The following comes from a current posting on the website of St. Mary’s College in Moraga.
Theresa Sparks is one among seven planned speakers. She is executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.
THERESA SPARKS
“The Emerging TGNC (Trans-Gender-Non-Conforming) Community: Challenges and Opportunities”
1/28/15, 1pm, Hagerty Lounge
Theresa Sparks, executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, addresses advocacy for basic human rights for the transgender community.
For the last two decades academics, intellectuals and activists have been advocating for establishing basic human rights for the transgender community, from health care, to identity, safety and employment. These groups have primarily been working towards creating space for trans-people within the traditional gender binary. During this period, tremendous gains have been made but there are enormous challenges still to be addressed. Over the last few years, a different aspect of gender has begun to emerge in the community, that of gender fluidity / queer / non-conforming and other identities outside of the binary. This growing concept is stretching the boundaries of current thought, presenting new challenges and opportunities. Currently the community is leading the discussion. It is essential that academic, intellectual and government institutions get more involved in developing research, strategies and messaging to support this contemporary movement to further expand the boundaries of gender.
To read the original posting, click here.
St. Mary’s College of California advertises itself as a “Catholic” College on its web site. And is therefore under the auspices of the Diocese Bishop.
It is located in Moraga, CA.
Moraga is in the Diocese of Oakland under Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ.
All Californians please contact Bishop Barber and ask him to ENFORCE –
Apostolic Constitution – “EX CORDE ECCLESIAE” as required, or to no longer allow this College to call themselves “Catholic”.
1) Send the Bishop this article.
2) Send him a link or a copy to the required Apostolic Constitution for all Catholic Colleges and Universities:
” EX CORDE ECCLESIAE ”
https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_15081990_ex-corde-ecclesiae_en.html
3) Send him a link or copy of this portion of the Code of Canon Law:
Book III, Title III, Catholic Education # 793 – 821.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM
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Faithful Catholics must stand up and be heard.
CCC: ” 907 In accord with the knowledge, competence, and preeminence which they possess, [lay people] have the right and even at times a duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church,
and they have a right to make their opinion known to the other Christian faithful,
with due regard to the integrity of faith and morals and reverence toward their pastors, and with consideration for the common good and the dignity of persons. “
Last I checked Holy Names had Removed the Crucifixes but left the nail holes where they used to hang – and as such is seen as ‘Progressively Catholic’ – mostly by those who Despise the Church & Its Wise Moral Teachings.
SEE
Religion Journal; At One Catholic College, Crucifixes Make a Comeback
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/12/nyregion/religion-journal-at-one-catholic-college-crucifixes-make-a-comeback.html
…There was a time, when crucifixes in the classroom of a Catholic college…were a fundamental reminder of a college’s mission and method and of the way in which faith and scholarship could meld.
– Crucifixes began to disappear from classrooms in many other of the nation’s more than 200 Catholic colleges, including Georgetown, Fairfield and Fordham…
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, too, a wariness of organized religion became intellectually fashionable and unambiguous signs of religion were out of vogue. Multiculturalism became a buzzword…
In 1990, Pope John Paul II released a statement on higher education called ”Ex Corde Ecclesiae, From the Heart of the Church,”
a directive on the religious identity and mission of Catholic colleges, which called for educators to reconnect their institutions to Catholicism.
Patrick Reilly, of the Cardinal Newman Society… said the directive sparked a realization that for some students Catholicism had turned into nothing more than an accent on some campuses.
”There was suddenly all this talk about Catholic identity,” he said, ”and then we looked at the walls and said, ‘What happened to the crosses?”’
Michael,
Many of us have become convinced that encyclicals such “Ex Corde Eclesiae” were just efforts to pacify and silence the faithful, and we have come to that conclusion because of the seemingly total lack of enforcement!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
The California Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to take a position on the 2014 California DEMCRATIC Party’s Platform (goals)
whereby the Democrats support sex change operations
and hormones for life
of all those wishing to have these operations – at the expense of ALL taxpayers.
The 2014 California Democratic Party Platform can be found on the internet.
(In addition this CA Democratic Platform (goals) supports euthanasia – death with dignity – at the expense of ALL taxpayers.
Support for sodomy marriage, abortion, and embryonic stem cell research continues at the expense of ALL taxpayers.
Where are our CA Bishops? Sleeping?
Contact the CA Bishops and ask them to do their educating job by teaching on these issues.)
PETE,
Those “bishops” that are sleeping through all of this evil will wake up in HELL!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
In other words “Your False Catholic” in your “thinking”, St. Peter was a fool when he told the Sanhedrin that it is better to obey God than to obey man!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
Um no, sorry, please don’t put words in my mouth, MIster Fisher.
