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The weighty burden of administration at Gonzaga University…

 

Imagine what it must be like to be the President of Gonzaga University (GU)—a Jesuit, Catholic, and humanistic university—located in Spokane, Washington. Not only does GU’s President have to contend with the demands of a diverse and inclusive group of administrators, faculty, staff, and students but he also has to contend with the insufferable demands of a conservative Catholic alumni group—“The 1887 Trust”—whose mission is “to provide a source of information, a means of communication, and a collective voice to Gonzaga University alumni and others in the Gonzaga family who are concerned about preserving and recovering the Catholic identity of the University.”

According to the 1887 Trust’s latest bulletin, administrators, faculty, staff, and students—in the name of supporting GU’s mission—have successfully agitated to:

What the 1887 Trust wants GU’s President to do is to lead the institution in such a way that it gives “uncompromising witness” to the “Church’s moral teaching, and the defense of her freedom.”

Just how should GU’s President do that? By leading a “sexual revolution” on GU’s campus.

According to the 1887 Trust:

…We believe that Gonzaga University’s leadership is failing to fulfill its responsibility to uphold and defend its Catholic mission in the area of human sexuality. The failures are serious and the school has been failing for some time and so, yes, we believe a “revolution” in outlook and practice is required if Gonzaga is to mend its Catholic identity.

Imagine such audacity!

The 1887 Trust contends:

The revolt Gonzaga needs is one that’s staged by faithful Catholic students and faculty on campus and by board members who are concerned about the continued weakening of Gonzaga’s Catholic identity. Faithful Catholics should demand strong institutional support for magisterial teaching about sexual morality. Differing opinions are valued in academic settings, but Gonzaga’s institutional voice must be true to its mission…

Moreover:

One often hears Catholic university administrators and faculty say that “students must confront the issues of today and be prepared to encounter ‘the other’ and learn to be inclusive.” Somehow, the ‘others’ that our students are taught to encounter and appreciate are most often representatives of groups who wish to re-make the Church in their image, if not dismantle it altogether. The faculty members who are so very supportive of fostering encounters with those “on the margins” seldom seem to be as engaged in fostering an inclusive appreciation for what the Catholic Church actually teaches as the truth about human sexuality. It is long past time for a “radical and pervasive change” in Gonzaga’s approach to its Catholic identity. Call it a revolution, if you will, or call it metanoia. Either way, we believe it is worth working for, and praying for.

Isn’t this all so very sad, isn’t it? A GU alumni group that’s demanding the institution’s President to strengthen GU’s Catholic, Jesuit, and humanistic identity by providing appropriate institutional support to Catholic teaching concerning sexual morality. Aren’t alumni supposed to fork over $$$s and that’s it?

These Catholic right-wing nut wackos just don’t “get it,” do they?

Why won’t they just disappear into some empty Gothic-style Catholic Church where Mass is conducted in Latin? Administering GU would be so much easier, wouldn’t it?

 

 

 

To read The 1887 Trust’s latest bulletin, click on the following link:
http://www.1887trust.org/index.cfm?load=news&newsarticle=19

To read The Motley Monk’s daily blog, Omnibus, click on the following link:
http://www.richard-jacobs-blog.com/omnibus.html

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Foxfier
Admin
Tuesday, September 9, AD 2014 9:48am

Gonzaga’s in Spokane, not Seattle.

Opposite side of the state.

Feel free to delete this when you update the post.

Michael Baruzzini
Tuesday, September 9, AD 2014 10:18am

For those who may be interested, there is a similar group for Notre Dame, ‘The Sycamore Trust’.

http://www.projectsycamore.com/

Botolph
Botolph
Tuesday, September 9, AD 2014 10:54am

Don’t forget, it is not only those who love and participate in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite who are concerned for the Catholic Faith. Those who participate in the Ordinary Form do as well

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Tuesday, September 9, AD 2014 11:52am

Jesuits are very eager to have lay involvement in their institutions…unless …it’s “those” kinds of laity…

trackback
Tuesday, September 9, AD 2014 10:21pm

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Mary De Voe
Wednesday, September 10, AD 2014 6:38am

When the inmates are running the asylum, it pays to be schizophrenic.

Steve Phoenix
Steve Phoenix
Wednesday, September 10, AD 2014 3:18pm

Jesuit universities are undergoing “Catholic replacement” (much as the country is undergoing “population replacement”, replacing all us notoriously uncooperative citizens with a more compliant, dependent population). So what this means (with respect to Jesuit U’s) is, get rid of all those stupid demanding-Catholic-types, and bring in a multi-faith organization instead.

So, as for an example, the once-proud and architecturally impressive St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco, the once-proud flagship and official “College Church” of USF, a replica church of St. Paul’s-Outside-the-Walls near Rome, has now constructed a mehrab (Muslim prayer niche) inside the church along one of the side-altar/former confessional areas: see

http://cal-catholic.com/?p=15391

Essentially the mosque now is within the church. Now THIS is progress..

Micha Elyi
Micha Elyi
Friday, September 12, AD 2014 4:40am

Gonzaga is on the opposite side of something, that’s for sure.

Has the Pope suppressed the Jesuits yet?

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