Georgetown Visitation Alumnae Respond to 'Heartbreaking Betrayal'

The Catholic Herald (UK) ^ | 5/24/19 | Ed Condon

[marshmallow]

Former students criticised the decision announce the same-sex legal unions of graduates in its alumni magazine

Former students of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School have published an open letter challenging a recent decision they say undermines the Catholic identity of the school.

“The false choice you have set up, between embracing the truth of Catholic teaching and loving our LGBTQ sisters and brothers, is already spreading a culture of fear” graduates of Visitation wrote May 23, in response to the school’s recent decision to announce the same-sex legal unions of graduates in its alumni magazine.

“If Visitation’s leaders will not affirm Catholic teaching, the school cannot promise to be a home for students and teachers who do.”

Visitation’s policy change was announced earlier this month in an email sent to the school community by Sr Mary Birchmans VHM, who is head of the Salesian monastery that runs the school and the past-president of Visitation.

The graduates’ letter was published on the website of First Things magazine, and addressed to Birchmans.

“Above all else, we write with sadness,” the letter says, while outlining the alumnae’s concerns with the policy and the rationale offered for it.

Although Birchmans was the lone signatory of an email to the school community announcing the change in policy, a group of pro-LGBT former students indicated on a private Facebook group that they had been in contact with her and organized support for the decision.

In her May email to the school community, Birchmans said she had been “reflect[ing] upon what it means to Live Jesus in relationship with our LGBTQ alumnae.”

[Bonemaker]

Yeah, and how many of us have had once beloved alma maters turn into sh...all not donate a dime to anymore?

[Celtic Conservative]

Dear Georgetown, Romans: 1. Read it and get back to me.

CC