Posted on 10/17/2005 3:08:02 PM PDT by concernedAmerican1
"The sins which lead most souls to hell are sins of the flesh!" ~ Blessed Jacinta Marto
During the week of October 10-14, students at the prominent Catholic University of Notre Dame faced another assault against traditional Catholic morality on campus: "National Coming Out Day." The weeklong event included shocking pro-homosexual activities under titles such as:
* Speak Out! Sex and Gender at Notre Dame Rally
* Come Out of Your Closet!
* Library Exhibit: Famous LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trasgender] Individuals
* The Process of Coming Out: A Panel Discussion
* Gay? Fine by Me, T-shirt Day
An email alert advertising pro-homosexual activities circulated by a Notre Dame graduate student on October 7, stating: "All campus Masses [on Sunday, October 9] will be dedicated to creating a more welcoming environment for ND GLBTQ [gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer] students. Homilies at Mass in residence halls and the Basilica will reflect this message, and prayer cards and rainbow ribbons will be distributed during all campus Masses."
The same email also invites students to watch a film called Ma Vie En Rose. A description of the movie talks about one of the characters: "Ludvic is a young boy who can't wait to grow up to be a woman."
Notre Dame's Graduate Student Union and Sociology Department sponsored perhaps the most revolting event. According to The Observer, a life-size orange closet draped with a rainbow curtain was placed on the quad in front of the South Dining Hall. Students on their way to lunch were given pink flyers and urged to support the homosexual agenda by literally coming out of this large closet.
More Symptoms of Moral Decay
This week's outrage comes on the heels of other troubling pro-homosexual events. On February 10, Notre Dame hosted its second annual "Queer Film Festival," where notorious dissident Catholic speakers freely voiced their scandalous opinions. At one session, pro-homosexual Sister Jeannine Grammick is reported to have told students: "I'm beginning to believe that the greatest sin for lesbian and gay people is to want to be straight." In 1999, Pope John Paul II permanently prohibited Sister Grammick from all and any pastoral work involving homosexuals. Causing grave scandal, she ignored the order from Rome and continues to contradict Church teaching.
Another featured guest speaker at the film festival was Terrence McNally, author of "Corpus Christi," a blasphemous play that portrays Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles as homosexuals, and which the American TFP protested in 1998. Unfortunately, that is not all. A few days after the "Queer Film Festival," amid widespread opposition, the lewd feminist play "V***** Monologues" was performed on campus with the support of three university departments.
Before this appalling scenario, Notre Dame's Catholic administrators are virtually silent, if not complacent. In fact, next year's "Queer Film Festival" was already approved by Notre Dame's board of directors: "Such films should be shown and discussions on them should be held on a university campus."
Faithful Catholics at Notre Dame are extremely frustrated. As student Christian Hoeffel put it: "One of the primary reasons I chose to attend Notre Dame was because of its deep Catholic roots. Seeing the university sponsor, and often promote, events like the "Queer Film Festival," "V***** Monologues," as well as a number of pro-gay speakers really shocks me, and makes me question whether or not the University of Notre Dame is in line with the Church's teachings as it claims to be."
The Ploy of Academic Freedom
The Most Reverend John M. D'Arcy, bishop of the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, opposed the deplorable "Queer Film Festival" in a statement:
This presentation is an abuse of academic freedom. Pope John Paul II makes clear the place of academic freedom when he says it must always be linked to certain values central to a Catholic university.
Freedom is always linked to truth. In this seminar, held at a Catholic university, there is no place given to the presentation of Catholic teaching on the matter of homosexuality. The rights of others are violated. What about the rights of the church to have its teachings properly presented? What about the rights of parents of those students at Notre Dame who find the content of this seminar offensive?
Launching a prayerful protest
The mission of a Catholic University includes counseling students away from sin, providing them with insights to the necessity and beauty of the virtue of chastity that some may have never known. As Blessed Jacinta warned: "The sins which lead most souls to hell are sins of the flesh!"
That is why TFP Student Action is launching a peaceful and prayerful protest, asking the recently elected president of the University of Notre Dame, Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., to uphold Catholic morality. The success of this protest depends largely on your prayers. Please pray for the end of homosexual sin and for the perseverance of Catholic students.
The more letters we generate, the better. Join the e-petition.
Then forward this article to your friends. Call Fr. Jenkins to complain (always politely and respectfully). Personal letters are effective. Send them to:
Rev. Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President University of Notre Dame 317 Main Building Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: 574-631-5000 Email: Jenkins.1@nd.edu
Dr. Thomas G. Burish, Provost University of Notre Dame 300 Main Building Notre Dame, IN 46556 Email: tburish@nd.edu or provost@nd.edu Phone: 574-631-6631, Fax: 574-631-6897
Other numbers to call:
Alumni Association Phone: 574-631-6000 Email: alumni-support-l@lists.alumni.nd.edu
Vice President for Public Affairs and Communication Ms Hilary Crnkovich Phone: 574-631-6798 Email: crnkovich.1@nd.edu
disgusted placemark
I agree with you there!
