The Results are in for the “Hottest” Catholic School for 2007
The winner is … Fordham University, that little beacon of Jesuit controversy, and fresh off the heels of it’s US News & World Report ranking of the 70th best college in the country, continues to woo critics. The judges were not only impressed by the academics, but the school’s commitment “to prepare us as people with strong morals, values and ethical behavioral standards”.
Unfortunately, the morals, values and ethical behavioral standards of Fordham look to be notoriously secular, and consequently anti-catholic. It’s (Fordham legal dept.) public support for “gay” marriage, annual Vagina monologue presentations, pro-abortion graduation commencement speakers, and “gay” alliance associations, among others, may be hot for a series on MTV or Bravo, but they’re not Catholic.
It’s my suspicions that most Catholic colleges/universities have administrators and scholars who may have a underlying personal stake in fostering the culture of dissent. Both personal and professional lives have been defined by and built upon the same deep-seated beliefs that have put them at odds with the teachings of the Church, so the roots of the conflict between Catholic academia and Church authority are deeply personal. If only Fordham would amend their commitment to reducing their carbon footprint by 30% over the next 10 years, to include dissenting professors and administrators- our Catholic universities could have BOTH – less yellow AND more green.
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Much has changed since the days of Vince Lombardi, eh?
Comment by dad29 — August 15, 2007 @ 11:25 AM
If the Jesuits are doing such things, the Pope is not blameless.
They answer directly to him unlike other orders and he can stop such activity. For years on the net, we heard posters post which theologians were heretics while the same posters would praise the Pope in power while such theologians worked and wrote. Truman said the buck stops at the top…..not somewhere below the top. Yet we protect the papacy by in effect making it free of responsibility.
If Fordham supports gay marriage, it is the Pope’s job to put a stop to it.
Comment by bill bannon — August 16, 2007 @ 3:59 AM
Bill -
You seem to have a confused understanding of the Church. To cite Harry Truman as an authority for how the Church should work suggests that you are more informed in you ecclesiology by profane political structures than by the gospel and Church Teaching. To think of the Pope as a president, or a CEO, or the general of an army is quite mistaken. He is a father who, taking free will into account, has the responsibility to be the spiritual leader of his family and to use his paternal solicitude to bring the wayward back and help guard the faith of the faithful.
It it true that the Pope has the authority to demand that Catholic higher educational institutions are in concordance with Church teaching. This is exactly what JPTG did with Ex corde ecclesiae. I would suggest that you have no insight to say that you know what else he did or did not do in attempting to get bishops and religious schools to comply. Because many refuse and the Pope does not make public all he does in this regard provides no justification for your assertion.
Comment by David — August 16, 2007 @ 11:44 AM