The following comes from an April 22 release from the Cardinal Newman Society
The University of San Diego’s decision to allow the Pride student group to host the Supreme Drag Superstar drag show on campus last year sharply divided students, donors and alumni.
The University is again allowing the event to take place. This year, Supreme Drag Superstar 2 takes place Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m. in the campus’ largest auditorium, Shiley Theater. Again, the event has divided students and alumni. A group of students opposing it have issued a formal statement asking the university to cancel the drag show.
“The drag show undermines the dignity of the human person by advancing an ideology that is contrary to the natural law, and ultimately perpetuates the deep wounds of gender confusion rather than bringing true healing,” said a statement from Concerned Catholic USD Students.
Anticipating the negative response, the University released a statement ahead of the event. They are casting the show as “educational.”
Says the statement, from Carmen Vazquez, vice president of student affairs:
Similar to last year’s event, this show will be a combination of informative dialogue, campus resource offerings at information tables, and playful lip-synch performances designed both to raise awareness and understanding of the complex issues surrounding gender identity and expression, and to underscore the importance of mutual respect and the dignity of each individual.
The show as scheduled violates neither the university’s mission nor any university policies. The Celebration of Gender Expression supports the Church’s teaching on the dignity of the human person and does not promote either behavior or lifestyle that is contrary to the teachings of the Church.
USD supports its students in their journey and defends their right to plan and carry out events that conform to the rules uniformly applied to all approved student activities at the university.
In response to the outcry before last year’s drag show, University President Mary Lyons sent a letter to the University’s Trustees. She cited both California state law, and the fact that other Catholic universities have hosted drag shows, as reasons for the show.
The event is “intended to‘ foster students’ understanding of, and empathy for, the complexities of gender non-conformity,” wrote Lyons.
Holy hour planned
The following came in an April 22 email sent to San Diego Catholics.
Are you available to gather in prayer at USD in front of the Shiley Theatre prior to the Drag Show this Thurs April 25 at 6-7pm?
Please let me know. Please spread the word to your Catholic contacts. Thank you.
Let us pray for Gods protection surrounding these students.
A subsequent email:
IF security does not allow the prayer gathering in front of the Immaculata – then we will gather at the entrances to USD.
To read the entire Cardinal Newman release, click here.
Sin weakens our will, a clouding of our intellect, and concupiscence—the tendency to indulge our desires rather than to subordinate them to the right operation of our reason.
This is a full blown version of this effect. The Fear of God is non existent
That is true bwangi there is no fearing the Lord here with those in charge…they have placed themselves above God…..
Fight the good fight! Keep the Faith! Praying for all of you!
GOD BLESS YOU!
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The statement from Carmen Vazques is propaganda in the style of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s infamous Minister of Propaganda. Goebbels stated that the purposes of propaganda were twofold–(1)to inform and (2)TO INSTRUCT. All of this pseudo- intellectual garbage is meant to instruct the naive listener and “correct” his or her beliefs and convictions to those of the propagandist. All this supposedly done in the name of enlightenment. That the propaganda works is manifest!. Yesterdays morality has become morphed into an enlightened moral code which has made increasingly large sements of our population accept gay marriage, sodomy,baby killing and coming soon bestiality and incest. And the church hierarchy has given little opposition, which amounts to tacit approval. ((“Not to oppose evil is to approve it “-Pope St.Felix lll.)
Ave Maria Purissima sin pecado consebido!
Now that I read this whole article…I will see if I can make it to the prayer…Folks this garbage has got to stop and our Bishops need to lead now…I just wish we could do more…it’s just about getting me sick…
Our Diocese Bishops will not change unless each of us encourage them by sending them emails. (Otherwise they are too set in their current ways.)
We each have a responsibility.
We must also be aware that many Diocese Bishops surround themselves with paid Staff who do not adhere to the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition” in entirety. These employees need to be outed and fired.
Some of these Diocese employees include nuns from LCWR and NETWORK.
