Posted on 02/11/2007 12:19:49 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matt 18:6.)
Scandalizing students nationwide, 23 Catholic colleges and universities intend to allow performances of the lewd "V***** Monologues" play, a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, and graphic descriptions of lesbian behavior. (Asterisks added for decency's sake)
After being forced to see the play as part of a class, Christopher, a student from Massachusetts wrote: “…it was a horrible exhibit of vice, lust, and infidelity. Everything about the play - the content, the performers, the atmosphere - was decidedly opposed to just about everything the Church teaches. The painful memories of lust and blasphemy still echo in the outer fringes of my mind.”
Nevertheless, prominent Catholic universities are listed to host the play during the next few weeks, including the University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, Fordham University, DePaul University and others.
It is difficult to fathom how any Catholic institution of higher learning would stoop so low and give open forum to a feminist play, which explicitly condones mortal sin, and promotes the corrosive agenda of the sexual revolution on campus.
You Can Join the Protest
As in previous years, together with the Cardinal Newman Society, Tradition Family Property Student Action is launching a nationwide protest. To instantly sign and send your e-protest, just click here:http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/monologues_2007.htm Your protest will be sent to 23 universities at once.
“This vile play is the antithesis of Catholic morality. So we hope to generate a barrage of protest messages and phone calls, urging these Catholic universities to cancel the play and stop the scandal,” said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie.
Protests are effective. In 2006, thirty-two Catholic institutions planned to allow the play. This year, however, only twenty-two Catholic universities appear willing to allow it on campus. Thousands of protest letters, e-mails, and phone calls can cause a public relations nightmare for college presidents.
The TFP applauds university officials who have had the courage to ban the play such as Rev. Brian Shanley, O.P., president of Providence College.
Bishop Criticizes Production
Bishop John M. D'Arcy of the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese, Indiana, criticizes the "V***** Monologues" in a two-page statement. He said it should have never played at the University of Notre Dame. “The play violates the truth about women, the truth about sexuality, the truth about male and female and the truth about the human body.”
"Freedom in the Catholic tradition, and even in the American political tradition, is not the right to do anything,” bishop D'Arcy said. “Freedom is the capacity to choose the good.”
Please defend Catholic morality and support Catholic students who struggle to keep their faith by signing a polite and respectful message of protest.
TO JOIN THE GROWING PROTEST, CLICK HERE. http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/monologues_2007.htm
Note: We are grateful to Mr. Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, for his efforts to stop this play on Catholic campuses. He kindly provided TFP Student Action with a list of campuses where “The V***** Monologues” is scheduled. The list below was compiled by the Cardinal Newman Society and will be updated as the protest develops, using the information CNS places on its web site:
2007 Performances of "The V***** Monologues" According to (vday.org, 1-29-2007)
Bellarmine University Dr. Joseph J. McGowan, President 2001 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY 40205 Phone: (800) 274-4723 E-mail: president@bellarmine.edu
Boston College Rev. William Leahy, S.J., President 18 Old Colony Rd., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Phone: (617) 552-8000 E-Mail: William.leahy.1@bc.edu
College of the Holy Cross Rev. Michael McFarland, S.J., President 1 College St., Worcester, MA 01610 Phone: (508) 793-2011 E-Mail: mmcfarla@holycross.edu
College of Mount Saint Vincent Dr. Charles Flynn, Jr., President 6301 Riverdale Ave., Riverdale, NY 10471 Phone: (718) 405- 3233 E-Mail: charles.flynn@mountsaintvincent.edu
College of Saint Benedict Dr. MaryAnn Baenninger, President 37 S. College Ave., St. Joseph, MN 46374 Phone: (320) 363-5505 E-Mail: mbaenninger@csbsju.edu
College of Saint Rose Dr. R. Mark Sullivan, President 432 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12203 Phone: (518) 454-5121 E-Mail: sullivam@mail.strose.edu
Cancelled! College of Saint Scholastica Dr. Larry Goodwin, President 1200 Kenwood Ave., Duluth, MN 55811 Phone: (218) 723-6033 E-mail: lgoodwin@css.edu
College of Santa Fe Dr. Mark Lombardi, President 1600 St. Michael's Drive Santa Fe, NM, 87505 Phone: (505) 473-6234 E-mail: president@csf.edu
DePaul University Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., President 55 E. Jackson Blvd., 22nd Fl, Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: (312) 362-8890 E-Mail: dholtsch@depaul.edu
Emmanuel College Sr. Janet Eisner, SND, President 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 Phone: (617) 735-9825 E-mail: pres@emmanuel.edu
Fordham University Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., President 441 E. Fordham Rd., Bronx, NY 10458 Phone: (718) 817-3000 E-Mail: president@fordham.edu
Georgetown University Dr. John DeGioia, President 37th & O Sts. NW, Washington, DC 20057 Phone: (202) 687-4134 E-Mail: president@georgetown.edu
