The following comes from a March 22 Santa Clara University press release:
Kevin O’Brien, S.J., an experienced ministerial leader with a background in theology, philosophy, and law, will be the new dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU). Fr. O’Brien, a Jesuit priest and Georgetown University’s Vice President for Mission and Ministry, will take the helm of JST-SCU on August 1, 2016.
JST-SCU is a leading institution in Catholic theological studies and ministry, providing seven graduate-level degrees to over 170 students, ordained and lay, representing more than 40 countries. JST-SCU is one of two theologates in the U.S. that provides advanced degrees and education to members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Roman Catholic Order of priests and brothers. Its Instituto Hispano is a thriving summer certification program to train pastoral ministers within Latino communities of the Church, and its Women of Wisdom and Action program provides advanced theological degrees to women religious leaders from under-resourced regions in Asia.
In his current role, Father O’Brien is responsible for promoting Georgetown’s Catholic and Jesuit educational and spiritual tradition throughout five campuses. Through seminars, retreats, immersions, and ministerial outreach, as well as through his leadership of the largest campus ministry program in the country, he manages a team of 47 employees.
Father O’Brien has written extensively on Ignatian spirituality and Catholic Social Thought. He is author of the award-winning book, The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life.
Does Georgetown have a good reputation for being a Catholic university that ensures that its students know their faith or is it a place that teaches in the “catholic tradition?”
Neither, and your alternatives are one and the same.
O’Brien is responsible for Georgetown’s Catholic tradition? What a joke. Next month, Georgetown is hosting Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood. The Cardinal Newman Society said that this “is the latest in a long history of scandal” at Georgetown, and by inviting Richards who “is herself responsible for the deaths of more than two million babies under her watch, Georgetown demonstrates that it does not understand the nature of a Catholic university.” Now O’Brien will be spreading his corruption further.
Last year, Dean O’Brien was a keynote speaker at IgnatianQ. “IgnatianQ: The Ignatian LGBTQ & Ally Conference is a student-led conference that focuses on the intersections of faith, sexuality, and social justice in a Jesuit campus context. IgnatianQ hopes to educate the whole person by creating safe spaces for dialogue, reconciliation, understanding, growth, and community building. The conference provides students with the opportunity to build their support network with students at Jesuit institutions all over the country as they continue LGBTQ work at their respective schools.”
Thank you for this insightful comment. Fr. Z reproduced it in his commentary of this CCD article.
I also found hilarious the comment that Shannon Minter, active in Lesbian affairs and now Barack Hussein Obama’s appointee is a transgendered ex-man. What I found hilarious is that he remains a guy that likes women but lacks the wedding tackle. It is a mad, mad, mad, world and we are the cast of characters in the play.
Purdue Chickens
by Prof. Mike Adams – http://www.townhall.com
https://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2016/03/14/purdue-chickens-n2132956
Members of Purdue Students for Life faced a torrent of criticism earlier this semester when they chalked the words “All Lives Matter” on university sidewalks. The group also created flyers using the slogan “Hands up, don’t abort,” based on the language of protestors in the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
In over a decade of working in campus activism I have never seen a pro-life group handed a better opportunity to seize the moral high ground in the abortion debate. Newman provided an unprecedented opportunity to accentuate the utter viciousness of the pro-choice movement. The vile, misogynistic…
Academentia = More or Less a ‘state of mind’, with emphasis on the latter. Just remember Hu told U. Ahem:
Harvard Editorial Executive: Due Process Supporters Are ‘Rape Apologists’
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/harvard-editorial-executive-due-process-supporters-are-rape-apologists
An editorial executive at the Harvard Crimson is decrying all people who believe in due process as “rape apologists.”
Harvard Crimson, Nian Hu laments over the allegedly “stymied” progress for alleged sexual assault survivors.
While admitting, “practically everyone agrees that rape is bad,” Hu writes those who believe in due process for individuals accused of rape are “rape apologists”:..
The problem is, they don’t consider themselves defenders of…
Remember – There’s Money in them thar Shills.
Far Worse – Those who are Real Victims are tarnished by Liars seeking to exploit Misandry (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) for fun (hating men) and profit (tax subsidy) and are shamelessly pandered to by craven bureaucrats fearful of the mau mauling in store if they don’t cave. In other words – Academentia:
Jail For UC Davis Embezzler
https://calwatchdog.com/2011/06/06/jail-for-uc-davis-embezzler/
Former UC Davis official Jennifer Beeman was sentenced on Thursday to 180 days in jail and five years probation – two felony counts of embezzlement and falsifying accounts. Neither charge involved her falsification of campus sexual assault statistics.
For 16…
I am putting this one on my reading list… Which is longer than my patience at times.
Ahem.
SEE
Saint Peter Damian — Part I
By Randy Engel https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/engel/160325
One of the greatest saints in the Church, Saint Peter Damian (1007–1072), an Italian Benedictine monk and hermit, Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia, a precursor of the Hildebrandine reform in the Church, a key figure in the moral and spiritual reformation of the lax and incontinent clergy of his time and a Doctor of the Church…
So impressed was I with Peter Damian’s work, that I opened a two-part series for Catholic Family News (June/July 2002) titled, “St. Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah – A Moral Blueprint for Our Times.”
Later, I expanded…