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Posted on 10/20/2011 3:36:08 PM PDT by NYer
Fairfield University’s student newspaper The Mirror reports that Fairfield provided transportation for students to hear openly gay sex columnist Dan Savage bash the Catholic Church in his keynote address for the “Pro-Queer Life” conference on Saturday.
The lecture contradicts assurances reportedly made by Fairfield President Fr. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J., to Bishop William Lori that the conference would “not be a vehicle for dissent.”
The Jesuit university reportedly bussed students to Union Theological Seminary in New York as part of their “More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church,” an effort by Fairfield and Fordham Universities along with two non-denominational divinity schools to apparently cast doubt on Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
The Mirror reported that Savage:
…denounced the Bible as a credible source of model behavior, saying that sins, like masturbation, premarital sex and use of condoms and birth pills, once so adamantly prohibited in the past, can no longer be judged by the authorities of the church.
“We have got to ignore the b——t in the Bible about gay people, just as we’ve learned to ignore what the b——-t in the Bible have said about women … about polyester, about farming and about slavery,” said Savage.
Priests cannot see the sins of people, and according to Savage, homosexuality cannot be so easily judged from the outside.
“They can’t see past our homosexuality to see our shared and common humanity, which is hugely ironic considering how many of those priests behind those pulpits are gay,” he said.
In a slightly ironic twist, The Mirror reports that after Savage called for everyone to “see our shared and common humanity,” he called traditional marriage supporter Maggie Gallagher “vile.”
Savage’s lecture contradicts assurances to the bishops reportedly made by the presidents of Fairfield and Fordham Universities that the “More Than a Monologue” conferences, ”while sensitive to the experience of the participants, will not be a vehicle for dissent.” Those assurances were revealed in a September 22nd public statement by Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York and Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, following a letter from The Cardinal Newman Society requesting Archbishop Dolan’s intervention and public concern arising from The Cardinal Newman Society’s reports on the conference series.
Meredith Marquez, assistant director of Student Diversity Programs, felt Savage’s speech was a fitting opener for LGBTQ History month.
“I feel like while we’re celebrating LGBTQ people of America,” she said, “One of the pressing things that’s going on right now … are the suicides that have been happening. This event allows students to go and hear from probably the most popular and the funniest—definitely the funniest—and, I would argue, the most effective person to talk about this issue.”
Marquez also noted that the conversation between homosexuals and the Church needs to continue.
“To [Fairfield University], being Catholic is being accepting,” she said. “That’s how we can be the best Catholic institution if we live up to that mission. [It] is to be the most accepting that you can of all people. I am hoping that little messages will get through and it’s things like these that I would love all students will come to.”
As part of the same series Fairfield will host its part of “More Than a Monologue” with a “Care of Souls” conference on October 29th. The theme of the event, according to The Mirror is, “pastoral care of and by LGBTQ Catholics.”
Pray for the Jesuits!
The homosexuals invaded the Society of the Jesuits hundreds of years ago. I don’t know if all Jesuits are corrupted—some seem not to be-—but any Jesuit who thinks something as unnatural and demonic as homosexuality can be considered “good” is reading out of Satan’s book. It reminds me of the occult practices and the masonic practice of revering the architect of the world—with child sacrifices and Bohemian Grove homosexual orgies.
These occultists have to be kicked out of the Catholic Church—I know the Jesuits were at one point kicked out of the Church and they assasinated a pope or two. They were later allowed back in—but obviously some were still agents of the Devil.
The Catholic Church has to purge their ranks of these Satanists.
Not being specific and naming them seems a bit odd to me. Why aren't these two clearly identified?
Seminaries hosting seminars on “sexual diversity” in the church. They aught to be honest and say what they really want: “moral diversity”.
Voltaire was educated by the Jesuits but took potshots at them--in chapter 4 when Dr. Pangloss explains how he got syphilis, he traces its genealogy back to Christopher Columbus' shipmates, including a page who got it from a Jesuit who in turn had gotten it during his novitiate.
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Where in the Bible,Jewish or Christian,does it mention polyester?
The Jesuits should be suppressed once again.
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This is why I don’t believe the Catholic Church when they feign a position of pro-family. How could anyone believe them?
How many more letters could they possibly add to their group’s abbreviation?
My Pastor met Pope John Paul with five other Priests. One of them was introduced as a Jesuit. The Pope asked, “but are you a Catholic”. Go BC beat Va Tech!
Tell me when they have stood behind their claimed Pro-family stance; in substantive ways.
Tell me, which demographic makes up most of the dedicated pro-life activists? Which demographic contributes the most materially to the pro-life cause? Which one is establishing anti same-sex “marriage” councils in each of its parishes in Minnesota? Shall I go on?
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