USD Revokes Invitation to Feminist Theologian

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By Kathleen Gilbert SAN DIEGO, August 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The names of 61 faculty members who protested The Catholic University of San Diego’s (USD) refusal to offer radical pro-choice eco-feminist Rosemary Radford Ruether an honorary Theology chair have recently been made…

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Please consider the following:
Recently, the University of San Diego, a Catholic institution of higher education, extended a teaching position to a radical, anti-Catholic theologian. Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether, who refers to God as the feminine “Gaia,” was to become the Portman Chair for Roman Catholic Theology. Fortunately, the University rescinded their decision because of Dr. Ruether’s radical teaching.

Word of the University’s decision triggered a petition by several anti-Catholic organizations. They collected over 2,000 signatures demanding that the University of San Diego appoint Dr. Ruether to teach her anti-Catholic ideas. Over 60 members of the USD faculty, including nine members of the Theology Department, signed the pro-Ruether petition.

I am writing to ask you to stand with me in support of the University of San Diego’s decision to keep Dr. Ruether **COLOR=“Red”]out **]of Catholic education. It was the right decision, and shows the kind of academic leadership Pope Benedict asked Catholic educators to demonstrate when he visited the United States earlier this year.

Right now, Catholics from across the world are signing a petition to support the University of San Diego. We want to collect 4,000 signatures by the first day of class at USD—September 3, 2008. Will you help by signing the petition today?

Click on this link to sign the petition
brianmcdaniel.org/?page_id=662

Signing it is easy and fast.
Thank you for standing up for and being heard. 🙂
 
rharmony said:
Please consider the following:
Recently, the University of San Diego, a Catholic institution of higher education, extended a teaching position to a radical, anti-Catholic theologian. Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether, who refers to God as the feminine “Gaia,” was to become the Portman Chair for Roman Catholic Theology. Fortunately, the University rescinded their decision because of Dr. Ruether’s radical teaching.

Word of the University’s decision triggered a petition by several anti-Catholic organizations. They collected over 2,000 signatures demanding that the University of San Diego appoint Dr. Ruether to teach her anti-Catholic ideas. Over 60 members of the USD faculty, including nine members of the Theology Department, signed the pro-Ruether petition.

I am writing to ask you to stand with me in support of the University of San Diego’s decision to keep Dr. Ruether **COLOR=“Red”]out **]of Catholic education. It was the right decision, and shows the kind of academic leadership Pope Benedict asked Catholic educators to demonstrate when he visited the United States earlier this year.

Right now, Catholics from across the world are signing a petition to support the University of San Diego. We want to collect 4,000 signatures by the first day of class at USD—September 3, 2008. Will you help by signing the petition today?

Click on this link to sign the petition
brianmcdaniel.org/?page_id=662

Signing it is easy and fast.
Thank you for standing up for and being heard. 🙂
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I sent copies of this to deacons in parishes where I have a relationship. I sent one to the parish Dr. Radford Ruether probably attends. It’s ludicrously liberal, and I imagine more in sync with Radford Ruether than Rome.

No response yet. We’ll see.

Aside from that little glitch, it’s not a bad route to gathering signatures.😃
 
11 more names–woo-who!!!

Looks like the pastors and deacons are interested in supporting a Catholic college when they do the right thing.
 
manualman said:
Ruether is a real piece of work. Her worldview and beliefs are fundamentally incompatible with catholicism. In all intellectual honesty, she should admit that she isn’t catholic but rather eastern / new age mysticism. The only REAL reason she doesn’t do so is that there isn’t a wide network of new age universities and foundations with endowed chairs.

Read all about her in the book “Ungodly Rage.”
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Indeed, after reading Donna Steichen’s book, it didn’t take long for me to see the same names popping up again and again whenever pseudo-catholic “theologians” were cited.

Yup, signed the petition 😃
 
Lion_of_Narnia said:
Indeed, after reading Donna Steichen’s book, it didn’t take long for me to see the same names popping up again and again whenever pseudo-catholic “theologians” were cited.

Yup, signed the petition 😃
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Hi haven’t read Steichen, but I did sign the petition. I trust y’all. 😉
 
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