Universities banning that with which one disagrees is the road to intellectual mediocrity. One gets toughened by facing one's interlocutor. Absent that, one gets rather lazy and flaccid. JMO.
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Satan has already declared war against the unborn. 40 million babies have been slaughtered in their mothers' wombs since 1973. It's time we started acting like there's a war on.
Good for them. I teach at a Catholic U. and they are having a major pro-homosexual speaker sometime this year. It's outrageous. From the standpoint of truth, it's like inviting a pro-flat-earth speaker just to have "diversity."
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Maybe SHE won't value it as highly, and that's a pity. These folks act like if they don't get the opposing views handed to them on a silver platter by the University, that they won't be able to hear them anywhere. HELLO? The culture and the media is full of nothing BUT opposition to Catholic teaching. She ought to be glad that the University is willing to stand up unequivocally for its beliefs so that she CAN hear the Catholic viewpoint.
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About time.
1. Yes, a campus should have people with non-Catholic views on campus to disuss their ideas.
2. However, there is an obligation in every such forum that the Catholic view is deftly presented and that, when appropriate, such view is clearly noted as the morally licit and Catholic view.
3. And: no honors of any kind to a pro-abort (an absolutely morally untenable view), an anti-Catholic bigot, a celebrated fallen away Catholic, or a celebrated crtic of the Church or its specific policies.
Bishop John W. Yanta is a true hero of the faith, along with bishops such as Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, Archbishop Charles Chaput, and Archbishop John Donoghue (and others). It is deeply saddening to see moral cowards such as Egan, Mahony, and McCarrick appointed cardinals over real Catholics such as Yanta, Bruskewitz, Chaput, and Donoghue.
The Greensburg diocese is speaking out, alright! Kudos to this "small diocese", as the article calls it, approximately fifty miles east of Pittsburgh PA. That area has a strong Catholic presence, and an excellent Catholic college, Seton Hill.