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Weep, Seattle Catholics
The headline reads: “Planned Parenthood Decision Sparks Seattle U Protest.” In typical fashion, you can’t really tell what the story is about, except that it has to do with Planned Parenthood, Seattle University, and protests (a frequent pastime in Seattle). It’s probably not what you think, though.
Seattle University used to be a private, Jesuit University. Over the years, the school has strayed farther and farther from being really Catholic, and I’m pretty sure the majority of students there are no longer Catholic. The decision in question, taken by the President of the college, was not to include Planned Parenthood on an online list of medical-care resources. About 1,000 students, faculty, and alumni were protesting this decision! You know what color Seattle is (as blue or maybe red/communist as can be), and as I have pointed out before, progressives are progressive first, and everything else later, including Catholic. With Abortion as the Holy Sacrament of the Progressive movement, any action to discourage it is taken as an affront by the population.
I’m not even Catholic, but this story really makes me sad.
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Wow. Just amazing.
I will shed no more tears for the Jesuits (there are still a few good ones, but not many). The order may as well break away and form a new sect of protestantism where the clergy is married gays and abortion is celebrated as freedom. And maybe they’d like to take the Pope with them. That would be nice.
Even if it isn’t mentioned on the school site, there is this thing called Google. . .
I hate to say it after 12 years of Catholic school but the Pope would be comfortable there.
From the article:
As if “free discussion” means anything in the face of a lack of official association, which is literally violence. There is a standard for justice and equity and enlightenment, and that’s state-funded third-trimester abortions for nuns, and anything short of that is unacceptable.
I can see someone making that argument at a public university, but the narcissism of people who are unhappy that a Catholic school doesn’t associate with an abortion provider is . . . astonishing.
CAINO- Catholic In Name Only. There are some dissident alumni groups associated with Jesuit universities and colleges that are trying to right the boat.
William Peter Blatty, author of the Exorcist may be the most prominent name known in the collection of dissident Jesuit alumnus that are fighting the good fight. Although he had married four times, but after all the Catholic Church is for saints, and sinners-for respectable people the Anglican Church will do.
I’m saddened any time a traditional value is challenged by people whose ideology is “I don’t like it, so it must go.”
It is the responsibility of our bishops to ensure that schools and other organizations advertising themselves as Catholic must adhere to basic Catholic standards or else be legally prohibited from claiming to represent Catholicism.
The Church has become too tolerant of heretics, who should be tolerated to advocate error but not as representatives of Christianity. Such immoderate and unqualified tolerance results in the wanton confusion we have witnessed for generations, by which “cafeteria” beliefs commonly substitute for dogma and conscience is misunderstood as one’s own subjective feelings.
This is astonishing the stink made over something the college President shouldn’t do. It’s not like students (these are adults, I think) wouldn’t be able to figure out where PP is. They want a nominally Catholic institution to virtue signal over this. I don’t know what their revenue condition is in, but many institutions of higher education have to be concerned about remaining fiscally viable. It’s not like the protesters are going to withhold any charitable giving based on this decision, but charitable Catholics who currently support the college or are considering sending their children to such a place might choose to withhold funds should the institution adopt an obviously anti-Catholic position. I think the college is right to stick to their values. They know doing otherwise could hurt them in the pocketbook.