The following comes from a February 3 Cardinal Neman Society article by Justin Petrisek:
Following inquiries from The Cardinal Newman Society about a recent conference on campus promoting LGBT advocacy, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles deleted language from its website specifying that every group which sought to hold an event at the University would need approval from the administration “to ensure [the group] supports the mission of the university.”
On the weekend of January 16-17, LMU opened its facilities to a group of “LGBTQ/SSA Mormons, their families, friends, and church leaders” for a conference titled “Knit Together in Unity & Love.” The event included several LGBT rights advocates, including a transgender woman, and addressed topics such as “Thriving as a Gay Mormon,” “Learning how to be an effective Ally for LGBT Mormons” and “Supporting and Empowering our LGBT Young People.”
Last month, the Newman Society reached out to the Conference Services department at LMU regarding the approval process for conferences and if the University’s Catholic identity was a factor in the decision making process. University officials redirected the Newman Society to LMU’s spokesman Mason Stockstill, who did not respond to requests for comment.
Soon after the Newman Society’s inquiries, LMU’s Conference Services webpage was edited to remove any reference to the University’s Catholic mission.
A previous statement on the page (see screen grab image) read: “PLEASE NOTE: Each new group who visits our campus must be approved by the university administration to ensure it supports the mission of the university. Please send your Letter of Intent via email to conference@lmu.edu or fill out the online Information Request Form.”
But now, no mention of the University’s mission can be found on the page, and the sentence that mentioned support for LMU’s mission was changed to read: “PLEASE NOTE: All events are subject to university approval. Please send your Letter of Intent via email to conference@lmu.edu or fill out the online Information Request Form.”
Maybe LMU stands for Loyola Mormon University?
The vast majority of Catholic universities and colleges are more atheistic and pagan than Catholic. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen urged parents in the 1960’s not to send their children to Catholic colleges because the children would loose their faith. The United States has had over 45 years of heretical institutions of learning, and one can easily judge that they are not building up the Mystical Body of Christ, but instead are destroying and weakening the Catholic Church.
A quick point about LMU’s non-reply policy to inquiries: LMU pretty much doesn’t reply to anyone who raises basic moral objections to its policies. As a de facto business, its responses are public relations, first and last. This is the case from top to bottom, including the skeleton Jesuit presence. Still I enjoyed teaching the students over 39 years.
I hope you’re not suggesting that the “skeleton Jesuit presence” should be expected to have a different policy, or would if it were more substantial than merely “skeleton.” I think the better view is that the disintegration of LMU mirrors and flows from the disintegration of the Jesuit order itself. After all, this is an order, who, together with its insurers, paid out over $250 million in settlements as a result of its actions and omissions in the “abuse era.” Just start with that fact, and it is no surprise that not a single one of its 28 US colleges is on the Newman Society list of faithful schools.
I applaud LMU for deleting any mention of fostering a Catholic mission. At long last, it has come clean, told the truth and admitted what anyone with eyes to see has known for years. This “university” must place last among the choices of any successful high school graduates seeking admittance to a 4-year college. I’d love LMU to post the mean and median SAT scores of its students. I’ll bet 100:1 they are in the LOWEST quartile. LMU attracts dummies, and obliges them with the level of education it provides.
In the post-Vatican II years, the once-faithful Jesuits, with world-class universities– have sunk to the lowest levels of the backstreet-sewers of civilization, with their atheist, ignorant pagan, immoral trash, which they call “education.”
Catholic Universities were built with the donations of faithful Catholics to promote the fullness of faith in Jesus Christ. The newcomers in faculty, student, and administration dismiss this, misappropriating the intent of the donor for their novel expressions of indoctrination and infidelity. The brand Catholic is there, but there does not appear to be any real Catholic within, nor does it appear to be a care for the newcomers who just use the buildings built by faithful Catholics of yesteryear perverting the original intentions and mission while the newcomers worship their new gods.
Not only should they delete the regard to the Catholic Mission from its website, but all other catholic references as well. LMU is not Roman Catholic, just like the University of San Francisco. Like USF, LMU insults its matriarch, Our Lady. It would be better to call it Loyola Homosexual University (LHU), or Homosexual Loyola University (HLU) which could AKA: Hells Little University. All things catholic should be removed from this institution of non-higher but gutter-level education. Pray the rosary for all this evil and deception to stop.
This would not have happened in 1959!