The following comes from a March 3 Cardinal Newman Society article by Adam Cassandra:
Saint Mary’s College of California hosted a roundtable discussion on Monday night “exploring the intersections of LGBT, Religion, Race, Gender and Ethnicity” featuring four activists for legalized same-sex marriage with an understanding of human sexuality not in alignment with Catholic Church teaching, causing a theology professor at the College to severely criticize the one-sided, anti-Catholic nature of the event.
“It seems to me, at a place that claims on some level to still be faith-based, we owe the students more than this,” Father David Gentry-Akin, professor of theology at Saint Mary’s, told The Cardinal Newman Society. Father Gentry-Akin said if the College is going to allow students to be exposed to points of view that contradict Church teaching, then event organizers “need to make sure there’s someone there who can speak credibly about the tradition of the Church on these questions.”
The panel discussion featured three speakers from the Pacific School of Religion, Dr. Justin Tanis, Dr. Bernie Schlager and Janice Sommerville, along with Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, the coordinator of Catholic and Latina programming for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
Each of the speakers has a history of publicly condoning same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage. And Rivera’s employer, the Human Rights Campaign, actively works to undermine Church teaching on marriage and human sexuality across the country.
As of this minute, there are 9, count them 9, depressing articles on calcatholic. None of these stories would have happened in the 1950’s. Why, because of Vatican II. Since the council, all hell has broken loose against the Church, and things get worse by the hour. I know it sounds pessimistic, but what I write is true. The Church is shrinking, and dying. Most Catholics know nothing about their faith, and most are lukewarm if they have not apostatized already. Very tragic and most depressing.
I agree !!! Vatican 2 was only intended to be a pastoral council and nothing more. But when certain people in the religious, who I believe were Freemasons, allowed for protestants to voice there ideas at the council that were implemented, that’s when watered down teachings began. Now we have reached a level that is possibly unstoppable. You want to be a protestant go ahead but leave Holy Mother Church out of your half truth ways and ideas.
it makes me wonder whether there is a recruitment element or motive behind this. when catholic parishes began to allow dignity to meet at parishes, it became clear that the groupd ended uallowing like-minded people to more easily meet each other and find partners. does the lgbt community posibly feel that there is not sufficient inflow of new life to sustian the ‘dream’? there have been statements in the past that there is a need to ‘help people find who they really are’, another way of saying proselytizing. liiving and believing the gay mythology requires the feeling of numbers to prove to themselves that it is ‘normal’.
Oh drewelow….. I can only share with you that, that’s not how it works. In every generation, a small number of God’s children, myself included, are attracted to our own gender rather than, as with the majority, the opposite one. Perhaps you only know of gay people through what you read and hear. Getting to know your LGBT neighbors, fellow parishoners etc. might help you understand us better,
In a word, no.
No YFC & C&H you are both wrong as you always are… your little subset of people have managed to destroy a culture and infiltrate the Church.
We don’t have to infiltrate the Church, we have always been a part of it from birth. As Saint John Paul said, we are held in the bosom of the Catholic Church.
YFC, stop being such a “silly boy”, your interpretation of bosom is much different. What I will pray is that you and others will grab a Rosary and hit your knees and not your bosom.
Cauisius..How can I infiltrate the Church. I was born into it and my ancestors may have been among the first converted by St. Patrick.
I think the legions of pant suited clipped hair lesbian nuns pretty much settles it….and ranks of gay priests..
C&H, St. Patrick was born British, enslaved by the pagan Celts, ran away and obtained his freedom, became a priest and went back to Eire to convert the Irish from their pagan darkness. Part of that conversion was to chase the snakes of sexual immorality out of Ireland. It seems they are back again.
Academentia has become a craven trough for dispensing ransom to tenured radical leftist, gender feminist / homosex Misandrists.
An ostensibly ‘catholic’ (very small c, like so many others) educational institution that uses the Church as a Forum to Trash the Church; using Church Money to Pay Anti-Catholic Bigots to savagely soil the place with a frothy mix of ‘happy tolerance’ – Pretty much sums up the current state of affairs in this AbomiNation.
All POTUS Barry ‘on the down low’ Soetoro need do now is force Nuns to Pay for Abortions – and his tolerance pogrom will have ruthlessly exterminated the Un-good.
