Posted on 12/10/2010 3:38:48 PM PST by concernedAmerican1
To determine the scope of the moral crisis affecting Catholic institutions of higher learning, TFP Student Action volunteers examined the official web sites of 244 Catholic universities and colleges in America. The results are alarming.
After careful research, the TFP survey discovered that 101 (41%) of Catholic universities and colleges currently list pro-homosexual student clubs on their web sites. Among Jesuit-run universities, however, the number increases to 100%. Many of these clubs sponsor events that promote the homosexual movement’s most radical agenda, the redefinition of marriage and the social acceptance of unnatural vice, which is contrary to Catholic moral teaching.
Here are some illustrative examples:
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“When Catholic students enroll at Catholic universities, their faith should be strengthened. But unfortunately, their faith is often weakened by the presence of pro-homosexual clubs and immoral events,” said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie. “Just like abortion, homosexual vice is part of the culture of death. It should be opposed, not promoted.”
“The homosexual movement is careful to advance slowly to avoid pushback. ‘Dialogue,’ ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ are just tools to reach a final stage: sexual anarchy,” he said. “When you drop a frog into boiling water, it jumps right out. But when you put the same frog in lukewarm water and increase the temperature slowly, the frog cooks to death without reacting. So, we need to speak up in charity and truth before it's too late.”
Compared to similar research conducted in 2009, this year’s study found that the number of pro-homosexual clubs slightly increased in 2010, from 96 to 101.
Urgent Appeal to Catholic Educators: Promote Purity
The dictatorship of relativism and its stifling political correctness have long infiltrated the halls of academia, including Catholic classrooms, where the homosexual movement works hard to warp the moral conscience of upcoming generations, and thus, move society away from God.
Therefore, it is vital to encourage Catholic educators and leaders, students and parents to boldly defend the truth and reject the homosexual agenda. We must peacefully call for the disbanding of pro-homosexual clubs on Catholic campuses. Purity is the answer -- a solution that needs to be highlighted, repeated and proclaimed.
In fact, God’s grace is working in souls. More and more students are rejecting the lies of the sexual revolution and embracing the virtues of purity, modesty and abstinence. Millions of teenagers and college students are choosing to remain virgins until marriage.
In his address to Catholic educators at the Catholic University of America in April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI said:
Teachers and administrators, whether in universities or schools, have the duty and privilege to ensure that students receive instruction in Catholic doctrine and practice. This requires that public witness to the way of Christ, as found in the Gospel and upheld by the Church's Magisterium, shapes all aspects of an institution's life, both inside and outside the classroom. Divergence from this vision weakens Catholic identity and, far from advancing freedom, inevitably leads to confusion, whether moral, intellectual or spiritual.
To help stem the tide of this growing confusion, TFP Student Action is launching an online protest, urging the presidents and administrators of Catholic universities to restore the Catholic identity of their institutions.
TFP Student Action has no intention to defame or disparage anyone with this campaign. We do not harbor personal hatred against any individual. By intellectually opposing individuals or organizations promoting the homosexual agenda, our only intent is to defend marriage, the family, Catholic education, and the precious remnants of Christian civilization in society.
Finding Solutions: Pray and Act
There are three ways to join this effort:
To report a problem on your campus, contact us at mail@tfpstudentaction.org.
Permission is granted to republish this article provided the content is clearly attributed to TFP Student Action with a live link to our web site: www.tfpstudentaction.org
No. Notre Dame is a pro muslim pro partial birth abortion s*** school. The stupid alumni only care about the ball team. A school who locks up people protesting BABY MURDER.
Can we still call the churches, Catholic??????
The stupid alumni only care about the ball team.That's really not true. First of all, most ND alums are not stupid, and second, thousands of them care about the Catholicity of Notre Dame.
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/studentlife/gaystraight.html
VU Home > Division of Student Life > Gay Straight Coalition
GAY STRAIGHT COALITION
The GSC is a group of students, faculty, and staff working together to build upon the Augustinian concept of community. In particular, the GSC seeks to foster understanding of sexual orientation within a Catholic Judeo-Christian environment.
What Are the Goals of the GSC?
To educate the Villanova community regarding issues of sexual orientation
To foster a welcoming community for gay and lesbian students
To combat homophobic attitudes on campus
How Can You Get Involved?
The GSC is open to all students interested in helping the group achieve its goals. We believe that homophobia is best overcome through the collaboration of both gay and straight people working together.
The GSC offers numerous programming opportunities to the campus community to inform, as well as change, attitudes regarding homosexuality. While always looking for innovative ideas from current and new members, some of the programming includes: panel discussions, guest speakers, movies, and programs in the residence halls.
Please consider joining to share your ideas!
Considering we gave Protestants the bible and the printing presses they were first printed on... The answer is yes.
Sure. Just understand that the members of these clubs have self-identified themselves as being in need of evangelization.
They have made it easy; you know who they are.
The administrators of these colleges are in need of evangelizing.
So...If these are Catholic colleges and the Catholic Church has not renounced them, what does that say about Catholic belief? Is it any wonder that non-Catholics have doubts about the truth of the so-called one and only true church?
I graduated from a Jesuit university and send my kids to Catholic high school but there is no way I would send them to 95% of America’s colleges and universities.
If there is no difference in moral teaching between Catholic and state universities, why waste the money on a “Catholic education?”
I meant America’s Catholic colleges and universities.
I graduated from Catholic University in 1993. Wasn’t Catholic then, probably not now.
