The following came May 10 via email from Charles S. LiMandri, USD Class of 1977.
On Thursday, April 25, 2013, the University of San Diego, my alma mater, held its second annual Drag Show, tripling the attendance of last year’s similarly scandalous event. Despite protests by concerned Catholics — and even an on-line petition sponsored by TFP-Student Action (www.tfpstudentaction.org) to cancel the event which garnered over 8,000 signatures in just a few days — the wayward USD Administration condoned and promoted the event.
Openly lesbian theology professor Evelyn Kirkley was the architect of the drag show last year. She told the attending students that they were now “revolutionaries” in support of the gay agenda. Openly lesbian, philosophy professor Lori Watson was again prominently involved this year. She ensured that the students on hand got a good dose of anti-Catholic indoctrination. Once again, the theme of the drag show was that your gender is what you perceive it to be, rather than the one that God bestowed on you. In fact, according to Dr. Watson’s twisted logic, we are all in drag.
Nowhere present was the Catholic teaching that we are made in the image and likeness of God, either male or female, and that we are called to embrace the sexuality determined by our chromosomes at conception. What were present were role models in the form of professional transvestites, who promote the gay lifestyle and same-sex marriage. There were male students convincingly made up to look like females and vice versa. This included a boyish looking girl who proclaimed that she was bi-sexual – to the applause of USD students who were deceived into believing this is consistent with Catholic values.
And why should they not think so? The USD faculty were present at the event as judges, and the administration was careful to send out letters, both before and after the drag show, falsely claiming that it did not contradict Catholic teaching. The official teaching of the Catholic Church regarding sexual identity and homosexual behavior demonstrates the falsity of the statements made by the USD administration which, tragically, is all too content to lead its students into apostasy. The latest heretical documents issued by the Administration can be viewed on the website www.AlumniForACatholicUSD.org in the section for the 2013 Drag Show. That website also includes a section providing the authentic Catholic teaching on the subject of gender and human sexuality, including statements from the Catholic catechism and the Holy Father.
The May 2 issue of the USD student newspaper, the Vista, demonstrates the extent to which student organizations on campus are now obsessed with promoting LGBTQ issues. That edition of the newspaper devotes about one-third of its twenty pages of print space to this radical agenda. And, once again, the authentic Catholic viewpoint is nowhere mentioned, except to be contradicted and ridiculed. The Vista reports that the USD Administration even invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the drag show, one of which was widely featured on the television news. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a militant group that openly mocks Catholic teaching in blasphemous and profane ways, to the point that it has been officially rebuked by the Vatican. This did not deter USD from giving these perverse Sisters a platform from which to further attack the Church and corrupt USD students.
Some faithful Catholics who wanted to assemble in prayer to protest the event on campus were turned away at the gate. Similarly, last year USD alumni were denied the right to say the rosary in the unoccupied Founders Chapel because “there was too much going on” the night of the first drag show. Fortunately, the Church provides remedies for devout Catholics to appropriately address these grave concerns. The faithful are encouraged to look for updates at www.AlumniForACatholicUSD.org and to follow the progress being made to save USD from itself.
Alumni For A Catholic USD is a project of the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund. The fund is a religious nonprofit organization that was launched in September 2012. Its mission is to protect and promote our nation’s Judeo-Christian values through educational programs and the defense of religious liberty in the courts. To learn more about our group and how you can help it reclaim our culture, visit the website at www.ConscienceDefense.org.
After prayer and fasting, the best way Catholics can best straighten out USD is to hit them in the one place that does matter to them … their pocketbook.
Absolutely correct! I am more discouraged than last year about my alma mater! It just gets worse when I think it has already hit bottom. My classmates from the late 60’s would never recognize this school and all faithful Catholic alumni need to boycott financially. That’s what we do in dioceses – “No dogma, no dollar”.
I agree. Let all God-fearing students and teachers and donors leave or never go there. Let them lose their Catholic identity. Leave them to themselves.
But the USD pocketbook probably is not stuffed by the faithful, but by those given over to the world, the flesh and the devil.
USD has become a living toilet.
USD has no “Catholic” identity anymore, so lets just ignore this crap once and for all. They can mock the Lord all they want their reward is written!! Let us pray for the return of the Traditional Latin Mass and the sacraments that go with it, only then as I have stated many times before will Holy Mother Church right herself with Our Lady’s help.
