Posted on 02/11/2007 12:19:49 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
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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