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Jesuits Accused of Catholicism

Belief Is Intolerable

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  February 12th, 2009 at 12:28 PM  | 

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Jesuit MissionariesA perfect display of what liberal “tolerance” means these days: apparently it’s now “intolerant” to put a crucifix in the classroom of a Catholic college. This comment is priceless:

But sophomore Alex LoVerde, 20, believes a crucifix “pushes the Catholic religion” and does not belong in a classroom. “I think the Jesuit tradition is more of openness and tolerance,” LoVerde said. “I think that an overt display of crucifixes is not what the Jesuits would have had in mind.”

Boston College really is failing its core educational mission if this sort of ignorance is common among its students.

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  • Alberta

    ?I think the Jesuit tradition is more of openness and tolerance,?

    Too funny.

  • ColbyS

    When a kid gets into college only to find out that he isn’t that good at engineering, he isn’t that good at pre-med biology, and he isn’t that good at business or economics, then the only thing left to get attention is Complaining 101. I’m sure he has a future in journalism.

    • gekster

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit

      and this is his second year?

  • USNJIMRET
  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    Even in Boston, most readers see that the protesters have crossed one boundary too far.

  • bk

     

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth
      • olsmithie
  • angryred

    Went to Fordham u and they billed themselves as ” a university in the catholic tradition”. Not a catholic university mind you. They have always been a little too liberal-then you get crackpot students like this!

  • Read Chesterton

    Ave Maria in Florida and the Franciscan University at Steubenville are two that come to mind offhand. The rest of the mainstream Catholic universities, the Notre Dames and Villanovas et al, have been steadily secularizing from the day they took their first federal dollar. Now, Moslem and/or gay/lesbian studies programs, and annual performances of “The V@gina Monologues” can be found at any you care to look in on.

    • Crowe

      n/t

      • Crowe

        …though they still have a ways to go.

    • JHancock

      Trinity U in San Antonio (Presbyterian by covenant) has both a Wikkin and a Satanist student group. When I went to school there they met in a conference room in the basement of the Campus Chapel, I think the GLBTI group and Muslem student groups might have met in the Chapel too, although the GLBTI usually met in the library.

  • Vladimir

    …and we get them back, fuller and mushier.

    • Vladimir

      At her graduation, the Chaplain played a prominent role since one of the seniors’ grandmother was killed in a car wreck on the way to the ceremony.

      The “Invocation” was the reading of a poem by Maya Angelou.

      The deceased grandmother was acknowledged, IIRC, with a moment of silence & “our thoughts go out to you”.

      The Chaplain judiciously avoided mention of a diety, a “force” or any kind of spiritual presence.

      So I sez to myself: What’s the point of this particular college having a chaplain? Why not a resident poet, a TV Guide or a subscription to the Self-Help Book-of-the-Month Club instead? If you really don’t believe in anything, why bother with the formalities: the vestments, the trappings of office & the Plastic Xanax smile?

  • Crowe

    A few years back Georgetown U folded to pressure and a misguided notion of tolerance and removed the crucifixes from their classrooms. One of the students who led the campaign to put them back was Muslim. He figured, “Hey, I knew I was coming to a Catholic university, so be Catholic. Don’t be less than you are. You can be sure that if you came to a Muslin university you’d see the crescent and star and Koranic verses prominently displayed.”

    Two other points: 1) If you don’t respect your own beliefs, why should anyone else? 2) If you don’t respect your own beliefs, how long before you stop respecting others’ and switch to persecuting them as you’ve done to yourself?

    • Martin Knight
      • Crowe

        …but I was working at Leadership Institute shortly thereafter and the version of the story I got was that the conservative group on campus, which had received training at LI and counted a Muslim among its leaders, made a big deal about it at the student level…

        perhaps we’re both right.

  • redgirlinIL

    I’m shocked, shocked to find that there is a crucifix seen here…I think the title “Jesuits Accused of Catholicism pretty much sums of the idiocy we call political correctness and the current interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

  • DONTREADONME

    The story leads you to believe most agree with the protest of the crucifix installation; however, that is not truly the case if you read the whole thing and think for a second. This is a non-story, it would have been a story if a court agreed with the student.

  • mbauer

    But in my Catholic upbringing, Jesuits were considered the navy seals of the clergy. Tolerance doesn’t come to mind as their unique concern.