Red Skelton in Bathing Beauty.
And there was no identity crisis involved, just a man fighting for a runaway bride.
Posted on 11/28/2023 10:25:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
An exclusively female Catholic college will now allow men who identify as women to enroll, with the school's revised non-discrimination policy stating that an "inclusive campus experience" is essential to empowering women through education.
Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, will allow men who present themselves as women to apply for undergraduate admission in the fall of 2024. Notre Dame's student newspaper, The Observer, first reported the news about the change last Tuesday.
College President Katie Conboy told the faculty in an email last Tuesday that the institution will consider trans-identifying applicants. However, the school is still considering how to put the policy change into practice.
Earlier this year, Conboy assembled a "President's Task Force for Gender Identity and Expression" to gather information from other Catholic colleges and make recommendations about student housing policies.
"We are by no means the first Catholic women's college to adopt a policy with this scope," Conboy wrote. "In drafting the language for this update, I have relied on the guidance of the Executive Team and others to ensure that our message is not only in line with best practices for today's college students, but that it also encompasses our commitment to operate as a Catholic women's college."
Saint Mary's College did not immediately respond to The Christian Post's request for comment.
Clare Ann Ath, a St. Mary's alumna who serves as the government affairs manager for the pro-life group Human Coalition, criticized the decision in a Nov. 21 social media post questioning whether the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend had responded to the situation.
"Just found out my alma mater @saintmarys, an all-women's Catholic college, will be accepting BIOLOGICAL MEN starting next fall," Ath wrote. "This decision is blasphemous & a complete rejection of the Church and it's teachings on gender and sexuality."
According to the school's website, St. Mary's Board of Trustees approved a change to the college's non-discrimination policy in June 2023, a change that states the school considers admission for undergraduate applicants whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women. Graduate degree programs are open to all."
The policy further states that the college does not discriminate based on sexuality or gender identity, adding that it's in compliance with all federal laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
"The mission of Saint Mary's College is to empower women, through education, at all stages in life. Essential to this mission is fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus experience," the website states.
In the email sent to faculty members, Conboy cited Pope Francis' quote about loving people for who they are and how that love "'moves us to seek the best for their lives,'" The Daily Signal reported.
"The revised non-discrimination clause seeks to advance just this kind of community, where we honor the dignity of all persons who work at the college and we follow an inclusive admission process that retains our identity as a Catholic women's college," Conboy wrote.
As CP previously reported, Pope Francis invited a group of trans-identifying men to join him and about 1,000 other poor and homeless people for a lunch last Sunday. The event was intended to commemorate the Catholic Church's World Day of the Poor, according to The Associated Press.
According to the AP, Pope Francis grew closer to the group of trans-identifying individuals after he helped them during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group that joined him for the lunch consisted of Latin American migrants and prostitutes who lived in Torvaianica near Rome.
The luncheon came after the Vatican's doctrinal office issued a document explaining that trans-identified individuals can be baptized and serve as godparents in some circumstances.
However, Pope Francis has criticized transgenderism in the past, describing it to La Nacion in March as "one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations." He also noted that there is a difference between pastoral care for LGBT-identifying people and endorsing the lifestyle.
Red Skelton in Bathing Beauty.
And there was no identity crisis involved, just a man fighting for a runaway bride.
Wolves in Sheep’s clothing , there will be trouble
Pope Francis must GO!
There have been many Popes who were less than expected but this man is wicked crazy.
Fire him or he will lead the Church to the fires of Hell.
Walk. Away.
The Heresy continues.
What is the point in going to an all female college, if it’s not all female?
And before they redefined things they were and still are homosexual.
The Pope is crazy. I would never step into another Catholic church as long as they have the Pope they have now. I’m a Christian, and the Catholic Church is dead to me.
I know of people, the one’s who’s names go on bldgs., already informing St. Mary’s of pulling donations and gifts. Will money talk?
Pope Francis
School must be closing so hopes a few richies will keep them afloat.
I hope Lady Ballers inspires a whole group to join.
You cannot call anything or anyone no longer Catholic when leadership manifestly treats even liberal proabortion, prohomosexual public figures as members in life and in death. Since belief is shown by actions, as James 5:18 states, then by so doing, Rome effectually teaches her flock that such is the correct understanding of her own doctrine on who is a member.
In response to this and certain modern RC teachings, there arose various sects of "TradCaths," called those "Protestant" by some, since in polemics and practice, they hold that what the modern living magisterium teaches is only valid and authoritative if it is consistent with their own TradCath judgment of conformity with past (which period they variously interpret) church teaching.
Which they should, but with past church teaching being that of the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels) in which distinctive RC teachings are not manifest.
Is there Any institution that isn’t Totally corrupt???
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Stupid Question.
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The Administration of God Almighty
Is Our Rock and Jesus our Salvation!
Nope: Rome has...
Saint Mary's College
GOD love them apparitions!
Nuns have never had penises; so...
or faggots or queers
This reminds me of the first time I heard the “F-bomb” in the movies.. It was Barbara Streisand, and it seemed everyone in Hollywood was so proud of it.. What a great advancement in the theater, said they.! Go figure.. :(
There is always a remnant, thak God. May we (and I) seek to fully be one of those who work to make Christ and His Truth known and live accordingly, by the grace of God.
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