John Carroll University Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., President 20700 N. Park Blvd., University Hts, OH 44118 Phone: (216) 397-4281 E-Mail: president@jcu.edu
Loyola University of Chicago Rev. Michael Garanzini, S.J., President 820 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611 Phone: (312) 915-6700 E-Mail: mgaranz@luc.edu
Loyola University of New Orleans Rev. Kevin W. Wildes, S.J., President 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 865-3847 E-Mail: wildesk@loyno.edu
New York Medical College Karl P. Adler, M.D., President 40 Sunshine Cottage Road, Valhalla, NY 10595 Phone: (914) 594-4600
Marquette University Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., President 615 N. 11th St., Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Phone: (414) 288-7223 E-Mail: robert.wild@marquette.edu
Regis College Dr. Mary Jane England, President 235 Wellesley St., Weston, MA 02493 Phone: (781) 768-7122 E-Mail: England@regiscollege.edu
Saint Mary's College of California Brother Ronald Gallagher, President 1928 St. Mary's Road, Moraga, CA 94556 Phone: 925-631-4203 E-mail: brg@stmarys-ca.edu
Saint Xavier University Dr. Judith Dwyer, President Warde Academic Center, Rm A225 3700 West 103rd St., Chicago, IL 60655 Phone: (773) 298-3309 E-Mail: jadwyer@sxu.edu
Santa Clara University Fr. Paul L Locatelli S.J., President Walsh Administration Building 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 Phone: (408) 554-4100 E-mail: plocatelli@scu.edu
University of Detroit Mercy Gerard L. Stockhausen, S.J., President 4001 W. McNichols Rd., P.O. Box 19900, Detroit, MI 48219 Phone: (313) 993-1455 E-Mail: gstock@udmercy.edu
University of Notre Dame Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: (574) 631-3903 E-Mail: john.i.jenkins.1@nd.edu
University of San Francisco Rev. Stephen A. Privett, S.J., President 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117 Phone: (415) 422-6762 E-Mail: privet@usfca.edu
Why in the heck would the Catholic church allow it's universities to encourage ANY bad behavior?
These colleges are no longer Catholic. They are the same institutions that have been handing out honorary degrees to pro-abortion Catholic politicians for years. IMHO, TFP make themselves look prudish by censoring the name of a bodypart. There is nothing obscene about the legitimate name of a bodypart.
To be quite honest, a lot of the schools cited here (Notre Dame, Georgetown) are only nominally Catholic at this point in time. "Real" Catholic schools are more along the lines of Franciscan and Ave Maria.
Prudish? Not really. The author of the V-Monologues wants everyone to use the word freely without any sense of decency -- to go ahead and fall into that feminist trap would be want the left wants. I won't do it.
Of course, I would like nothing more than to have such colleges sued by the Catholic Church for either defamation of character or for using her name while engaging in behavior that is totally unpermissable by her standards, but I know that that is a dream. Sigh.
At least I don't see Duquesne on the list. Sad for ND - my grand-dad is rolling over in his grave on that.
The V Mono's have been playing for years now at Catholic colleges.
Except they use the 4 letter version, c**t, and encourage the students in the audience to shout it out. If you still don't think it is obscene, start using it in your posts and see how quickly you get a time out (as I did when I referred to another freeper by that name). :)
I want to see the rope burns on his wrist where they tied him to a chair forcing him to watch.
Also, what's the mortal sin in the play?
Many private colleges around the country were originally founded as Protestant colleges, with stated Christian missions, but gradually fell away from the faith of their founders. Indeed, the first of them to do so was Harvard, which was originally a Puritan institution.
Most Catholic colleges were founded more recently, in response to a country that used to be mostly Protestant, and they remained Catholic until around the time of Vatican II. Many of them then fell away. The initiative to do so was formalized at the so-called Land o'Lakes Conference, which was led by Theodore Hesbergh, the former president of Notre Dame and perhaps the prime mischief maker. At that time, these colleges decided to put themselves under lay boards of trustees, and they basically took themselves out of the control of the bishops and the Church.
It remains to be seen whether they can afford to simply lose their Catholic identities and still draw enough students to survive. At the moment, that's the main pressure on them--fear that Catholic parents will no longer send their children there if they lose their Catholic names.
If a church is going to sponsor a college, it ought represent the church's teachings and principles - the way Liberty Univ represents Fallwell's evangelical values. As it is, some of these "catholic" colleges are training young people to work against Christianity and Christian principles.
Yet, in this case they do make it obscene. Isn't that interesting.
They put the name on this play to make us all say the word in an obscene context. Pretty crafty.
Most of these schools are not Catholic they are Jesuit schools.
That is the most discriptive sentence I have had the pleasure to read.
They are for the most part CINO colleges.
Sounds like you need new friends.
Whew. Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was an acronym for 'see you next time'. Guess I've just had LOL so far -- Lots of Luck.
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