I've been looking around at Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, and Colleges of Distinction to get some ideas. I have a good friend who consults for Christian Colleges, and his opinion of most Catholic colleges is that they are very leftist compared to many other Christian college denominations. From what I've seen, I believe him.
He said that a college like Notre Dame has almost no criteria that their faculty must meet regarding their respect for Christianity. They hire leftist puke professors all the time.
Some more conservative Christian colleges require their professors to sign a pledge that they will not "bad mouth" Christianity. (for lack of a better term)
Still other Christian colleges require their professors to be practicing Christians.
There's a wide range of choices.
This traditional Lutheran believes that the Holy Father would be entirely proper if he were to excommunicate the priests who aided and abetted the rainbow Masses. Those who willingly lead souls astray (and what could be further astray than promoting intrinsically disordered behaviors) must be dealt with severely.
There is some hope there, last week Jim Caviezel leads rosary at Grotto
This is not shocking considering the state of the catholic church.
OK, I'm not expecting these people to be wild sex beasts, but when someone's so sexually uptight that he/she can't bring him/herself to fully spell the word "vagina" in a non-lewd context, there's something very wrong with him/her.
If you want on/off the ping list let me and little jeremiah know.
Methinks God's Rotweiler needs to do a little cleansing of the religious orders, starting with the Jesuits and the Congregation of the Holy Cross!
The final outrage was when the fighting Irish lost on Saturday to USC in a game they...almost won. (Yeah, I know, that means you lost.)
Soooooooo bad!
My thoughts too....
Darn! I was just going to ping John O, fellow MU grad, that we always knew Notre Dame was full of homosexuals but then I read your post!
Someone else said this: "At least USC is what it is; ND no longer is what it was intended to be."
To which I say: let's not confuse football programs with campus life. It is fair to say that the overriding PC atmostphere on all campuses is one of political correctness and "diversity." I know both of these campuses well, and do you really think heartland ND is more screwed up than Southern California USC, which is just a pimple on the crap city of Los Angeles? For more, see below:
And you said this: "Our daughter will be attending college in 5 years. We are looking for a Christian school, we are Catholic, but Notre Dame will definitely not be on our list."
First of all, do your daughter a favor. Visit ND. See it, feel it. Our daughter is a junior there now, and most of the kids--as in 85%+--are very conservative. All this transgendered $hit is somethign that's...tolerated--not condemned, not necessarily frowned upon...and very often, just laughed at. Strange kids come to campus and, since we're all so "inclusive" these days, a place must be made for them. Campuses are freewheeling places: You wanna set up a "solidarity" booth on the quad--hey, go for it. NO university is going to be on record as opposing any type of minority's rights to express itself.
The younger generation is a lot cooler about this sort of stuff than we are. They take it with a worldly grain of salt, and a sidelong snarky glance.
Notre Dame is very conservative, very Catholic (upwards of 90%), and just because a literal part of a fraction of the student body or even the faculty "acts out" doesn't mean that such behavior has any real impact on the life of most of the students. Most of these kids arrive with their characters and attitudes fully formed, and they're here to make friends, learn, and have a beer. They're not looking to "find themselves"--they already know who they are, where they are, and what they want. Most of them.
Your daughter, in five years? I suspect you've already formed her. Five more years, she'll be ready for almost anything.
Now, for ND (and I know it very well at this point): The students are conservative (not just in politics, but in many ways), disciplined, responsible...yet pretty cool. Corporate recruiters BEG to come to campus, because ND grads have always made great employees.
And very Catholic. Forget the handouts at mass...they go, they pray, they visit the Grotto.
If you're starting to think about giving ND another shot, know this: ND has never been easy to get into. Today, it is one of the hardest schools in the country to get into.
Wrong. See #55.
I think Touchdown Jesus would slap them one if they had that gay day.
Southern Catholic College in Georgia and Ave Maria University are new, traditional Catholic schools here in the South. The National Catholic Register and her sister publication, Faith and Family magazine, recently did a report on good choices in Catholic colleges. Basically, those who require their theology professors to have the Mandatum and publicize who has the Mandatum make the list. This at least gives parents some comfort that their child is not studying theology with a heretic at the helm.
You, and most of the people on this thread, remind of the guy who said to me: Don't send your daughter to ND, they treat women very badly. I told him my daughter (a current junior), isn't having that experience at all. He was insistent. His impression dated from a visit there, soon after ND started admitting women...in the early '70s.
See my #55 for a frontline report on life at ND.
To say that the homos are taking over is just not true. All these special minorities are just damned, damned noisy. They WANT you to think they're taking over. Like I said, see #55.
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