Loyola Marymount University will welcome Olympian, activist and author Abby Wambach as the keynote speaker for the university’s 2022 undergraduate commencement exercises on May 7. Francisco C. Rodriguez, Ph.D., chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District, will address graduate students on May 8.
Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, FIFA World Cup Champion, and six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award. She was the United States’ leading scorer in the 2007 and 2011 Women’s World Cup tournaments and the 2004 and 2012 Olympics. A National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee, in 2015 Ms. Wambach was also included on the Time Magazine 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
An activist for equality and inclusion, she is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller “WOLFPACK” as well as the adaptation of “WOLFPACK” for the next generation, an instant New York Times bestseller.
Wambach is the host of “Abby’s Places” on ESPN+, in which she showcases what makes her beloved sport of soccer a worldwide sensation. She sits on the board of directors for the all-women-led nonprofit organization Together Rising. She lives in California with her wife, Glennon Doyle, and their three children.
Full story at newsroom.lmu.edu.
LMU is not Catholic. Why don’t they just admit it?
How can a woman have a wife? How can two women create three children of “theirs”? How can a Catholic university present an unholy person, a person who lives gravely contrary to Catholic morality, as a model for its graduates by granting her the distinction of addressing the graduates?
How? It boggles the mind.
If this is one of the 100 most influential people in the world, (yes, I am still laughing), we are in big trouble.
Explain to me how she (or whatever it is) is influential.
The College needs to be shuttered.
Lucifer’s Modernist University strikes again.
Oh that was perfect…bravo
LMU is out and proud.
Any word from the archdiocese?
Maybe she was chosen by all the racists at LMU because of her white supremacy (or at least privilege).
I pray that she find the God of Saint Ignatius. On the university website (linked) she is (proudly?) displaying a medal of a Saint (or Angel).
Her children deserve a father. As the Church teaches, to intentionally deprive a child of a father or a mother is a form of child abuse.
Our parishes, schools and other institutions would better serve wayward Catholics and all others if we remained faithful to our Lord and His teachings.
His Word is truth. (John 17:17)
Not sure what LMU is thinking. Strange is as stranger does. Darkness on the abode of death. So death shall be.
Two recent articles on this site – Thomas Aquinas Collage produced two priestly vocations, LMU to feature a radical lesbian graduation speaker.
Though both schools call themselves Catholic, LMU parents should demand a refund.
What an interesting contrast in schools do we see at Cal Catholic presently. Thomas Aquinas offers a deep Catholic education and sends young men to the Norbertines, while LMU offers as inspiration to its students a prominent lesbian athlete, apparently the darling of the new LGBTQ+ intelligentsia. What message is LMU preaching? To what do they desire their students to be converted? What is the end goal of their formation? Is it to share in the corruption of the Jesuits? How much more damage will this order do before they either die out or are suppressed?
Dan— Why are you asking us?
The Jesuits should be embarrassed and feel disgraced. Why does the school bother with having a theology department anymore? Why bother with having a chapel? Just convert the chapel into a pride or multicultural center and own what they really are.
Will all guests in attendance have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination and updated boosters?
I’m proud that I don’t have any LGBT friends or children or grandchildren. And I never will. That’s pride.
I hope you’re right. Yet, that may not be true (that you “never will”…). I know numerous children from practicing, devout, orthodox Catholic families suffering from same-sex attraction and gender confusion. It’s heartbreaking for parents and grandparents and those suffering such sexual confusion. Catholic young people are exposed to the same perverse educational and media influences as others and don’t always emerge unscathed.
And, as far as friends, or at least acquaintances, go, I hope that Christians are neighborly and caring about all others, including those who identify as LGBTQ. Otherwise, how will they hear about and maybe even experience the love of Christ?
They should not take pride in their perversity. But, we too should beware of pride.
Why do so many of “them” wear their hair like that?
LMU’s website:
“The University is institutionally committed to Roman Catholicism.”
Will the Archbishop hold them accountable? By his silence, is he saying that LMU can be trusted to give students a Catholic education, environment and all?
That statement on the LMU website is a blatant lie, and everyone there knows it. They are just playing a game. It’s a historically Catholic school and affiliated with the Jesuits, so they have to say something along those lines even if it’s not true. After all, the Jesuits are supposedly “institutionally committed to Roman Catholicism” too, but nobody believes most Jesuits have Catholic faith, and many Jesuits demonstrate that they don’t have Catholic faith.
As for Gomez, he’s shown himself to be weak when it comes to upholding, defending or maintaining Catholic orthodoxy.
LMU has certainly shut down their entire Science Department in order to welcome such ideas from such a person (I dare not say “woman”).
does anything normal
ever happen at LMU?
This is the spokesperson for the pay equity in women’s sports scam…Not only is LMU short on Catholic orthodoxy, they’re short on math and logic.
“The University is institutionally committed to Roman Catholicism.”
That University should be committed to an institution!
Did anyone commenting actually listen to her speech?
If not you should. Powerful message about standing up for yourself and others. Jesus would have been proud.