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(CNS) - The Cardinal Newman Society has confirmed that at least 12 Catholic colleges and universities will be hosting on-campus productions of the play The Vagina Monologues in 2013. That number is up from nine last year. Proceeds from performances at the University of San Francisco will support a group that advocates “reproductive justice” and homosexual rights. The V-Day organization reports that students at Marquette have plans for a performance benefiting Planned Parenthood. Catholic bishops and college presidents have pointed out that The V-Monologues distorts human sexuality and celebrates sinful behaviors, including lesbian activity and masturbation. One scene even declares...

Tuesday April 7, 2009 Student Producers Cancel Notre Dame Performances of ‘Vagina Monologues’ April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Student producers of The Vagina Monologues at the University of Notre Dame decided to cancel 2009 performances of the often criticized, verbally pornographic play, the student newspaper The Observer reports.  Both Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop D’Arcy and the Catholic education watchdog organization, The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), have been highly critical of Notre Dame administrators for past productions of the play.   “It is wonderful news that Notre Dame students will not host the Monologues this year,” said Patrick J. Reilly,...

Faith of Our Feminists by: Malcolm A. Kline, December 22, 2008 One of the oddities of modern-day Catholic higher education, particularly in institutions run by Jesuit priests, is that Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues seems to be more ubiquitous on such campuses than Nativity scenes or Crucifixes. Recently, Rev. Kenneth Himes, OFM, explained how the Theology department at Boston College came to sponsor such a production. In comments to Michael Reer, editor-in-chief of The Observer, the Catholic newspaper at BC, Rev. Himes laid out his rationale for giving the show the go-ahead at BC. His comments did not make it into...

‘Monologues’ Planned at 41 Catholic Colleges(Last Update: 1/19/04)Cardinal Newman Society has launched its annual protest of the “Vagina Monologues,” a vulgar play that is reportedly planned for 41 Catholic campuses beginning in February 2004.That number, which is likely to increase in coming weeks, is already more than the 32 Catholic colleges and universities that hosted or sponsored the production last spring.  It was canceled last year at another 14 colleges and universities, thanks in part to the vocal opposition of Cardinal Newman Society and its members.The Campaign has already had an impact.  A student organizing the play at the...

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matt 18:6.) Scandalizing students nationwide, 23 Catholic colleges and universities intend to allow performances of the lewd "V***** Monologues" play, a piece replete with sexual encounters, lust, and graphic descriptions of lesbian behavior. (Asterisks added for decency's sake) After being forced to see the play as part of a class, Christopher, a student from Massachusetts wrote: “…it was a horrible exhibit of...

by James K. Fitzpatrick Other Articles by James K. Fitzpatrick Backing Down at Notre Dame 05/09/06 Many Catholics were heartened by news reports that the new president of Notre Dame, Fr. John Jenkins, was going to prohibit performances of The Vagina Monologues at the university. I was on board, devoting a column a few weeks ago to a New York Times’s story in mid March about Jenkins’s willingness to take on the trendy secular leftists in regard to this play. In This Article...Selling Our Kids' Souls for Job SecuritySecularization: A Dagger in the Heart of the ChurchCatholic Teachers at Catholic Colleges...

When a professor at Slippery Rock chose to parody The Vagina Monologues with handbills for the fictitious play that incorporated the name of the male organ, fliers for the event were torn down by female members of the faculty, incensed at the use of academic freedom to satirize their favorite play, a professor from the Pennsylvania school told disbelieving state assemblymen. Professor Alan Levy also said students have complained to him that the education teachers said if there were a teacher strike and any of the students crossed picket lines, the teachers would see to it that they never got...

Kerry Walsh knew there'd be talk when a group of students proposed putting on "The Vagina Monologues" at the University of Notre Dame. The Eve Ensler play, based on discussions with 200 girls and women about their feelings for their anatomy, includes sections about homosexuality, orgasms and rape. "I knew from the get-go there was going to be some point where the university or someone would put their foot down and say, 'We really need to talk about this,'" said Walsh, who was a senior English major when she directed the play. Four years later, that time has come. The...

MANASSAS, VIRGINIA, United States, February 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Five Catholic universities have stated they will not permit the Vagina Monologues to be presented on campus, and four more say the play won’t appear, after a campaign by the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS) to stop performances of the offensive production on Catholic campuses. The Monologues is an obscene, sometimes pornographic “celebration” of women’s sexuality that focuses on lesbian sexual experiences and masturbation. The play encourages the use of vulgar and explicit sexual language, and glorifies the lesbian seduction of a young girl. The CNS contacted 29 Catholic colleges this year...