“Dares to tread. . . ?” A ridiculous comment on what is really just another example of a “Catholic” school showing that it is on the same team as virtually every other college in America. St. Mary’s, in other words, is one of the thousands of lemming-like schools that all want to show that they are in the same Liberal club, especially when it comes to acceptance of liberal sexual ethics.
The point is simply this, the Bolsheviks have won, at least to date. They are simply going about their business of consolidating power, and re-educating those under their influence about the wonders of — what? — the New Catholic outlook on all things sexual.
And do you wonder about why there is so much focus on sexuality under the New Dictators? Certainly, sexual modesty and personal holiness must be important to God, because the Devil tries every which way to misdirect us on such things. Most people agree that you should not murder, steal, covet (well, almost), and all of that. But few, very few, agree that living a sexually modest life is preferable to God. Wait, wait — God made me this way. Don’t I have a right to love, to fulfill my destiny as a human animal? Huh, huh??? Certainly, little Hugh Hefner; enjoy the Playmates, it is, after all, America’s ideal.
Despite surgical mutilation and “Women’s Clothes” (kind of like the male drag queens preening as ‘systems of indulgence’) – Sparky still fails at HIs trans-parently phony Impersonation of a Real Woman…
And yet in the Orwellian nightmare world of Academmentia and a CA legislature not fit to pass gas – these are actually applauded as just one more means of Destroying the Hated Herero-Patriarchy…
– By Forcing (soon via Jail Time for Thought Crime) citizens to not just go along with the Charade – But Actually Believe the Lie – Or Else…
No matter how ludicrous the flaming hoops of insanity they must jump through in order to prove their ‘tolerance’.
Dr. Anthony Daniels (writing as Theodore Dalrymple) correctly observed that the Real purpose of such Propaganda Scams is: “…not to persuade or convince, nor to inform,
but to humiliate;
and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.
A society of emasculated liars is easy to control…”
Sparky essentially admits such when He Said: “most people don’t realize He is transgender until He speaks…”
“I had surgery on my vocal chords, which could have left me without a voice.
Finally at some point, you just kind of give up. You know, it is what it is.”
Right – and What Sparky is -Is Male
Once again, excellent post St. Christopher. Since when do Satan’s minions “dare” to tread on their own master’s handiwork. These minions are more fearful and dread pleasing God. Through the slavery of an attachment to habitual mortal sin, these slavish minions are more than happy to do the devil’s bidding. If you do not believe this then take one look above at that blissfully smiling face. Sister Lucia of Fatima called this worldwide sweeping phenomenon, “diabolical disorientation”
How pleased is the father of lies, peering up through the roaring flames of hell, gleefully marveling at having so many outwardly blissful appearing slaves, happily attending to his diabolical schemes of destruction.
The gates of hell are rattling but the gates of hell will not prevail.
“IN THE END MY IMMACULATE HEART WILL TRIUMPH!”
People want to look at things from all sides. Even Jesuits in there thought and schooling. The problem I see is that we don’t get to look at it from the Catholic side and with good solid reason. Even in Catholic schools we skip Catholic thought for trendy thought. It is Trendy right now to join the homosexuals and transgendered group. We are told to accept lies and violence against oneself and the community and make it normal, when inside of all of us we are hurting. What I really want is love with truth and truth with love. I find that in Jesus, his Church and The Church’s teaching.
Isn’t it a crime for a physician-surgeon to mutilate a healthy body? A surgeon isn’t supposed to remove a healthy appendix, gall bladder, etc. It seems that removing or mutilating healthy genitalia, should also be unlawful. I wonder if people who become transgendered are happy with their “new” bodies. If not, can they have the surgery reversed and return to the their original gender? There is also the risk to one’s health to take heavy doses of hormones for years.
John Hopkins Hospital, a non Catholic hospital, that used to do sex change operations, stopped doing them because they said it does not change a thing — just mutilates the person, . You can look it up on line. If a person does have a genital deformity at birth that is a different matter,
Absolutely correct, Anne T. Johns Hopkins was the pioneer in this, a procedure based on the now thoroughly discredited “research” of a Johns Hopkins psychologist, Dr. John Money.
How about the Catholic media? When has anyone seen and/or heard a Catholic newspaper or magazine or EWTN, for that matter, ask a bishop some “hard” questions. For instance, Canon 915, insuring that all schools within his diocese teach Catholicism (this would include stopping Lavender graduations, having teachers promote homosexuality, SSM, etc). I can’t say that I’ve heard of a single one and it’s the bishop’s responsibility.
God created male and female. That is God’s choice; our choice is to accept or choose evil.