Janek, we cannot ignore this mushrooming fungus, otherwise it’ll smother us. It has to be stopped.
Shut down this school……start over with new people….
Vaporize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shades of Slim PIckens ridin’ the H-Bomb into eternity (final scene of Dr. Strangelove).
Must there always be a painted and pathetic looking man looking like a tatooted rhutabaga accompanying all these sorts of articles? Frankly, I’d rather see photos of city dumps than have to look at one more such as this. Ugh. And it’s hardly news that so many of the students at USD find it rather ‘daring’ and ‘avant garde’ for same-sex relationships and has-been, tasteless drag shows as there are fewer people who fall on the low end of the bell curve and who actually know less of what is going on than college students. For those so unfortunate as to have spent great sums of money to attend school there, they would have been better off hitting the streets and picking up all the sordid things of life for a lot less money. Rob is absolutely right. Donors and alumni should cut off their funds immediately. Parents should pull their children from this school and the Bishop should insist they not be allowed to call themselves Catholic. Maybe it can become a state school or a training college for belly dancers or both?
It just came to me…’A School for Scandal”. USD can become the first of its kind…a school primarily aimed at creating atheists, mocking faithful Catholics, teaching eager students all 10,001 poses in the KamaSutra and unleashing all the secrets of the dark arts. They would be free to invite every freak speaker from Britain with no hassels and the school could follow the natural course it is on unfettered with unpleasant repercussions from unruly students intent on actually learning something. In fact, the way they’re going , they could end up just like Antioch College in YellowSprings Ohio.
….before it was transformed into Antioch University, thanks to its alumni. (It was driven to financial ruin from weak administration/anarchic students.
Oh, give me a break: “There isn’t anything in the show that violates the teachings of the Catholic Church. That is to say, the church and the church teachings are silent on cross-dressing,” said Tim O’Malley, vice president of university relations.
Well, I’m fairly sure the Catechism doesn’t say anything against eating dog poop, either, but that doesn’t mean we should allow it at a CATHOLIC university!
What is wrong with these people?
Do they WANT their school to lose all alumni funding?!?
Yes, take the funding away from this institution until they clean up their act and start running it like a catholic university. What a disgrace!! The Bible clearly tells all Christians to be against the act of homosexuality and to behave as God instructed us to.
Wake up USD and change your Administration, they should be gone! The DEVIL is running your thinking.
You mean they haven’t already lost all CATHOLIC ALUMNI funding? Why not?
If I were the Bishop, In the hope of God’s mercy, I would wrap my self in sack cloth and ashes and process around that evil campus until I dropped. HE is responsible for this!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Various large metropolises are being run by sodomites, and the Catholic universities there are either responsible for putting sodomites in power, or else the sodomites who gain power are transforming the Catholic universities.
That’s it in a nutshell…
I’m sure MarkfromPA thinks this is beautiful! They are just expressing themselves as to who they are. They were born that way. They don’t choose who they are!
Why are these anti-catholic professors employed by this university? It is an abomination!
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.
One more note regarding 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 heterosexuals who sympathize and support the homosexuals sinful lifestyle, not taking offense to it and not admonishing it.
IT’S CALLED MODERNISM!
This is what officially needs to be done – – –
1) Write to Diocese Bishop, with copies to US Papal Nuncio in Washington DC, and also the Vatican.
2) In the letters (or emails) along with your statement include:
*** a. – Copy of this article (or link if using email);
*** b. – Quote official Church documents (that can be found on the Vatican web site) –
” APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION of the SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II on CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES” –
” Article 5 § 2. Each Bishop has a responsibility to promote the welfare of the Catholic Universities in his diocese and has the right and duty to watch over the preservation and strengthening of their Catholic character. If problems should arise concerning this Catholic character, the local Bishop is to take the initiatives necessary to resolve the matter, working with the competent university authorities in accordance with established procedures(52) and, if necessary, with the help of the Holy See.”
and
“LETTER to the BISHOPS of the CATHOLIC CHURCH on the PASTORAL CARE of HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS” –
” 15. We encourage the Bishops, then, to provide pastoral care in full accord with the teaching of the Church for homosexual persons of their dioceses. No authentic pastoral programme will include organizations in which homosexual persons associate with each other without clearly stating that homosexual activity is immoral. A truly pastoral approach will appreciate the need for homosexual persons to avoid the near occasions of sin.”
and
“SACRAE DISCIPLINAE LEGES” (1983) – Apostolic Constitution by the Supreme Pontiff Pope John Paul II – “Finally, the canonical laws by their very nature MUST be observed.”
