobs, then getting married and having families, raising their children in their faith.
I learned how to think and write, plus I got enough knowledge to be able to defend my faith.
They are filling in the void created by the apostasy of the Jesuit universities, which are steeped in gay activism and far-left politics.