They also need to be fired.
Yes I agree MARYBETH
The bishops are meant by God to act in union with Him, not according to emails or what the OT calls the “flesh pots” of society.
Where is the priest of Immaculate in all of this?
Where is San Diego Diocese Bishop Robert H. Brom ?
He is responsible for everything ‘Catholic’ within his Diocese.
Sounds like another CA Bishop who disobeys the Magisterium.
On the Vatican web site see: “APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION of the SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II on CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES”.
Pray for Bishop Brom…Lukewarmness has infected many…
Pope Francis is aware of the hypocrisy, which is evident in his public announcement that bishops need to practice what they preach … The Church has doctrines that cover all this junk, and have been in print for twothousand years. Nobody needs bishops who talk right and act wrong, which is what the new Pope is addressing. Jesus told people to do what the religion meisters said but not what they did … that was prior to the descent of the Holy Spirit; thus, the Catholic bishops simply have no excuse, as many, a great portion of them, living in direct confrontation and defiance of the Holy Spirit. I suspect that Jesus has already spit these worthless characters out of his mouth. They certainly do not reflect anything that is Christian, nothing at all.
Your attacks on our bishops are unwarrented. I do not believe you even know a single bishop. You are attacking the Catholic Church. It is just as bad or worse than the drag show.
gt I know personally a few Bishops….I have been blessed to have been blessed by some of them but I do feel concerned for just a couple that I know and skai is not attacking….he is not far from the truth…but of course…we still have good faithful Bishops and I know that some are as imperfect as we are. But we do look up to them to uphold the faith and some have not shown a great effort at that. and I am putting it kindly.
But for you to deny this fact that we are facing today, shows ignorance in your part and perhaps that is why drag shows and more great wickedness will take over the church…it’s something we should expect when we ignore the warning signs that are before us. It is our punishment for neglecting our moral obligation to the truth and our faith in Christ. It’s not something that we should take lightly.
The word you just used “unwarranted” gave me chills …that people could be so ignorant or perhaps there is an agenda that many are bowing too as well that is perhaps you felt the need to attack Skai’s concerns. I don’t know…or simply you just don’t know……we can’t fault you for not knowing . But your comments show the opposite…
Please read on Catholic Lane website:Satan’s attacks on the Church What you can do.
Do not forget the Bishop is the Bishop. You do not know what he knows. Perhaps you should pick up your Rosary and Pray for Bishop Brom & Bishop Flores? When did you last do that?
bwangi I live in San Diego and every mass offers prayers for our Bishop (Bishop Brom) and rosaries too…..I know that many lukewarm Catholics do not pray the rosary, they carry their rosary’s in their cars and around their necks but do not pray, it is also a style thing but not prayed but you can bet that the traditional faith are praying the rosary and yes many a times, they pray for our church leadership especially their bishops who neglect their moral duties.
We need to pray for each other, the faithful….all these scandals are doing so much harm to us. Believe me, there are times that we felt let down and because of that….there are some that are now giving up fighting the good fight….it’s getting that bad.
These universities should not discriminate against hard core methamphetamine addicts either, and should sponsor events for them and encourage such addicts and also psychotic young people to enroll. In fact they should ply their miraculous charity to the entire career criminal population, plus providing full scholarships for red light workers and their employers. Otherwise the public might think that Univ of SD is not fulfilling its diversity mission. Oh, and let’s not forget stupid people, those who cannot no matter how much effort has been put into them learn how to read or write. USD should invite them all and pay it all.
Indeed, Skai…they can pay for all this diversity indoctrination with their strip shows. That’s class for you…really raising the bar to freedom of expression aren’t they? My, but the rest of the sophisticates like Harvard with their really tasteful ‘Sex Week’ and Notre Dame with its V__Monologues must be in sex envy that U of SD has plumbed ever lower depths. Must be all those phuds using their noodles to show the rest of the pagan world just how far their learning has taken them. Hope y’all are impressed with the edjucashun in San Diego. Yee Haaw!