Canons 915, 1399; and 1369, 216; and 1376.
and
CCC: 2357 & 2396; 2284, 2285, 2286 & 2287; 2120.
and
Holy Scripture: Gen 19:1-29; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:9-10; 1 Tim 1:10.
You will be effectively building a Church legal case that proves that a certain Bishop needs to do his job in accord with Church teaching.
We must pray, encourage and push each Bishop to do his own job. (The LCWR, NETWORK and many other organized groups push the Bishops against Church teaching.)
Everything ‘Catholic’ within his own Diocese must be his first priority.
In the case of the Diocese of San Diego, the Bishop is: Bishop Robert H. Brom
(and Bishop Cirilo B. Flores Coadjutor Bishop of San Diego – he needs a copy as well).
Copy and Paste this info for your continued use as needed.
On the USCCB web site search: “Bishops, Catholic Colleges Continue Ex Corde Ecclesiae Dialogue On Relations With Church, Society” (2013).
This is what Bishop McFadden sent to the Vatican based upon REPORTS from other US Bishops –
“Bishops reported that they believe our institutions of Catholic higher education have made definite progress in advancing Catholic identity,” the report said. ” The relationship between bishops and presidents on the local level can be characterized as positive and engaged, demonstrating progress on courtesy and cooperation in the last ten years. Clarity about Catholic identity among college and university leadership has fostered substantive dialogues and cultivated greater mission driven practices across the university.”
Clearly some Bishops from CA were dishonest and/or did not report factually as required.
When dishonest reports go to the Vatican, we all have an obligation to set the record straight.
The Vatican can not help when they are given false info.
MIKE, why do you presume that the “Vatican” has to rely on honest reports? Have you ever considered that holy men and holy women receive truth from God? Have you ever considered that there is no need for a Vatican bureaucracy if the bishops are holy? Read St Paul and find out what he has to say about this point. People need to wean themselves off of worshiping the Vatican as if it were a congregation of super heros.
Update: Been reading how Pope Francis uses the word “careerism” to refer to Vatican bureaucrats who are lost in the world, the flesh and the devil. This Pope seems to be attempting to take them back from the devil. If he succeeds, he will then be canonized. I wonder if he’d be canonized if he dismissed the Vatican bureaucracy, and forbid it ever being formed again, and an anathema upon the head of anyone who tried.
Skai-
Bishops are human; Bishops are tempted; some Bishops give in to certain sins.
As all of us do at various times in our lives. Bishops are not immune from laziness (sloth), or pride, or envy, etc.
If Bishops were perfect they would not need St. Paul to tell them anything.
If you have a Saintly Bishop, thank God. If you do not have a Saintly Bishop write to him and quote St. Paul, let him know you are praying for his Soul, and ask him to adhere to the Bible, CCC, and Code of Canon Law all in entirety.
“Bishops are human”: this is the classic apologetics for evil bishops. Using this excuse denies the Holy Eucharist. The purpose of the Holy Eucharist is to unite man with God. Also, Holy Orders is a sacrament. Bishops who are not in union with God because of defiling the Sacraments they’ve received fall into the category of “bishops are human”. The Church needs to get rid of these demoniacs. On the other side of the Cross there hang bishops who are both human and divine, since they are in union with God through the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist. In that Jesus is true man and true God and being that souls in a state of grace who receive Jesus in the Eucharist, then these souls are in union with true man and true God … ie both human and divine … it is a union, ie a being one with God. A bishop who does not live up to this union has zero excuse and is condemned by God, and is the worst of the hypocrites. Pope Francis wants the bishops to practice what they preach so as to rid the Church of hypocrisy … The only way a bishop can do this is to “become holy”, which is what Pope Emeritus called them to do.