Dear Members of the Providence College Community:             Having spent my first six months trying to learn about the campus culture, I would like to inaugurate a series of letters reflecting on some of the most debated questions that I have heard discussed since I began my ministry as president.  I begin with the question of what is the most appropriate way for the Providence College community to work together to prevent violence against women.  Some people feel passionately that  the college ought to sponsor a V-Day production of The Vagina Monologues, and I have often been queried about...

TFP Student Action launches effort to restore modesty on Catholic campuses Feminist groups on twenty-one American Catholic Universities are planning a new assault against the Church’s traditional moral teaching, by organizing showings of the lewd play, “The V***** Monologues” in the weeks surrounding St. Valentine’s Day. (Asterisks added for modesty). TO SIGN YOUR E-CARD AND JOIN THE GROWING PROTEST, visit: http://tfp.org/student_action/php/monologues_2006.php The choice of St. Valentine’s Day is particularly offensive, since it is a feast day the Church instituted to honor three martyrs who died to defend the Faith. According to the Cardinal Newman Society1, the play is a conglomeration...

Debate is in full swing at the University of Notre Dame, where the new president has imposed limits on a gay parade and a sexual-themed play. University President the Rev. John Jenkins will allow performances of "The Vagina Monologues" only in a lecture hall and renamed the Queer Film Festival, saying both raise concerns at the Roman Catholic university.

Continuing its campaign to rid Catholic campuses of the offensive play “The Vagina Monologues,” the Cardinal Newman Society has urged the presidents of 28 Catholic colleges to cancel announced performances in February and March 2006. Three universities have already assured CNS that they will not permit the play, after CNS informed them of student performances announced by V-Day (www.vday.org), which organizes productions across the country. Very Rev. David O’Connell, CM, president of the Catholic University of America, Msgr. Harry C. Barrett, president of New York Medical College, and Rev. Anthony Figueiredo, Executive Director of Mission and Ministry at Seton Hall...

1. V-Day 2006 announced: Vagina Warriors - The New Revolution 2. Founder of The First V-Day Safe House Agnes Pareyio Named the United Nations in Kenya Person of the Year 3. Send A Message To U.S. Congress To Reauthorize VAWA This Year 1. V-Day 2006 Announced: Vagina Warriors - The New Revolution In 2006, there will be a "new revolution." V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls founded by playwright Eve Ensler, today announced "Vagina Warriors: The New Revolution" as the theme for the movement's 2006 campaigns and grassroots events. From Dar es Salaam to Charlotte,...

Blind feminists find nut, details at eleven Mike S. Adams (archive) March 17, 2005 | Print | Send In 2003, the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) at UNC-Wilmington embarrassed the university by placing an obscene advertisement for The Vagina Monologues (TVM) just outside the entrance to the school cafeteria. The sign, reading “p-----s unite,” was even seen by children entering the cafeteria with their parents. Last week, the WRC decided to advertise TVM on the lighted marquee in front of the university. Wilmington residents were greeted by the word “vagina” flashing in bright lights as they passed the university on the...

Carrying posters bearing Bible verses and bowing their heads in prayer, about 15 students gathered around the steps of South Dining Hall Wednesday to protest the speaker inside. Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, scheduled to appear as a luncheon guest, bypassed the protesters and declined their offer of a letter from Bishop John D'Arcy opposing the Monologues, said law student Becky Austen, one of the protesters. Austen said she and several other students asked the Fort Wayne-South Bend diocese to provide them copies of D'Arcy's statement to distribute. The statement - the bishop's second public disagreement with the University within...

The feast of St. Valentine has become a stage for feminists on 30 American Catholic Universities to attack the Church's traditional moral teaching. The feast of St. Valentine has become a stage for feminists on 30 American Catholic Universities to attack the Church's traditional moral teaching. Another St. Valentine’s Day "Massacre" Feminists on thirty American Catholic universities are planning a new St. Valentine's Day "Massacre," where the Church's traditional moral teaching is the victim, by organizing showings of the lewd play, "The V***** Monologues" in the weeks surrounding St. Valentine's Day. (Asterisks added for the sake of modesty).The choice...