They’re preparing young Catholics to excel in the marketplace, well the growing sex marketplace, and particularly the deranged sex marketplace … or is it more accurate to say that USD is prepping kids to sell out in the marketplace?
The porn industry the largest profit in the world. I heard on EWTN radio that it is larger than the top ten companies combined (like Microsoft, Amazon, etc) I suppose these schools are merely trying to get an edge on the market for their students. Things have gotten so bad that I guess we should be thankful they’re not teaching them how to be assassins and terrorists. I suppose that would change should there be a greater profit margin for these activities?
USD already does invite stupid people… USD professors (so they can get tenure and forget teaching) and administrators (so they can make those hard judgment calls against the Magisterium).
Catholic, what’s that? Is it time for the Lavender graduations yet that, it seems, most catholic (lower case deliberately) colleges have? Bishops? There are bishops, where?
Ever think that maybe we are accepting of people, ALL people, just like the Catholic Church tells us to do. Expression is not the same as criminal activity, and to relate the two is really quite ignorant on your part. The Church preaches inclusion, yet Catholics seem to forget this daily as they push out everyone that differs in the slightest. You may say we are not being a true “Catholic University” but ask the majority of students’ on campus and we will all tell you loud and proud that we support this event, just as we support our gay and straight friends alike in all their endeavors for equality. To be gay is not a crime, nor a sin. These people do not need to be “fixed”. You can have your own closed-minded views on the issue, but really look at what your religion tells you before you go preaching hate. I believe that religion, and the Catholic religion in particular, is meant to emanate love, not hate. Before you come to my campus to tell me that I am wrong, or that my gay friends are sinners, take a step back and realize they are rational human beings just as yourself. Drug addicts and psychotics are a completely different issue, one that requires help. My friends do not require help. They are successful, amazing men and women who will soon hold positions of power in this country, and who will evidently help us to fade people like you out. USD has sided on the “Catholic” doctrine before and faced major heat from faculty and staff alike. We are Catholic. We are inclusive. We support this cause. Try and stop us- all it does it give us further publicity and help our cause reach out. Thanks.
A window into the mind of a supposedly Catholic Student.
John 8: 10-12
10 Then Jesus looked up, and asked her, Woman, where are thy accusers? Has no one condemned thee? 11 No one, Lord, she said. And Jesus said to her, I will not condemn thee either. Go, and do not sin again henceforward.
When you enter the Church, You are to leave sin behind. This Drag show is not an act of conversion.
CCC: Which you need to learn says
“Sin weakens our will, a clouding of our intellect, and concupiscence—the tendency to indulge our desires rather than to subordinate them to the right operation of our reason. ”
Study your CCC seriously, Go to Father Matt Spahr over at the Immaculata and ask him for advice on these matters.
Love the Sinner rescue them from their sinful life..
What is USD’s sin?
What is USD’s sin?
The denial of The Truth of Love from The Beginning, for God Has Revealed that from the moment of our creation, at our conception, every son and daughter of a human person has been created in The Image and Likeness of God, equal in Dignity, while being complementary as male or female to live in Loving relationship as husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters…in communion with The Communion of Perfect Love, The Blessed Trinity.
It is a self evident truth that men and women are designed in such a way that regardless of desire or consent, it is impossible to engage in same-sex sexual acts without demeaning the inherent personal and relational Dignity of the human person.
God did not order us to live our lives in relationship as objects of sexual desire or inclination, ” heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transexual, polysexual…as that would be a direct violation of God’s own Commandment regarding the sin of lust and adultery.
Any act that is not ordered to respect for the inherent personal and relational Dignity of the human person is not, and can never be, an act of Love, and is thus anti Christ.
Catholicism, founded and ruled by Jesus Christ, does not “accept all people”. Her mission is to discipline all people. You need to study the critical difference. Wolves accept all people, but shepherds do not. Any shepherd who accepts all people is a false and evil shepherd, who betrays souls and betrays God.
