[american colleen]

Yes, I knew a few Assumption Grads and I think I knew more about Catholicism than they did. I was talking about Confession yesterday with a friend of mine who graduated from Stonehill College (Holy Cross Fathers) in the early 80's. She said that they did away with it and she knows this is true because at college, the priests would, at gatherings, give everyone present general absolution. She's a fairly regular churchgoer. I asked her what she thought about "whoever's sins you forgive are forgiven and whoever's sins you retain are retained" in the bible, and she said "you don't believe everything in the bible, do you?"

[ThomasMore]

"you don't believe everything in the bible, do you?"

This is precisely the problem infecting the Church today. Dissident theology has been left unchecked! That's why Ave Maria College will be a great addition to the rest of the good Catholic Colleges.

Fr. Fessio is a great priest, too!

[Aquinasfan]

and she said "you don't believe everything in the bible, do you?"

Ouch. That has the ring of truth to it. I think parents who went to college in the '50s and early '60s had no idea that Catholic universities had disintegrated by the '70s. A lot of it had to do with the laicization of university boards of trustees in the late '60s, although heterodoxy spread within the hierarchy at the same time.