Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

American Papist is reporting that the E.E.O.C. has found Belmont Abbey College discriminatory toward women in removing coverage for oral contraception from its health care package. This is a troubling story on a couple of levels. On the surface, it is just one more example of the socialist desire to eliminate religious freedom, and free association in general, in favor of statist programs of eugenics, and so forth. It exemplifies as well the fight that the Church has now in this country against the political regime of death, which is just going to worsen over time as long as the Democrats are in power.

But on another level, it would be inappropriate to think of Belmont Abbey College as an innocent victim in this. The discrimination complaint against the college was brought to the E.E.O.C. by faculty members, including a prominent, stupid, out-and-proud atheist psychologist — the head of the psychology department! She’s a mind-numbed feminist, of course (whom I won’t name), who thinks of the human person as just another biological system, and she teaches her students to think likewise. And she is representative of much of the faculty that they’ve hired in the past few decades!

For 3 decades or so, Belmont Abbey College did not care a wit for Catholic identity, when it came to the rubber hitting the road in its faculty hiring decisions. In recent years, they’ve put a new administration in place to try and clean things up, but it is questionable whether such ships as these can ever be brought back into port once they’ve gone past a certain point: as the new E.E.O.C. decision makes clear. They are going to have to make a tough decision. Keep going, and violate Church teachings, or close the doors of the college. Of course, the monastery, itself dwindling drastically and aging in numbers, has its share of monks who are perfectly aligned with the recalcitrant faculty. Rahner’s theology is never far from the lips of these people, and the liturgy there is like a fly stuck in 1970s amber.

The Abbot once told the community of the college that if push came to shove, he would close the doors of the college. Well, his own monastic community is responsible for letting things get to this point.

I suppose I shouldn’t be so hard on the psychology professor whom I just mentioned. After all, she is only doing what it is in her nature to do. If you don’t want to want to be eaten by a lion, don’t let one into your home!