Posted on 01/12/2010 12:52:40 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
Send your instant e-protest to the president of DePaul, Fr. Dennis Holtschneider
This update contains disturbing news of a lewd theater play, scheduled for February 13-14 at DePaul University, America’s largest Catholic university with over 25,000 students. For several years, DePaul has hosted the V***** Monologues (asterisks added for modesty).
The play promotes:
* A Culture of Death, explicit discussions of sexuality, lesbian activity, and radical feminism.
The feminist play by Eve Ensler tramples purity, modesty and is degrading to women. It has no place on any Catholic campuses. The production is a propaganda piece for pro-abortion, pro-homosexual activists, especially on college campuses.
This is how one student described the play after seeing it:
"...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, whether it be about sexuality, abortion, contraception, holy matrimony, modesty, chastity, vulgarity, humility, reverence, you name it."
Join the Protest
I invite you to peacefully protest this offensive production by signing a ready-to-go message to Fr. Dennis Holtschneider, president of DePaul.
Politely ask him to cancel the play
Protests are very effective. In fact, several performances of the V-Monologues were canceled at Catholic colleges in previous years due to the large number of complaints from students, alumni, and concerned Catholics parents. For example, Fr. Brian J. Shanley, president of Providence College, stopped the play on campus in 2006.
He stated:
"Doubtless some will reply that this is a violation of artistic freedom. But artistic freedom on a Catholic campus cannot mean the complete license to perform or display any work of art regardless of its intellectual or moral content."
As Pope Benedict said in his 2008 visit to the U.S.:
"It is timely, then, to reflect on what is particular to our Catholic institutions. How do they contribute to the good of society through the Church's primary mission of evangelization?"
Contact information:
DePaul University
Fr. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., President
1 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
312-362-8000
DePaulPresidentsOffice@depaul.edu
“”Doubtless some will reply that this is a violation of artistic freedom. But artistic freedom on a Catholic campus cannot mean the complete license to perform or display any work of art regardless of its intellectual or moral content.”
I don’t think freedom of anything is a license to promote indecency regardless, but surprised this goes on on campuses of religious institutions.
I agree that the play is garbage, but ‘vagina’ is not a dirty word that needs to be censored.
By their OWN actions, not really Catholic anymore, then.
“Formerly Catholic, now secular DePaul University.”
‘Can’t anyone contain these troublesome priests?’
E-mail sent.
The gross thing about the Vagina Monologues is that the play encourages female child molestation of female children. I told Fr President that I have a family member who works in child abuse prevention, and she says that one of the truly horrifying things is that there are more and more women turning up as child molesters.
They are almost invariably encouraged by pornography. When they are interviewed, they tell her they watched female on female child molestation with their male partners, and they didn’t think there was anything wrong with it and it got their boyfriends excited.
Why is a Catholic university encouraging this?
As a DePaul student, I was disappointed to learn just how liberal the institution was, and that was in the late 70s and early 80s. As a grad, I am proud to say that I have never sent them a penny. DePaul is a branch of the Daily Political Machine (Richie was a DePaul law grad).
I’m sure that with that title the Good Father must have gotten confused and thought it was a lighthearted romantic musical comedy set in Merry Olde Victorian England /sarc
Perhaps he has mistaken it for a soliloquy on the history of a certain east coast US State (nicknamed “The Old Dominion”).
What will the consequences be for this?
What were the consequences for Notre Damn and Obama’s speech?
Ted Kennedy's extravaganza of a funeral?
So?....This church is the one and only true church? Really?
On the otherhand, homosexual pedophelia portrayed in a positive light has no place in Christianity regardless of the title of the work.
And that is part and parcel of Eve Ensler’s play.
penis, heart, lungs, knuckles
fully agree
If it’s not mandatory, then I don’t see the big deal. If it’s really offensive, I doubt anyone will go, or sit through the entire thing.
You mean like a beckoning virginia?
Take either phrase any way you like.
< leer >
Oh come off it. Questioning the legitimacy of the entire church, the VAST and ANCIENT Catholic church, on the basis of a few people is ridiculous. No church anywhere is staffed entirely by perfect people or for that matter people who will never do dumb ass things.
Well...I would agree with you if it were...say?...a few of my neighbors or friends.
But...Notre Dame, De Paul, Kennedy's funeral, and the continued participation of prominent pro-abortion politicians ( for example) require the cooperation of a **LOT** of very influential **leaders** of Catholic education and administration. The universities, in particular, are prominent institutions and representatives of the Catholic faith.
The people who allow this to continue are not few, nor are they unimportant.
Where are the consequences? If this is the fruit of the Church? Is this how we are to know them?
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