Mary, your attempt at theology is extremely faulty; you need to put more effort into your studies, and use better resources. Try the Bible and the Doctors and not the syrupy flack that innundates the bookstands.
Jesus tells us, Mary, to “be perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect.” Your interpretation of St Paul is simply unthought out. Your theology is nothing more than go along to get along, the lukewarm that Christ says He spits out because it is useless. They say the Holy Spirit provides spiritual fire for those who desire it … you might give that a try.
Mary, a bishop who has to be forced to adhere to canon law is a bishop with the bare minimum of faith … who wants to spend time in the shadow of such a flavorless grain of salt?
Skai,
We (all Catholics including you) must do everything we can to help force Bishops to teach the Faith in full and accurately.
Letting errors and bad examples stand, means losing Souls through Scandal.
Letting errors stand and confuse ill catechized Catholics and non-Catholics is demonic.
Wrong Ted. Forcing a bishop to teach truly is vain and empty. The Popes gave the answer, holiness. Forget the unholy bishops, and flock to the holy bishops. Forget the idea that you have to be a member of a local parish … nothing but monetary nonsense. Find the closest holy bishop and the closest holy parish and go there.
Ted,
Many have formed petitions, written personally, organized prayer vigils, and even travelled to Rome, are they letting errors stand and confuse ill catechized Catholics because the “Officials” refuse to listen?
Wake up faithful Catholics, the problem is in the chanceries, seminaries and yes Vatican!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Skai, form a purely human point of view – ALL Bishops are NOT holy.
Those Bishops who are prideful and ambitious (wanting higher appointments) – will not want those at the Vatican who do the appointing to know that they do not accurately teach and preach the Faith in full. They will not want those in power to know they are lazy, deny parts of the Faith, or do not believe in everything required of them.
Report them to make them shape up for the sake of the Souls in their Diocese.
If they won’t do it to get to Heaven, perhaps they will teach accurately and appropriately for earthly rewards. Either way it will save Souls.
If he had been reported many years ago perhaps Mahony, Bernardin and some others would not have been made Cardinals either.
MIKE, these bishops have been getting reported for decades. The Pope and the Pope Emeritus have both given the answer, which is that the bishops need to get holy and practice what they preach. These popes said this because they know the problems. If they are not responding to God, then no amount of letters is going to get them to kick their heels in the air and hop to. There is a culling taking place, a culling of historical and monumental proportions. The faithful are shouting the good news from the housetops. Jesus is the light that shines into the darkness … that is what the faithful are doing. The whole mess is not one of robotic or puppet context, but of faith. Faith grows from a mustard seed to a great habitat, especially when those coming to habitate there kick out the weeds.
Re.: “If he had been reported many years ago perhaps Mahony, Bernardin and some others would not have been made Cardinals either.” You dreamer you!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
MIKE, why would a wise bishop choose to accept false information? And who wants a fool for a bishop?!
Mike,
Wake up and smell the rotten Roses!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
So is it your intention Mr. Fisher to publically teach others that today we should all sit back and let the cancer spread, because in the past you personally have had some bad experiences?
Of should we follow Code of Canon Law and do something about it to the best of each of our ability to assist in purifying the Church?
Don’t you think GOOD Bishops need our support, so they know we stand with them?
Identifying the cancers, can only help save Souls within our Church.
(See “GAY CARDINALS 05-15″ by ChurchMilitantTV)
CCC: ” 212 §3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church
and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.”
CANON _ 212 §3. According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.
Mr. Fisher, in your day (no offense) the internet was not widely used.
Therefore many did not know about their right under Code of Canon Law to report abuses or to whom.
Today, we can all assist in reporting abuses to the US Papal Nuncio, and Vatican when a Bishop does not do his job.
Many voices will bring greater attention, than just a few. Perhaps your prayers are being answered, and you do not see it.
So where is Bishop Brom in this disgraceful charade? Out at Pacific Beach with his head in the sand? A really sinister thought occurred to me: this show is so audacious, so provocative, so in-your-face to Catholic tradition, would the sponsors have put it on unlsss they had some clandestine assurance that diocesan authorities would not object or interfere in any way? Hmmmmm.