Nothing at all -- but it may say something about Catholics in general, or the Catholic hierarchy in particular. Truth isn't true because of the vigor or skill with which it's defended. Poorly defended truth isn't "less true"; skillfully defended falsehood doesn't become truth by virtue of that defense.
Many CINO colleges have basically declared their independence from the church; they're run by boards of trustees, most/all of whom are laypeople, many of whom aren't even Catholics. Also, most of them essentially declared their intent to depart from authentic Catholic teaching way back in the 1960's, in something called the "Land O' Lakes Statement" (Google it).
Catholics who take their faith seriously shouldn't support these schools, and shouldn't send their children there. There are solid Catholic colleges which deserve our support.
Just for fun, visit the front pages of the websites of Franciscan, Thomas Aquinas, and Georgetown. On each website, see how hard you have to look to even know whether this is a Catholic school, and decide how you would answer the question, "How committed is this school to the Catholic faith?".
I’m under the impression that CUA (Catholic University of America) is much better now than it was in 1993. The Holy See, who is responsible for it, stepped in and steered them back toward sanity.
Christendom
The truth is that they are not Catholic.
In the 1960s, the US bishops, for some insanely stupid reason, figured that part of the role of laity should be to control U.S. Catholic colleges, so they surrendered authority of all U.S. universities to lay boards, without even assurances that the members on the boards be Catholic, let alone subscribe to Catholic teaching. Typically a “Catholic” university has one religious-order priest as a figure head, and is run otherwise by secularists.
There are, in fact, several layers of heirarchy insulating the University from Catholic criticism:
The board is wholly secular, and answers to anti-religious regional and state accreditation bureaus.
The Catholic figure-head works for the Board of Trustees, not his order. The order can only revoke his permission to serve at the University, but this would only remove the one person; many Catholic universities even have lay presidents.
The priests’ orders have been historically structured to make them immune to manipulation by corrupt tyrants who could have political influence over diocesan bishops in the days before the separation of Church from State. Thus, the only measure a diocesan bishop could take would be to expel the entire order from the diocese. This would not lead to the diocese gaining any control over the university, however. Several universities have been expelled from the Catholic Church, including the majority of Catholic universities in New York State, including St. John’s, the largest and most famous.
The bishop and the orders’ ordinary (an order’s equivalent to a bishop) share apostolic privilege with the pope. Short of a heresy trial, the pope’s authority to relieve a bishop of his duties is a scarcely tested one, which has almost always led to schism when the bishop refused; even with bishops busted for sexual assault, they resigned when facing the fact that their jail sentences made ruling their dioceses impractical. Several bishops have, in fact, refused to resign when their resignations were requested by the pope, such as Detroit auxiliary bishop Gumbleton. The fact that he was only an auxiliary bishop avoided it being recognized as formal schism.
In the event of schism, it’s quite possibly that U.S. law would interpret that all Catholic holding are property of the diocese, and not the Roman church. Faced with bankrupcy over sex abuse, in fact, the Catholic Church has promoted this understanding.
The truth is that they are not Catholic.
In the 1960s, the US bishops, for some insanely stupid reason, figured that part of the role of laity should be to control U.S. Catholic colleges, so they surrendered authority of all U.S. universities to lay boards, without even assurances that the members on the boards be Catholic, let alone subscribe to Catholic teaching. Typically a “Catholic” university has one religious-order priest as a figure head, and is run otherwise by secularists.
There are, in fact, several layers of heirarchy insulating the University from Catholic criticism:
The board is wholly secular, and answers to anti-religious regional and state accreditation bureaus.
The Catholic figure-head works for the Board of Trustees, not his order. The order can only revoke his permission to serve at the University, but this would only remove the one person; many Catholic universities even have lay presidents.
The priests’ orders have been historically structured to make them immune to manipulation by corrupt tyrants who could have political influence over diocesan bishops in the days before the separation of Church from State. Thus, the only measure a diocesan bishop could take would be to expel the entire order from the diocese. This would not lead to the diocese gaining any control over the university, however. Several universities have been expelled from the Catholic Church, including the majority of Catholic universities in New York State, including St. John’s, the largest and most famous.
The bishop and the orders’ ordinary (an order’s equivalent to a bishop) share apostolic privilege with the pope. Short of a heresy trial, the pope’s authority to relieve a bishop of his duties is a scarcely tested one, which has almost always led to schism when the bishop refused; even with bishops busted for sexual assault, they resigned when facing the fact that their jail sentences made ruling their dioceses impractical. Several bishops have, in fact, refused to resign when their resignations were requested by the pope, such as Detroit auxiliary bishop Gumbleton. The fact that he was only an auxiliary bishop avoided it being recognized as formal schism.
In the event of schism, it’s quite possibly that U.S. law would interpret that all Catholic holding are property of the diocese, and not the Roman church. Faced with bankrupcy over sex abuse, in fact, the Catholic Church has promoted this understanding.
>> Just for fun, visit the front pages of the websites of Franciscan, Thomas Aquinas, and Georgetown. On each website, see how hard you have to look to even know whether this is a Catholic school, and decide how you would answer the question, “How committed is this school to the Catholic faith?”. <<
Contrarily, St. John’s, which is no longer Catholic, does everything it can to seem like it is still Catholic.
There are a decent handful of Catholic schools out there that are trying, and at these one can still obtain a Catholic education.
Yet,... Catholics are surprised when non-Catholics reject the statement that the Catholic Church is the one true church of Christ on earth.
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