Gonzaga Denies Knights of Columbus Student Group Because it’s Catholic

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Francoist said:
We must disagree on this it seems. I think that if someone goes to a pagan school then they will know that when paganism is taught to them, it is the opinion of pagans. If someone goes to a Catholic school and is taught paganism, they will become confused and think that Catholics may believe this way. So to me it seems more dangerous.

I’m not trying to hurt anyone’s feelings. I see these places as very dangerous. People actually have souls, and those souls are often placed in jeopardy. This is not an abstract question. It’s a question of helping to keep people out of Hell.
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I guess we do disagree. You must come from a very Catholic and religious background, since, despite this odd event with Gonzaga, all Catholic schools (including Georgetown) seem pretty religious to me. But I’m stuck in one of the most liberal states in the nation. 🤷

I admit that there may be some problems at some Catholic schools, but nearly everything I have read online by someone from Marquette has been orthodox. I’ve also read online (from (former?) a Marquette student) that the theology department seems quite orthodox but it is partially offset by a liberal social “justice” crowd. So I stand by that I think it depends on the crowd you hang out with.
 
CrossofChrist said:
I’d bet Jesuit universities are much better for a child than almost all other universities in the US. The chance is much higher to find a group of faithful Catholics than at a public school or even a nonreligious private school.
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Except that you have unfaithful groups of people claiming to be Catholic at the “catholic” schools, so it is easier to get the wool pulled over your eyes so to speak.

I went to a CINO college, I knew to avoid the most outrageous examples (and lucked out with my required theology professor). Others were not so luckily (usually those who had nuns as professors), and it was no wonder, kids with 12 years of Catholic schooling, didn’t even know basic bible stories, much less anything real about the Church. It was just that easy for “campus ministry” and “liberated nuns” to convince these poor saps, that the hierarchy was bogus and that the real Jesus was a gay revolutionary who was actually a woman.
 
jilly4ski said:
Except that you have unfaithful groups of people claiming to be Catholic at the “catholic” schools, so it is easier to get the wool pulled over your eyes so to speak.

I went to a CINO college, I knew to avoid the most outrageous examples (and lucked out with my required theology professor). Others were not so luckily (usually those who had nuns as professors), and it was no wonder, kids with 12 years of Catholic schooling, didn’t even know basic bible stories, much less anything real about the Church. It was just that easy for “campus ministry” and “liberated nuns” to convince these poor saps, that the hierarchy was bogus and that the real Jesus was a gay revolutionary who was actually a woman.
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I have a lot of friends that went to Saint Louis Univ, Marquette, Villanova, Notre Dame and they all seem like pretty good Catholics to me. Not that I don’t think that these schools should be better regarding adherence to Catholic teaching, I absolutely believe they should. I’m just saying that my experience says they come out pretty good. Maybe it’s skewed a bit because I know most of them through our kids going to Catholic grade schools and high schools together. So maybe that is a filter of sorts. There is a balance between exposure and censorship. More often than not especially with 18-24 yr olds, your going to get exposure. That could/should be a good thing. It’s how you deal with it and manage it that makes the difference. A good, conscientious, nice person will usually survive. Isn’t that what universities are intended to do, to a certain extent, separate the wheat from the chaffe. Undoubtedlty and perhaps unnecessarily, there is a lot of temptation in the world and it is concentrated, focused and aimed at our kids. Intuitively, censorship just rubs people the wrong way. I guess like a lot of issues we discuss here at CAF it comes down to free will. There are a lot of people who want to tell other people what to do and how to think. It just doesn’t work.

***Educate, evangelize, enlighten… those are the keys… people need to choose to be good practicing Catholics…

Tune in to the Holy Spirit… Turn On to Jesus Christ… Drop Out of the culture of death…***
 
jilly4ski said:
Except that you have unfaithful groups of people claiming to be Catholic at the “catholic” schools, so it is easier to get the wool pulled over your eyes so to speak.
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You’ll have that at any school, except at a nonCatholic school you’ll also have more people “in your face” about secular liberalism.
 
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