Following the removal of the Father Junipero Serra statue over the summer, LMU recently announced its plans to reinstall the figure in a location on campus that has not yet been determined. The University explained their decision to reinstall the controversial statue in the Oct. 19 edition of LMU This Week, which states that the removal of the statue was a part of a relocation plan they conceived “in response to community conversations and recommendations.”
Over the summer, Agency LMU reported on the statue’s removal after an Instagram photo showing an empty grass space where the statue once stood surfaced. The article says it is unknown when the statue was first removed.
According to LMU This Week, “The Father Serra statue is currently being evaluated for weather-related wear-and-tear repairs and will be reinstalled in a yet-to-be-determined location.”
In a statement to the Loyolan, Senior Director of Public and Media Relations Erin Bossen said, “We are considering options to place the statue in an educational context, like an exhibit, where we can more effectively present Father Serra’s competing meanings and impacts on California’s history, Catholicity, and the indigenous peoples and Latina/o and Latinx Catholics in the region.”
Full story at laloyolan.com.
How pathetic that a statue of Hank Gathers is more prominently displayed on campus than a statue of Fr. Serra. And that LMU is embarrassed to have a statue of Serra, requiring it to be placed “in context” but the Gathers statue is just there in full glory.
Maybe the “yet to be determined location” is next to the Tabernacle in the LMU chapel.
That way, neither will be seen.
Does anyone know where the Tabernacle was put?
When I was there it was on a side altar in the east (right) transept.
LMU is not a Catholic University. They should remove St. Ignatius of Loyola’s name from this wicked school. He must be so ashamed of the evil they promote there.
I’m not sure the exact quote, but…
“If you remove God from your schools and your Sanctuary, Demons will take their places.” I oberve this over and over again. If God is ejected, there is nihilism, murder, and demonic influence.
So then explain the pope.
The question that has to be asked is when will LMU reinstall Catholicism?
I don’t think reinstalling Catholicism is on their agenda. Nor is reinstalling reason or common sense.
From the Cardinal Newman Society:
“As the 116th Congress began in January (2019), the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) trumpeted the surprising fact that more than 10 percent of the U.S. Congress—55 of 535 members in the House and Senate—graduated from American Jesuit institutions.
But in their widely reported press release, the Jesuit educators also displayed a callous disregard for the moral formation of these graduates, most of whom actively work against the Church on today’s most important human rights issue: the right to life.”
It seems the only pro-life Jesuit alumni in Congress are Greg Pence (R-Indiana, brother of the vice-president) and Bryan Steil (R-Wisconsin).