Posted on 02/07/2005 11:42:49 AM PST by nonsumdignus
Michaela Beard, 19, would be a freshman in her second semester at the University of San Diego, had she not left the school in disgust after the fall semester of 2004. This young woman from Bakersfield enrolled at the school with the belief that she was embarking on a four-year journey that would make her a stronger, better informed Catholic. She learned within the first week of her stay there, before classes had even officially begun, that this belief was far from the truth. "When I visited the school," she says, "it was on a visiting day and it became clear to me later that the picture I had was not accurate."
Once enrolled as a student, Beard noticed during the freshman orientation activities an emphasis on "Catholic/ Christian" events. She attended a prayer service at which the students were invited to talk privately with a priest. "They told us to tell the priest just one sin, and they didn't call it confession. I think it was because they were trying to involve all the non-Catholic students."
Feeling doubtful about the watered-down penance service, Michaela refrained from taking part. "My first week, I got an e-mail about Coming-Out Awareness Week. A luncheon was hosted for people to come and share their coming-out experiences and support the homosexual community. I was shocked."
The e-mail Michaela received from the students group stated, "National Coming Out Awareness Week ... was created to promote awareness regarding the process of coming out in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) community as well as to demonstrate support for members of this community. This week in the University Center foyer, there will be a big poster that says, 'I support the LGBTQ Community.' If you do support this community, please sign your
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The Church is in a very sad state in America and Europe. Corrupting these kids is so EVIL. I see a very similar situation at my school.
Yup. Sounds like everything i have to go to. On sundays I cant sleep in because I have to drive and hour and fifteen min. to get to Mass. And the people who are in support of the gay movement here are, in my opinion, militant. And we also have some nutcase who, for example, writes slander towards those who know that Christ is present in Holy Communion.
This is hardly exclusive to Catholic schools. Just ask the folks at Baylor. They had their own version of corruption and immorality.
Ping
Beard later learned that the head minister belonged to a campus group called Rainbow Educators, which, on its website, states its mission as "aim[ing] to help the University of San Diego move toward greater awareness, knowledge, and inclusion of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) community.
Rainbow Educators???
Baylor's Baptist. It, too, has an obligation to live up and propagate the teachings of the Baptist faith, which (according to Baptists, anyway) have been clearly defined, unbroken, and separate for 2,000 years.
Even if we assume in arguendo that Baylor, being Baptist, is schismatic from The One True Faith, don't they have an obligation before God to not complicate their schism by adding immorality to it?
That's my article!! Does any one know any good Catholic schools...that don't encourage anti-Catholic ideas? Please let me know!
Is that the author's spelling goof -- Emmaus?
It was on the road to Emmaus when the apostles felt very lost that Christ did appear and explain things. Maybe this author doesn't know much about the Bible. Hmmmmm.
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