Posted on 01/15/2006 7:14:29 PM PST by narses
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We need more leaders with stamina who don't care what others think.
Unbelievable that any faith based school or college would approve of the play much less show it on campus.
CNS is a STUDENT organization of great moral strength trying to reset morality in the heart of Catholic education. Modernism (the Heresy) is rampant in most so called Catholic schools.
Here is a reply rec'd by someone else from a school on the list above (Loyola of Chicago?):
January, 2006
Dear sir or madam:
The religious right continues to spread the idea that the play, “The Monologues,” is anti-women, and full of explicit ual references. It suggests that Catholic universities that allow the play to be performed on campus are somehow violating the Church’s teachings.
While I am in no way saying that these ual references are tasteful—I, too, find some of them distasteful--or that some of the ideas in the play are not contrary to Catholic teaching, I defend the right of students and faculty to discuss the play and its ideas. Each year, for several years now, students and faculty have seen several monologues and then use the occasion to discuss such issues as against women and the difficult topic of how women’s bodies have been treated and manipulated by our nt culture. The overall experience is one of consciousness-raising and sensitizing our students—male and female—to the plight faced by many women in our society who are victims of and abuse, and the more subtle abuse of exploitation.
Is this the easiest play to view? No. Is it harmful to or disrespectful of women? I believe it is not. Is it any more graphic or explicit than much of popular culture available in TV and in the movies today? No, it is not. However, it does speak to the experience and concerns of many women today and in the past, both in this and in many their cultures that exploit women economically, psychologically and ually. More important than all this--and this is something I feel a university is obligated to do—it raises awareness and is an occasion for students in this generation to discuss an important series of questions about justice between and among us.
I believe strongly that it is not the business of the University—its faculty or administration--to censor plays, books or topics of discussion. Indeed, it is precisely how we help students form minds that can see through complex issues and it is how we relate the relevance of the Christian message. There are plays and assigned readings that we believe explicitly promote the Christian message, but anyone who knows the kind of world that is competing for the attention of young people today and the difficult issues that they face, must realize that a well-educated person needs to be capable of handling material, ideas and points of view that differ from our Christian beliefs.
The concern you express in your letter is well-taken and appreciated. I hope that you can find your way to seeing that some topics, as difficult and raw as they are to see and hear, can still be a vehicle for helping minds of young people to become more critical. After all, many books and plays present ideas and scenes which we reject as unchristian and even sinful, but we do not refuse to see read them or see them. Let’s not presume that because an idea, or a book, or a play is presented on a campus that it is being used to manipulate minds in a negative way. Our young people are bright and can be very sophisticated. They can also be naive and hold prejudices that need to be exposed and examined. I think that this is what we are doing here at Loyola and I am proud of this fact.
Sincerely, Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., President
I feel under-represented! :(
There is. An aboriginal Aussie 'show'. Yuck.
YESSSSS!
Feminism is evil.
Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., President, Loyola Chicago's use of the term "religious right" is telling.
It is amazing, isn't it, that the same people who claim to have been SO HORRIFIED at the abuse by priests think that this play, complete with the sexual abuse of a teenager by an older woman is 'liberating'.
A lot of the religious colleges and universities are not what they used to be. They should drop their religious name and call their schools "Secular" schools, because that is the road they have taken.
Yeah, Barney,, Be a hoot if the Pope ex-commed every Cath. in the U.S.A. even the SCOTUS ones.
It seems that similar problems happen to other institutions of various religious-based organizations on a regular basis. If the religious institutions are serious about problems within their denominations then they need to take action. If they aren't serious, then there never really was a problem to begin with or they will eventually deteriorate into oblivion.
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I don't think it even needs to be in light of that!! The content of that play is disgusting! What a surprise (not) that SLU is on the list. I hope that gets changed!!!
I can't believe anyone still goes. I mean, the initial shock value, for what it was ever worth, must have long since worn off.
And I have to wonder about any guys who agree to get dragged to these performances.
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