On March 7 and 8, 2016, the (Jesuit) University of San Francisco hosted the 15th Annual Global Women’s Rights Forum. The webpage for the event lists 26 separate sponsors from the University, including the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Office of the Provost, University Ministry, Theology and Religious Studies, Critical Diversity Studies and Peace and Justice Studies.
The event’s mission statement reads, in part: “Consistent with the Mission of the University of San Francisco, the Forum intends to promote and create knowledge that will fashion a more just world by challenging sexist, racist, heterosexist and classist values and societal structures worldwide.”
Subjects included “Transnational and Decolonial Feminisms: Mobilizing Women’s Human Rights From the Margins” and “Women’s Movements Through Media.” Speakers included author Pascha Bueno-Hansen, currently at the University of Delaware. On November 19, 2015 Bueno-Hansen told an audience at West Chester University that “Peru getting therapeutic abortion legalized is ‘a huge gain.’”
Bueno-Hansen’s support for abortion was echoed on the event’s Facebook page on the weeks leading up to the Forum.
On January 29, 2016 the organizers posted: “Just to let all of the Undergraduate students know of an opportunity coming up this summer, Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps (RRASC) 2016 applications are due this coming Monday, February 1st. RRASC is a paid summer internship program that places undergraduate students from around the country at reproductive rights and social justice organizations for ten-week summer internships.” The post also included a flyer from the RRASC for their spring conference ‘From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom.”
On March 3, 2016, the organizers posted a link to an editorial in the New York Times titled “What the Election Means for Reproductive Rights.” The Times, after lauded the positions of Bernie Saunders and Hilary Clinton on abortion-on-desire, noted “The Republican candidates, meanwhile, are all anti-choice,” to which the Forum’s Facebook administrator commented “With the passing of Super Tuesday, something we should think about as women.”
On March 5, 2016, the organizers posted a link to a story in Jezebel.com titled: “The Supreme Court’s Three Female Justices are Fighting Tooth and Nail for Reproductive Rights.” While some might think that the job of a Supreme Court Justice is to weigh evidence rather than ‘fighting tooth and nail’ for a particular agenda, the Forum’s Facebook administrator simply comments ‘Thankful these women have our backs.’
USF has long been bereft of any fidelity to its Catholic origins. There was the noble attempt by Fr. Joseph Fessio, Dr. Ray Dennehy, Professor John Galten and their colleagues to offer USF students the unmatched riches of Catholic social teaching–at the doomed St. Ignatius Institute—but that effort is now recognized as no more than a blip in USF’s continuous decline. While it may not be possible for the Archdiocese of San Francisco to have any concrete effect on the university’s corruption of Catholic principles of social justice, it is certainly possible for the Archdiocese to distance itself from that corruption by an unambiguous declaration that there is no longer anything Catholic about USF. That, at the least, can be done, and would fulfill the duty of defining what is, and is not Catholic social teaching. Such action was recently taken by Washington DC Cardinal Donald Wuerl when Georgetown decided to host Planned Parenthood director Cecile Richards. Cardinal Wuerl observed that “students, faculty, and the community at large are all impoverished, not enriched, when the institution’s Catholic identity is diluted or called into question by seemingly approving of ideas that are contrary to moral truth.”
It’s another USF masterpiece:
– “Fight sexism” by advancing one sex over ther other,
– “Advance reproductive rights” by promoting the sterilization of women,
– “Create a more just world” by giving legal entitlement for one person to rip apart another, in its mother’s womb.
Sure that all makes sense. At. U. S. F.
AT USF Law School the admittance let alone graduating of Catholics who support the Arch Bishop of San Francisco – is now either nil, or those who do make it are very very silent about what is said about their Church (or Defending it) at a ‘Catholic’ university.
How about that – Practicing Catholicism as a Bar to Admittance to USF, my my how far we have ‘progressed’. Ahem
Here is a story about the Lucrative field of ‘Twysted Systerhood’ in the pathetic farce of Academentia. I do not know of any other place it was ever ‘reported’ – by any ‘Lamesteam Media’ at all.
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Jail For UC Davis Embezzler
6-8-11 By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY
Former UC Davis official Jennifer Beeman was sentenced on – two felony counts of embezzlement and falsifying accounts.
Neither charge involved her falsification of campus sexual assault statistics.
For 16 years Beeman headed the UC Davis Campus Violence Prevention Program (CVPP)
= the highly touted administrator proved creative with statistics, charging that as many as 700 UC Davis students were victims of rape or attempted rape. UC Davis eventually acknowledged the…
Michael ….As you know, for decades colleges under reported rapes and other sexual assaults. Rapes are under reported by victims to begin with. In college, a woman was raped in my dorm and she begged us not to call the University Police.
Over reporting is just as bad because it leads to a unneeded climate of fear. What I don’t understand is how college sexual assaults relate to Larry Brinkin
It’s just so depressing to read. But it is an election year, and the depraved are out in numbers, courtesy of your local Jesuit school, oh, and Notre Dame, now honoring Joe Biden with the Laetare Award. I take comfort in the fact that somewhere out there, there are faithful Jesuits who are as upset as I.
GOD is the only one who has so-called “reproductive rights” to create a human child, in the mother’s womb! Only GOD!! USF is EVIL and has sold its soul, and the souls of all its students– to the Devil, since the close of the Second Vatican Council, in the 1960’s!
The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, includes three persons– the Bride, the Groom, and Christ! It is a HORROR and SACRILEGE to violate this Holy Sacrament, which is of God, and intended to be a pathway to SANCTIFY the Bride and Groom, and prepare them for Heaven! The senseless MURDER–ABORTION– of a CHILD, is a MORTAL SIN– and God Himself will avenge it! The false, “Judas Jesuits,” will be PUNISHED BY GOD for their HORRIFIC EVILS and their LIES to the students! SURRENDER TO GOD IMMEDIATELY, ALL YOU FALSE JESUITS– and GO TO CONFESSION!!
Dear Lady, have you tried it yourself? Couldn’t do any harm. Might even soften the ever-denunciatory, self-appointed judgmental posts. Did I miss the news appointing you “Supreme Moral Judge of Every Individual Conscience” (with rabid-speech oak leaf clusters)????
So pay for my abortion, don’t dare judge me, and let me be a Catholic priest then I will have my rights. What a sad and pathetic view of what “empowered” means.