‘Catholic’ universities endorse wide-ranging gay agenda
…..AND it seems the Jesuits are somehow defining themselves as outside the Church. There is almost too much to unpack in one article, it is that bad:
From March 3 through 6, an Expanding the Circle conference was held at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco. Expanding the Circle is an initiative of the California Institute of Integral Studies, and its stated purpose is “Creating an inclusive environment in higher education for LGBTQ students and studies.” Catholic universities were well represented [Indeed, shamefully well represented. What a very sad, sad thing. Souls are being placed more and more in mortal danger due to misguided, almost sick visions of charity and the triumph of false notions of inclusion over Truth and true Mercy.]
Titles of some of the workshops at the conference indicated the bias common to post-modern social science, that reality is a human construction: “Reimagining Sexual Desire and Spiritual Longing in Sacred Texts”; “Does G-d Really Hate Me: Reconstructing and Reinterpreting Challenging Religious Texts”; “(Re)vamping the Queericulum: Issues in the Teaching of Language and Sexuality”; “Imagining Queer Selves: LGBTQ Literature, Libraries, and the Coming Out Process”; and the near-parodic “Fostering Multivariate Inclusion: Multiple Marginalized Identities and the Interplay of Sexuality.”
Others, while more crudely titled, were quite clear: “That’s SO Gay: Queering the Curriculum in High Schools through Community Collaboration”; “Ripe for the Picking: Queer-Themed FIGs (First-Year Interest Groups)”, and “Building a Successful LGBTQ Program at Catholic Institutions.” [There is a conscious, concerted, well funded effort aimed at peeling away as many Catholics as possible from Church Doctrine, apparently under the misguided thought that the Church sets Doctrine not on Divine Revelation, but majority rule. All this will result in is much pain for many souls, and the risk of eternal damnation for some who will go to their deaths unrepentant, thinking it perfectly acceptable for 'Catholics' to reject Church Doctrine. Tragic.] The following Catholic schools participated: College of the Holy Cross, DePaul University, Dominican University, Georgetown University, Loyola Marymount University, Marian University, Marquette University, Santa Clara University, St. Anselm College, St. Edward’s University, St. Joseph’s University, St. Louis University, and the University of San Francisco. [Can any of these institutions still be viewed as Catholic in any meaningful sense any longer?]
One of the Catholic-led workshops was called “Ways of Proceeding: Deepening the Conversation between Campus Ministries & LBGTQ Communities,” described thusly: “The panelists will share their work at Catholic and Jesuit colleges in creating spaces for LGBTQ communities to work creatively and collaboratively with those in Campus Ministry. Panelists will explore how those working in Ministry can provide frameworks of legitimacy, care, and support for the creation of safe learning environments, and create support for students, faculty and staff. We will share our experiences and ask participants to come with their own in order to have an open conversation about the positive role that Campus Ministry can play in creating an inclusive campus.”
The “Ways of Seeing” workshop was led by Donal Godfrey, SJ, former head of the University Ministry at USF; Jim Schexnayder, SJ, the resource director at the Catholic Association for Lesbian and Gay Ministry; and Sivagami Subbaraman, the director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at Georgetown University.
Another Catholic-led event at Expanding the Circle was “OUT THERE: A Conference Meeting of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic and Jesuit Campuses.” [There it is again.....'Catholic AND Jesuit colleges.' Is this a tacit admission that Jesuit colleges can no longer be considered Catholic? Or is this the 'academic Jesuits' themselves placing themselves outside the Church? It's an odd turn of phrase, to be sure.]
From the description: “OUT THERE is a national meeting of scholars and student affairs personnel involved in LGBTQ issues on Catholic and Jesuit campuses….The purpose of this pre-conference meeting is to begin our exploration of how we can understand the nexus between sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression in the context of Catholic and Jesuit values and principles in higher education. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss their experiences and network with people from other Catholic institutions. Participants from other colleges and universities will be welcome.” Translation: here’s how you undermine the Church’s teaching regarding homosexuality on campus.
Participants in the OUT THERE event included Mike Duffy, director of the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at USF; Shirley McGuire, professor of psychology and president of the LGBTQ Caucus at USF; Sara Solloway, director of Student Retention and Success Programs and outreach director of the LGBTQ Caucus at USF; Sivagami Subbaraman, director of the LGBTQ Resource Center at Georgetown; and Michael A. Zampelli, SJ, rector of the Santa Clara University Jesuit Community. [It's important to get the names of those involved out there. This effort at undermining Church Doctrine needs to be known.]
Professor McGuire sits on the advisory board of the Lane Center at the USF, where she is joined by the openly homosexual Reverend Vincent Pizzuto, who abandoned his Catholic faith, and was ordained as a minister of the Celtic Christian Church in 2007. Despite his rejection of the Catholic faith, USF saw fit to name Reverend Pizzuto as director of the university’s Catholic Studies and Social Thought minor. [Good Lord!] McGuire and Pizzuto are joined on the Lane Center’s advisory board by Robert McElroy, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of San Francisco. [ummm......]
As I sated not too long ago, the future of Catholic higher ed is going to be found in a very few select colleges and universities remaining faithful to the Magisterium and engaged in largely from home, via internet.
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