The following comes from an March 31 St. Mary’s College news release:
Two remarkable individuals—one, a Saint Mary’s alumnus and critically acclaimed actor; and the other, an advocate for educational excellence in the Golden State’s public school system—will address undergraduate and graduate students at the 2016 Commencement Ceremonies of Saint Mary’s College of California.
Tom Torlakson, superintendent of California’s public school system and leader of the California Department of Education, will offer the commencement address to Saint Mary’s graduate and professional studies students on May 21.
From April 26 Cardinal Newman Society article:
Saint Mary’s College of California will host superintendent of California’s public school system Tom Torlakson as a commencement speaker.
In his role as superintendent, Torlakson has been a public proponent of same-sex marriage, opposing the Proposition 8 effort to protect marriage between one man and one woman in California and applauding the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling over social media. “Same sex marriage is now a universal right, rules #SCOTUS. Congratulations to all on this historic victory! #LoveWins,” he stated on Twitter.
He has received 100 percent ratings from NARAL Pro-Choice California, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California and the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights League, as well as public endorsements from Equality California and Planned Parenthood.
Torlakson also supported legislation in California which required students to study the contributions of LGBT Americans as “role models” and mandated that “children as young as kindergarten must be taught to admire persons who engage in homosexuality.”
Here’s an idea for a commencement speaker: Father Greg Boyle. Perhaps he can inspire these rich kid college graduates to give something positive to our society – such as much needed Christian service.
Yes, let’s go from the frying pan into the fire. Boyle is a run of the mill dissent Jesuit who ridicules the Church on homosexual marriage and women ordination. He’s another social worker priest whose focus is not on the Mass, but rather on his liberation theology background that began when he was student at Jesuit Loyola High in L.A. Why can’t the poor be helped without a sideline agenda of Marxist world revolution? Oh,can’t do that, because you might have to evangelize the Catholic faith.
Ralph,
Thank you, for nipping Bob’s very bad idea in the bud.
I Just wish they would have their ‘Catholic Identity’ taken away from them!!!!
Then let them be as secular as the want, but don’t ‘pretend’ to be Catholic when you are in no way following the Catholic Church’s teachings!!
Perversely, the dissident Catholic schools don’t want to be merely secular, they want to be Catholic dissidents. The schools are incubators full of young, naïve and pliable Catholics 18-21 years old who grew up attending Mass in ambiguously Catholic parishes. Once on the small tightly-controlled campuses, the children can be molded and re-formed into socialist /feminist/ homosexualist ‘Catholics’ who are taught to harbor a sense of superiority, enlightenment and deep understanding that there is something wrong and backwards about traditional Catholicism. Administrators acutely understand that revolution in the Church can’t be fomented from within a secular college. It needs to be done from a plausibly Catholic foundation. That’s…
That’s what’s going on these schools, get your kids out.
Another reality is that the apostate Catholic schools would be highly unlikely to survive as secular institutions. They predominantly depend on Catholic families for their applicants. The parents of these households want Catholic education for their children. Unfortunately, these parents are not sufficiently attuned in their own faith to discern the apostasy of the schools. But if these schools become officially secular, the lower tuition rates at the state college system will suddenly make a lot more sense to a lot of people.
Really! A pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, anti-Catholic, party-of-death Democrat, run-of-the-mill pervert, speaking at a CINO University in California? Shocking!
Another article.
Another tear.
Another Catholic In Name Only (CINO) College scandal.
Another strong anti-Catholic political activist commencement speaker.
Another reason to skip/boycott Graduation ceremonies.
Another debate ‘what should we in the pew say or do?’
Another incentive to ‘vote’ for American moral traditions & values.
Another reminder to pray for our Country and our C. Church.
Another day to not grow weary of the good fight.
“Another day to not grow weary of the good fight.” A little too late for that……those in the Church simply do not care. You want me to fight show me results ie: mass excommunications, the defrocking of every single gay priest and bishop, etc etc
If one had a single day to devote to the effort, and could go anywhere in the State to hear a Catholic college/university commencement address, where would Cal Catholic recommend one head to? [I know it ends with a preposition, but I agree with Mr. Churchill on this one.]
On May 14, the Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop of San Francisco, will give the commencement address to Thomas Aquinas College’s graduating students.
To Mikem – I would go to Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai to hear a truly
Catholic commencement address. You would not be disappointed.
We could also ask why we do not see or hear any words of criticism from our Catholic priests or religious sisters regarding what is happening at SMC, USF, LMU, SCU, Georgetown and on and on with regard to what is happening in our once great Catholic universities. Not one word from Cardinals, Bishops, or priests. Has the cat got their tongue? Or better yet, has money got their tongue? Shame on each and everyone of them. They are as bad as the speakers chosen to speak at these Universities. Our country is going to hell in a hand basket and nothing is being done to stop the express train trip to Hell. God have mercy on us and our country. Pray the Rosary like your life depends on it….as it really does!
Amy L.,
Thank you, for that much needed post! Many have been reflecting on this very same thing. You are right. The silence IS shameful! While Tod D. Brown was bishop, I telephoned the Diocese of Orange to ask for the telephone phone number of Legatus. Amy, I have never heard such fear and trepidation in a voice. The person I spoke with asked me, “What are you going to tell them?” Amy L., When you are not doing anything wrong, then there is nothing to fear..but if you are doing things wrong, and the donations are affected, then you see that “MONEY HAS GOT THEIR TONGUE!” There is no fear, or trepidation, when it comes to offending God.
“Pray the Rosary like your life depends on it….as it really does!”
Look at the state of the world! Look at the state of the Church! The linked article below mentions that Bishop Vann approached the school principal about performing in the high school play. What would have happened if that principal would have courageously said, “Please, Please, Your Excellency, DON’T DO THIS, for it will make you look Hollywood-worldly and very odd. You will embarrass your flock!”
Bishop by day, ‘sinner’ on stage: Kevin Vann gets into character for high school musical – The Orange County Register
https://m.ocregister.com/articles/vann-713114-school-theater.html
“In the 1960s at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, near Oakland, California, five philosophy professors — Dr. McArthur, Dr. John Neumayr, Dr. Frank Ellis, Mr. Marc Berquist, and Br. Edmund Dolan, F.S.C. — observed with great concern the rapid disintegration of Catholic higher education in the United States. Their observations engendered a series of conversations, which culminated in the drafting of A Proposal for the Fulfillment of Catholic Liberal Education, the founding document of Thomas Aquinas College.”
https://www.thomasaquinas.edu/about/brief-history-thomas-aquinas-college