I’m sure Father David Gentry-Akin will be reprimanded for his intolerant and lukewarm position that a Catholic College should defend Catholicism.
What the Catholic Church– and all the secular world!– desperately needs, is correct guidance in our sacred Judeo-Christian Biblical morality! Without firm guidance and solid formation from an early age– the Church and secular society, will continue to simply crumble into dust! You cannot have crazy, immoral, immature political activists constantly turning civilization upside down, with the intent to destroy it, and replace it, with their own crackpot, Godless, pagan, immoral agendas! Liberal, crackpot, permissive ideas need to be firmly replaced, at all levels of society, and in the Church, with a FIRM, NO-NONSENSE traditional approach! A big responsibility, to guard civilization!
The motive is self destruction. The Church swallowed the poisonous and sinful pill of modernism, which is basically all the heresies combined, and is therefore committing suicide. Except for Los Angeles, see all the parishes that are closing. Cities that had four churches 10 years ago, now have one. Ignorance is ruling the day, and apostasy is rampant. No one cares about being Catholic anymore; She has ceased preaching Christ crucified. Ave Maria Purrissima !
It’s Called Plan ‘A’ from Hollyweird via the AbomiNation:
” U.S. bishop warns push for gay ‘equality’ will ‘destroy everything Christian’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/video-u.s.-bishop-warns-push-for-gay-equality-will-destroy-everything-chris
– “preposterous” that folks are buying the argument that the relationship of two men or two women who put organs into the wrong orifice should be made into a matter of “human rights or racial justice” and be equated with a sexual relationship between a man and woman that produces children.
“But how can [this] link in the minds of manipulatable human beings? Well, that’s the case. And, if you dare to speak out, you are a bigot,” he said.
He said that the persecution against…
St. Mary’s has been LIBERAL for a long time now!
SO VERY SAD!!
Elizabeth:
There is little or nothing ‘Liberal’ about St. Mary’s ‘college’, or others of its low caliber ilk like Santa Clara, Loyola… Although they Hide behind the term in a most cowardly dishonest manner – as befits True Anti-Catholic Revolutionaries churning grist for their Diploma Hate Mills.
The ‘Politics of Adversarial Terminology’ define ‘liberal’ – to disguise its Hate Based Radical Leftist / Gender Feminist / Homosex MISANDRY (they really do want to literally exterminate the hated ‘Hetero-Patriarchy’, meaning non-homoanal males & their ‘female dupes’).
The media propaganda scam of juxtaposing ‘light hearted and gaily happy joy boys’ Vs. Unbending Straight Linear ‘Un-Good-Nicks’ is media manipulation &…
C&H, i took my ‘experience’ from a high-ranking american monsignor , to the end very liberal, who tried so hard to be inclusive and then saw dignity turn into a dating venue. it seemed be happening nationwide. he was not anti=gay, just obsevant of where things were going. all groups contain a spectrum within themselves, and just possibly it was how it worked for a percentage within the spectrum.
Thank you and God bless you Fr. David Gentry Akin for speaking out for the truth. I suggest everyone who comes on here read on line “The Catholic World Report Essay on Gay Marriage”.It is most accurate. The first Christians faced the same things we are facing today under the Emperor Nero and many other pagan Roman emperors who had slid into total decadence. Nothing new, folks, nothing new at all. As the book of Proverbs says, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
I hope the priest has tenure, because the college will be looking for a way to run him out of town!
God bless him!
I see the Church being reduced to a hard core of Faithful ones, holding fast to Tradition and steadfastly resisting the rot that has infected the Body of Christ since Vatican II. What will happen to the Papacy I can only imagine, but somehow the Church will be faithfully led, if only from the catacombs. If that is the case, then so be it, we are better off existing as a remnant rather than succumbing to the rot that is infiltrating our once-holy Church. Thank God for the SSPX and the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, they will keep the Church alive through these dark times.
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter was formed in 1988 after SSPX priests and seminarians who did not want to go into schism sought out an agreement with the Holy See when SSPX and Bishop LeFebvre lost their way.
You pretend as though the Catholic Church is shrinking. It is not. Please see the facts.
Fact YFC another round of parish closings is on its way….
It should come as no surprise then that the better part of St. Mary’s faculty left in the late 1960s and set about founding Thomas Aquinas College.