Prestigious Loyola High School in L.A. received millions from pro-abortion businessman and current mayoral candidate, Rick Caruso, and named a building after him.
This is the account from a friend and alumnus of the school:
“The Xavier Center was a multi-use building in service while I attended Loyola Jesuit College Preparatory. The building hosted a variety of events, including student Masses. The center was named after St. Francis Xavier back in the 60s. It is no more. The saint has been bumped. The building that bore his name has been razed and replaced with the much more impressive Caruso Hall, which cost 30 million and debuted in March of ’21. You can’t miss Caruso Hall when you drive by or enter at the school’s main entrance.
The hall is named after Rick Caruso, Los Angeles mega-developer and property owner, billionaire, and chairman of the Loyola school board. (He might have resigned his board chairmanship very recently to concentrate on politics.) Rick Caruso is a major contender in L.A.’s current mayoral race. He is dominating the airwaves with his commercials. In his most recent ad, which I’ve seen a few times today, Caruso says he wants voters to be abundantly clear that he unequivocally supports a woman’s right to choose (to kill their pre-born child.)”
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world if he loses his soul?
The above comes from a May 22 Facebook posting by Astrid Bennet Gutierrez
As a Catholic, I am tired of having defend my Church against a bunch of sodomizing baby killers. Get rid of the name Loyola, and replace it with some pagan God and be done with it. I will be praying for the conversion of Caruso. It’s hard to tell if he’s a Mr, Mx, Ms, it. Whatever. I don’t want to be lied too. If it’s a Catholic School I want it to be faithful to the Love of Christ and trust that my children will be taught the Truth.
Prestigious Judas Iscariot makes donation for a prestigious cemetery.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier, pray for us.
Although the archbishop does not have direct control over this school, he could prohibit them from administering any sacraments there and from using the name “Catholic.” That would send a powerful message that we don’t tolerate, let alone honor and promote, baby killers in our church. Is Caruso still receiving Holy Communion?
Does the Archdiocese of Los Angeles have any kind of respect life ministry?
Rev. Gregory Goethals SJ, who is also a magician, receives accolades from the pro-abortion former Attorney General of ours and now Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra.
You can’t make this stuff up! Many within the Church are in a celebrate apostasy party. And, getting away with it!
Don’t you get it yet? The Archbishop doesn’t care. He doesn’t care to fix the RECongress, he doesn’t care about pro-abortion politicians, he doesn’t care about gays in parish ministry, he doesn’t care. He’s just hoping to keep things afloat until he makes it to retirement. He doesn’t care.
Actually, I kinda do get it. Even though I had some Jesuit education, I’m not stupid. My questions were somewhat rhetorical.
So, despite my search for anything definitive, I could find nothing indicating that Rick Caruso is anything but a cis-heterosexual man, who is married and his adult kids. Wheels stated “sodomizing” meaning that RC has perform oral sex on a man – where’s the evidence, or is that just a word used to denigrate RC so that you feel better about yourself and your proud, pro-life position. As for his prefix, again, I found nothing. I indeed DID find that he is not anti-LGBTQ+, and has given much in terms of philanthropy to various works. As for Loyola and the Caruso building, I get that you want a saint’s name on it to continue, but I think part of your struggle is with the fact that Caruso, a Catholic and billionaire, sometimes can do things that you cannot – give abundantly to those things which YOU would deem Catholic enough via your own view of what a Catholic man should be. Conversion to what? Re-Catholic? or just to the dogmatic, OT (in case you don’t know, OT means Old Testament, where God is rather punishing, etc., which Jesus himself said he gave us a NEW Covenant, but I digress). Be careful what you do – remember that Judgment is Mine sayeth the Lord, but too many on this site like to do exactly that – judge, condemn, deny others the grace which God offers to all.
Michael, you dance around the central issue of this thread: that Rick Caruso actively supports baby-killing. Your statement: “but I think part of your struggle is with the fact that Caruso, a Catholic and billionaire, sometimes can do things that you cannot ” is irrelevant to the matter at hand. Why is it so hard for you to see things straight on? It is no denial of grace to call sin for what it is, in fact, it is the denial of sin that prevents the working of grace.
Lola sez:
Rick Caruso just laid 30 million on me!
Hey, St. Francis Xavier – WHAT have you done for ME lately?
Unloyola is more like it.
Catholic school leaders & staff should sigh a contract to lead, live & teach Catholic Values. PERIOD.
At some Catholic schools, they do. I went to one and taught at one. Choose a truly Catholic school (even if it’s in your own home).
To see one such oath that faculty and staff take at one Catholic college, see the link here:
https://academics.franciscan.edu/oath-of-fidelity/#:~:text=In%20fulfilling%20the%20charge%20entrusted,any%20teachings%20contrary%20to%20it.
I pose the following query to my learned readers on this site. Let’s assume that a Catholic person decides to run for office in an area where many if not most are in fact pro-choice, but not necessarily pro-abortion – they agree with choice, and hope the choice is for life. They’re like most of the readers here – fixed in their belief, attend mass, receive communion, and privately support Planned Parenthood’s mission to provide medical needs in various parts of town. So the good Catholic (let’s make him a male, because let’s face it, I keep reading about wanting to go back to the “good ol’ days” of the 40’2 and 50’s when women were not viewed as politicians, but as future child bearing wives, home makers, and nurturing mothers). So “Joe” decides to run for office, and his advisors state that with just the Catholic vote, he won’t win election, and therefore cannot support programs that he thinks will benefit all of his potential constituents and perhaps even strengthen the Church’s influence. So he states the above: Pro-choice, but not pro-abortion because a woman has a right to decide. SO he gets grief and condemnation from a percentage of aged, greying mothers who religiously go to Mass daily, want the bishop to have a sincere chat with him, and if he doesn’t espouse a truly pro-life stance, he will be denied communion and perhaps even ex-communicated. So Joe looks at the voting numbers, and decides not to run because of the flack he’s taking from the more dogmatic crowd. Election polls show that a given percentage of Catholic women and men in fact will vote in secret that Joe is a good person and worth supporting, but it’s not enough against the one-issue dogmatics who would vote against Joe so long as he doesn’t show his rosary, beg forgiveness, and denounce any pro-choice stance.
“an area where many if not most are in fact pro-choice, but not necessarily pro-abortion – they agree with choice, and hope the choice is for life…’ Michael, you will have to prove to me that such exist in the real world. To illustrate the difficulty, let us take your next assertion: ” Pro-choice, but not pro-abortion because a woman has a right to decide..” a contradiction. If it’s just a woman’s choice the morality of the choice is removed and the choice becomes a right. A right by definition is to be embraced. Your caricatures in this post evince a disgust on your part for Catholic fidelity. You could at least be less obvious about it.
Pro-choice IS pro-abortion. It means you are okay with killing babies at some point, period! Don’t try to justify your culture of death. We see who you really are.
The Lord works in mysterious ways. Holy Spirit be upon us. In Jesus name we pray for the people of Los Angeles that we may be delivered from sin.