Ain’t it hilarious to hear young college students carrying forward the stupid old tradition that they know more than older people … especially when their instructors are older people, who train them like parrots ??
USD your comments are heretical and this clearly gives a good indication of this school’s neglect to be faithful. Your words may be perhaps an example of more that we can expect from a lukewarm University.
What comment was heretical and what is the heresy?
I’d like to get a bird’s eye view of fire falling from heaven.
ski ven it didn’t happen last time…it won’t happen this year either….those days are gone….people are so sinful now…so much sinful….we have to wait and see how far our Lord will allow these great evils to continue….
They call it Pride. How can any sane person be proud of practicing a sexual perversion? How can Bishop Brom permit this to happen in a so-called Catholic University. To condone a perversion is a sin.
A puzzle, isn’t it, Sarah? But I must say, bluefish certainly makes a stab at explaining it all. Did he provide the insights you were looking for? ;o)
Pride is the root of all evil….except when it’s pride of faith and church…then it is righteous but this gay pride stuff is truly the root of evil!
Why are gays automatically considered immoral just for being gay? How is a drag show automatically immoral? Does the Cardinal Newman Society rail equally vociferously against a fashion show? Are we respecting the dignity of a gay person if we join in a shotgun approach that is aimed at everything they do? How do you evangelize if you don’t engage the sinner? Where did USD endorse breaking the sixth or ninth commandments?
Cardinal Dolan recently to George Stephanopoulos: ” “We got to be – we got to do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gay people. And I admit, we haven’t been too good at that. We try our darndest to make sure we’re not anti-anybody.”
Bluefish must be a grad of U of SD. Such specious ‘reasoning’ is quiet breathtaking. Should we all take our Bibles and Catechisms to the next strip show and share scripture with the student body (no kidding) as they crank out their bump and grind routines? Actually, your response Bluefish leaves me quite nonplussed… speachless, actually. Wow, the inner workings of some people’s minds are utterly unfathomable. But your Cardinal Dolan was a perfect fillip and tied it all together with a neat bow. ( clap clap clap with only one hand)
Actually, I meant speechless. I was so dicombobulated I misspelled it!
They are not being considered immoral for having SSA. They are immoral for attacking marriage, teaching children to sin, dragging people into Court for having religious objections to sodomy, having filthy and disgusting parades where they commit sodomy in public streets in front of children, having their city government issue a resolution that condemns the teachings of the Catholic Church, dressing up as nuns to mock Catholics, staging lewd displays in front of Catholic churches in order to antagonize and mock Catholics, forcing firefighters to march in a “gay pride parade” where they get homosexually harrassed, producing images of Jesus and his Apostles as homosexual men with sex toys, and molesting altar boys and trying to convince us that love of sodomy has nothing to do with it. I am sick and tired of their relentless bullying. There is only so much that anyone can take. Burn the Rainbow flag, that filthy and vile symbol of bullying and oppression of Christians.
Bluefish,
You know darn well that “Gay” means sexually active militant homosexual,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Catholics must not support homosexual activities that lead some to temptation, or scandalize others that homosexual acts are permitted.
CCC: ” 2396 Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation, fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices. ”
Without repentance and a firm purpose of amendment to sin no more, those guilty of GRAVE (mortal) SIN will suffer in HELL for eternity.
MARYBETH exactly but you will have some here who pretend to be faithful to Church and yet support indirectly or directly sinful lifestyles.
Well Bluefish, it was in NYC at St. Patrick’s Cathedral no less where gays that you so defend desecrated the Blessed Sacrament about 20 years ago. Perhaps Cdl Dolan worried less about what gays think and more about the salvation of souls things would be better
Simple answer, Celebrating a sinful inclination is in and of itself a sin.
Should Promiscous priests celebrate their promisquity?
