DePaul Tramples Catholic Identity - Action Alert

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I never thought I’d ever read such upsetting news:

DePaul University – the largest Catholic university in America – plans to host a pro-homosexual conference called: “Out There: The Second National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses.”

To read more details, click here. tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/depaul_out_there_conference.htm

To protest now, click here. saprotest.tfp.org/Protest.aspx?id=4b4707f0-00ed-488f-baed-ba5971dc3631

You see, pro-homosexual activists are concocting new ways to uproot morality on Catholic campuses. If they succeed, authentic Catholic education might vanish forever.

Just fairly recently, at DePaul University:

*** A “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies” minor was created;
  • The lewd play The V-Monologues was performed;
  • “Coming Out Day” staged a public same-sex “Kiss-in”;
  • A male prostitute was a guest speaker;
  • Students were encouraged to dress in androgynous fashions; and
  • A seminar promoting same-sex “marriage” was held.**
The moral crisis on Catholic campuses makes my stomach turn. But you and I can’t burry on heads under the sand like ostriches and ignore reality. Charity demands that we speak out.

Please forward this message to your friends and thank you for not remaining silent.

God bless!
 
What is really sad is that it probably takes a Bishop’s permission to do so.
 
dmelosi said:
What is really sad is that it probably takes a Bishop’s permission to do so.
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A university (even a Catholic university) is an independent institution governed by a lay board. As such, the bishop really doesn’t have much, if any, control over it and what they decide to go about.
 
chicago said:
A university (even a Catholic university) is an independent institution governed by a lay board. As such, the bishop really doesn’t have much, if any, control over it and what they decide to go about.
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I sure did not know that.
 
John_R said:
I never thought I’d ever read such upsetting news:

DePaul University – the largest Catholic university in America – plans to host a pro-homosexual conference called: “Out There: The Second National Conference of Scholars and Student Affairs Personnel Involved in LGBTQ Issues on Catholic Campuses.”

To read more details, click here. tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/depaul_out_there_conference.htm

To protest now, click here. saprotest.tfp.org/Protest.aspx?id=4b4707f0-00ed-488f-baed-ba5971dc3631

You see, pro-homosexual activists are concocting new ways to uproot morality on Catholic campuses. If they succeed, authentic Catholic education might vanish forever.

Just fairly recently, at DePaul University:

*** A “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies” minor was created;**

*** The lewd play The V-Monologues was performed;**

*** “Coming Out Day” staged a public same-sex “Kiss-in”;**

*** A male prostitute was a guest speaker;**

*** Students were encouraged to dress in androgynous fashions; and**

*** A seminar promoting same-sex “marriage” was held.**

The moral crisis on Catholic campuses makes my stomach turn. But you and I can’t burry on heads under the sand like ostriches and ignore reality. Charity demands that we speak out.

Please forward this message to your friends and thank you for not remaining silent.

God bless!
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I guess it’s a Catholic school in name only. How sad.
 
Nothing new for them unfortunately. I think I recall reading just as much abominable stuff happening there in the past.

I think most people try to ignore what goes on over there and cross their fingers that their kids minds do not get warped with the evil propaganda they are exposed to there.

That is why parents ought to properly educate their kids way before sending them off to college on the Church’s teachings and warn them of the snares Satan puts right in front of them.
 
Riley259 said:
I guess it’s a Catholic school in name only. How sad.
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Many universties started as religious schools, then evolved into secular institutions. It seems to be a common pattern. The gerat European universities were almost all founded by the Church, then became secular instittions over time.

Harvard, Yale, and Northwestern were all founded by religious groups, then became self-sustaining and independent of their founders. I think we are seing the Catholic universities following the same path.
 
chicago said:
A university (even a Catholic university) is an independent institution governed by a lay board. As such, the bishop really doesn’t have much, if any, control over it and what they decide to go about.
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I think under the Church’s law the bishop has some control but this wouldn’t be recognized in civil law, as you say.
 
cor said:
I think under the Church’s law the bishop has some control but this wouldn’t be recognized in civil law, as you say.
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He is to give an ok to the theologians at the school. He has authority over the university ministry. He’s still the bishop and has a certain degree of say by his position. But many other problems exist. For instance, a university could have campuses in more than one diocese. Which bishop is responsible for what? Most Catholic colleges are under the sponsorship of a religious order. The bishop isn’t their primary authority, their religious superiors are. Since an independent board of directors typically controls the universities nowadays (rather than the religious orders, as in the past), he has even less pull. Maybe he could have worked something out with the religious superiors, but if the university president isn’t on the same page as the bishop and the lay board isn’t walking in lockstep, then he can’t really effect anything. Now, he could try to pull their recognition as a catholic institution. But that’s a pretty tough and significant step which generally is not going to happen without very bad relations and worst case scenarios. Whether it would even stick, who knows? Typically, Catholic colleges these days say something like “we are an institution in the Catholic tradition” which enables them to slime their way through anything.
 
I wonder if there is a funding way to assert some control? Or to remove all attachments to the school?

A lot of Universities are going down the path of liberalization…but at least it could be known that it is no-longer Catholic
 
Alert the Alum…they are a large source of their funding. More reasons to pray.
 
DePaul has been out there on the social left for a long time. Remember, it’s an urban school in the heart of the City of Chicago. So what else would you expect?

Of course, this was where John Dominic Crosan (of Jesus Seminar fame) was tenured, too.

In the past decade, they’ve been experiencing all kinds of growth and are building like the dickens (no pun intended - Dickens is a street that runs through their neighborhood).

If anything, there has probably been some positive changes in ministry and student run groups which are more orthodox have popped up in recent years. Perhaps in classroom courses in Catholic faith growth has come about also.

But, really, they’re not going to be hurt financially any way about it. Unless, perhaps, enrollment declines drastically. However, that isn’t likely going to happen, either. Afterall, the kind of people who would be most concerned about these sorts of issues probably aren’t going to attend or send their kids to this school, anyway.
 
Wasn’t John Domnic Crossan also from De Paul? Jesus Seminar and all that?

Well at least they have a pretty campus.
 
How disgusting and how very sad. What on earth is this world coming to when even the Catholic universities have disgusting morality like this. 😦 :mad:
 
This university is Catholic in name only. This sort of behavior is nothing new for DePaul. If sending your children to a Catholic university is a priority, this is not a university to even consider.
 
Very many “Catholic” universities in the United States are Catholic in name only. I work at one of them, and as far as I can tell, my school says it is Catholic only so students from Catholic families will attend. Every student at my university pays $30,000 to the school. I could tell many stories about my school, as when a Hindu was chairman of the theology department and the vigorous efforts of the non-Catholic professors, who are most of the professors there, to fight any vestige of Catholicism at my school. That said, though, De Paul has been a particularly flagrant example of the abandonment of Catholicism for years. (The Cardinal Newman Society though is fighting this development, and perhaps some people here might consider joining it, after checking it out.)
 
Besides certifying the theogy faculty (if he so chooses), the ordinary of the diocese may remove the “Catholic” desigation of a university, no matter who serves as administration of the school (if he so chooses).
Other than that, he has very little control over the institution.
 
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