Beware – Oh ever credulous Lurkers on these boards – of taking apparent ‘Legal Advice’ (Particularly about the 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion and its relation to Freedom of Speech) – from Radical Homosex Trolls too craven to even identify themselves…
– Let alone provide a Name or California Bar # to Professionally back up what Appear to be ‘legal opinions’ – that Priests Must Shut Up – whenever their speaking Truth to Power interferes with promoting the Evil of the Abomination.
The best advice about such Homosex Harpy Trolls is Not Legal – but Common Sense:
Just Scroll Past the Troll…
– Because Their Only Purpose Here is to Disrupt & Destroy a Church they deeply despise.
Nuff Said
I hope the Cardinal Newman Society is aware of this!
Let’s face it. Things like this are a black eye to the professional medical community. Any physician thinking they can cut off this or add that and “perform” a “sex change” or a “gender reassignment” have lost not only their medical bona fides but with it their grip on reality. It isn’t medicine. And it isn’t a “sex change.” Send in two shrinks for each one of these surgery cases: one for the patient and one for the surgeon.
Your False Catholic, according to your way of ‘thinking’, St. Peter was a fool when he told the Sanhedrin that it is better to obey God than to obey man!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
My January Edition of Oakland’s “Catholic Voice’ (at least 4 Some Catholics) listed the “Provocative Speakers” series scheduled at Saint Mary’s.
This Includes Sparky – the Self Mutilating Hormone Abusing Male Misandrist Drag Queen on 1/28/15…
This is the same Sparky who after His Fellow ‘in-human-rights-commissioner’ Larry Brinkin was arrested as part of a Racist Pederast Toddler Rape Ring (possibly run out of the same ‘in-human-rights-commission’ in Sodom by the Sea) –
He announced that: “I support Larry 100 percent…”
I called Saint Mary’s and was told that Sparky will be PAID (apparently via the Womyn’s Center & Vice Provost for Academic Affairs – presumably with Student / Catholic funds) for His presentation – but Attendance will be Free.
The Rank Raw MISANDRY (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) that pervades the Twysted Sisterhood at ‘small c – catholic colleges’ differs little from the rest of Academentia, and appears just as Rabidly Anti-Catholic.
I visited their website: and found nothing about Anyone Presenting Counter Viewpoints to Sparky or the other Twysted Systers of Misandry – Particularly the Catholic Teachings on God Creating Only Two Genders…
There is an extensive Radical Gender Feminist Network / ‘womynz’ Center:
https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/womens-resource-center
-But No Men’s Center / Men’s Studies – as we all know that Equal Treatment for the Male Minority would Be Politically Un-Good.
I will write Bishop Barber about such a Dis-Grace and encourage others to do so.
Talk about a Timely Subject – particularly in ‘small c catholic’ Academentia (like Saint Mary’s Holy Names, Santa Clara… and the list goes on and on).
Your correspondent may have Troll Detractors, but MISANDRY (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) has many defenders – although SSADLY too many are afraid of a visit from the 8\900 Lb Mozilla Gaystapo Gorilla to their workplace to speak the Truth To Power – as Cardinal Burke has done:
“Cardinal Burke: Catholic Church has ‘become too influenced by radical feminism’
(Lifesite)
In a wide-ranging interview Cardinal Raymond Burke used frank language to express his grave concerns about the way in which the Catholic Church has been damaged by radical feminism.
He also addressed, with a candor rarely heard from pastors, sexual immorality and liturgical abuse.
“The radical feminism which has assaulted the Church and society since the 1960s has left men very marginalized,” the cardinal told Matthew James Christoff, founder of ‘The New Emangelization’, an evangelizing mission focused on men.
“Unfortunately, the radical feminist movement strongly influenced the Church, leading the Church to constantly address women’s issues at the expense of addressing critical issues important to men;
– the importance of the father, whether in the union of marriage or not; the importance of a father to children; the importance of fatherhood for priests; the critical impact of a manly character;
the emphasis on the particular gifts that God gives to men for the good of the whole society,” said Cardinal Burke.
These “transgender” people, as well as similar “LGBT” cases, should all be properly under the medical diagnosis of “disorder,” or “illness,” or “handicapped due to a birth abnormality,” etc. Their state is NOT NORMAL!! They are enduring a terribly ABNORMAL illness or medical condition! Look at the sad disfigurements, for example, of Siamese twins, people born without legs or arms, or babies born with a cleft palate, or hydroencephaly, etc. Tragic! Maybe our government should set up good programs, to help people with medical abnormalities, offering them special, lifelong benefits, to help ease their suffering! Maybe that would be the best thing! At the same time, they should be advised by medical personnel, to lead a good, chaste life, and have a general “Rx” of healthy, daily practices, to follow. And the public should see these conditions as ABNORMAL, under the “ILLNESS” category, NOT as a “part of Nature’s normalcy!” And everyone must show COMPASSION and KINDNESS, to our sick or disfigured brethren!!