Bluefish just proves exactly what we need to be concerned about…just the beginning of his question was already displaying a lack of understanding and virtue. It sounds like the high school peer pressures I recall seeing….”come on, a little puff of this won’t harm you…what’s wrong with having a little fun.”……
“We try our darndest to make sure we’re not anti-anybody.”
Yes, you have certainly succeeded in trying your darndest and that is why I would like to thank you Cardinal Dolan for helping me get re-elected! Could you please also join me for dinner and cocktails at the upcoming Planned Parenthood fund raiser too?
Thanks again for the help!
Your close bud Barack
Catherine if only Cardinal Dolan would open his eye’s and heart to the cries of the faithful…..if only our Lord would show him the souls lost forever in hell…maybe just maybe that may return him to what his role is intended to do.
This “drag show” is only part of a larger movement to distort the meaning of marriage, and destroy God’s plan for the family according to nature. Over 6,000 people have called on USD to cancel this outrage. If you’d like to join them, go to:
https://www.tfpstudentaction.org/university-san-diego-cancel-the-sinful-drag-show.html
For the 2900 students who signed the petition against the drag show, why are you still there? If you were there last year and stayed this year, you got what you paid for. If you stay for next year, it will be bigger and more flagrant and again, you will have gotten what you paid for. You and your parents and alums are way too concerned about tradition. Only a mass exodus could have any possible impact on this administration.
The Alumni must withdraw their monetary support of this corrupt institution.
The modernists in control retain its status as “Catholic” because they intend to reinterpret the meaning of the Faith itself.
Well, Well, the Devil got his Dance in Sheep pens of Christ? Devoured some lambs with the help of sheep while at it?
The good, devout Catholic students are learning the ropes, first hand, as to how the devil operates within institutions of higher learning and also how the Modernists within the administration are exposed for what they are. This prepares them for the culture war that is ramping up each year and will escalate to something not too pretty in the not-too-distant future. They need our prayers!
The devil perseveres and is bent on people not reading or accepting St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans, Chapter 1, verses 26-3: [26] “For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. [27] And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error. [28] And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient; [29] Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, [30] Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
{Douay-Rheims Holy Bible footnote: [26] “God delivered them up: Not by being author of their sins, but by withdrawing his grace, and so permitting them, in punishment of their pride, to fall into those shameful sins”.}
[31]” Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. [32] Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them”.
Now it couldn’t be any clearer than that; however I guess some of our elite mindless college students and especially their not-so-brilliant professors and university president can’t quite comprehend the gospels. Did anyone say that USD is a catholic school? They certainly are mistaken. Whomever cannot comprehend must not be blessed with God’s sanctifying grace as St. Paul says. St. Paul obviously is a man of God, not someone to ignore as the Holy Ghost speaks to us through his readings.
So why doesn’t Mr. Brom correct and denounce this drag show? Like St. Felix said those that don’t speak up and correct error, effectively condone this disgusting immoral behavior offensive to almighty God. To bad many homosexual Vatican 2 members are cafeteria types, the trouble is to be truly Roman Catholic we can’t pick and choose what we accept of God’s Holy Will and Truths. Put yourself in a father’s shoes, would you be happy with your childs behavior if he defied you, disobeyed you, believed only what he wanted to believe and not everything you taught him? Pray the rosary to find God’s Holy Truth and breakdown your LGBT pride.
I am proud that none of my high school and college children would ever consider attending this heathen/pagan university that deceives so many that it is catholic when it truly is not. The university president and faculty supporting this drag show should be fired. They are not irreplaceable, especially with higher education leaders that have Roman Catholic faith and morals. It is time to shut this drag show down. If the university doesn’t shut the drag show down, the wrath of God toward the university may only grow in intensity when He finally punishes it and its leadership.
Just a note to add on verse [32] in St. Paul’s epistle quoted above: “[32] Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them”. I high-light the words “but they also that consent to them that do them”. In other words it is not just the homosexuals that will suffer, but those who sympathize and support the homosexuals sinful lifestyle, not taking offense to it and not admonishing it.