BeauZeau,
Now you are talking! Please include Flores in this as well.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Why doesn’t the local bishop simply declare that this university is no longer Catholic. Cut all ties. Sue them if they continue to pretend they are Catholic, because, frankly, USD is polluting the image of the faith.
The public (especially those Catholics looking to send their kids to a Catholic university) needs to know that in the eyes of the Church, USD is not Catholic. WHy is the local bishop such a wimp about this?
It would be nice occasionally to hear a word of censure by the bishops in whose dioceses these schools are established. San Diego is by no means unique. Transvestite drag events are celebrated at many “Catholic” colleges with great regularity, as if they were no more than Oktobersfests.
I ask: Where is the outrage among the parents of these students? Have we sunk so low that we no longer care of the obscenities our children are exposed to, or worse, participate in? When an event of this sort went down at Santa Clara, bishop McGrath was informed but did nothing.
I have already renounced my alumni association with USD in protest. My humble donations will not be missed I’m sure. If USD is using the same playbook as Notre Dame in theObama fiasco, they won’t care a bit that millions of alumni donations are lost so long as they move this radical and antiCatholic agenda forward. I hoped that last year’s drag show caught the administration unaware, but now it is clear it is just another chess move to de-christianize this once good university. Until the bishop takes this challenge on and presses for a change in administration, this place should be allowed to just sink into the cesspool it created.
Bob,
The Cesspool it created is called HELL! Those responsible for this including the Bishops will soon find that out!
If I sound angry, I am. I am one of those who have even travelled to Rome about these affairs.
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
I was in the “gas lamp” district of Diego not to long ago. The girls’ were all “bronzed” in micro-mini-skirts and high heels…and if this wasn’t scandalous enough…the district was teeming with diesel “dykes”…prowling for “lipstick” lesbian’s to devour…shocking, positively shocking…
What a disgrace! This is not a place of learning but rather a place of sin!
What does the local Bishop say? Can’t they have their Catholic status revoked?
Yes, they can have their “Catholic” status revoked. But there is a process that must take place first.
The process includes – MIKE’s post of MAY 11, 2013 at 4:26 am – which quotes certain parts of Code of Canon Law.
Ultimately and after the required process which in the case of Universities (Colleges) includes the Holy See (Vatican), a Diocese Bishop could revoke the right to use the name “Catholic” within his Diocese per Code of Canon Law.
Code of Canon Law can be found on the Vatican web site.
In 2012 the Vatican ruled that a Peruvian school no longer has the right to be called a “Catholic” or “Pontifical” university.
We must all be the eyes and ears (including documentation) for our Diocese Bishop, US Papal Nuncio, and the Vatican, if we want true and faithful Catholic Universities. If we are lazy, we get what we deserve.
The bishop could talk USD into the ground, until its administrators literally slinked on and off of the campus and hid in their snake holes while there.
Perhaps the Bishop should have his Catholic status revoked!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
See how this works? You single out Catholics to be hated on, and this gives tacit approval of and encouragement to pursue different viewpoints and lifestyles (even when they’re obviously deathstyles.) Where’s the tolerance and diversity in that? Not to mention that “academic freedom” doesn’t protect anyone from following that deadly course of instruction.
We may never tolerate sin.
What we must do is love the sinner (and we’re all sinners in various ways) but hate the sin. The “gay” rights advocates demand: “Love me; love my favorite sin.” They want us to celebrate sodomy.
No.
(When we love our Neighbors we will want them to get to Heaven for eternity, not Hell.)
GOD HELP US! COME, LORD JESUS! MARANATHA!
University of Satan and Demons
Mandy,
Come on, you use the term lazy to flippantly!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Mary Anne,
“University of Satan and Demons”! I like that even better than my “University of Sad Diego”!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Many of the post Vatican ll bishops have been a disaster because ecclesial standards were lowered. Under the last two popes, excluding of course our latest new pontiff, the quality of appointments has improved greatly. Do not become discouraged! God is the one running the show. The scum in the barrel rises to the top where it ‘s then drained away. The Book of the Apocalypse States words to the effect, “let the filthy be filthy still and let the holy be holy still.” This does not mean of course that God approves of their evil but only that we have free will and God will not take that away, but we will all give an account of how we used that freedom. Nonetheless, we are obliged to fight against all such in every legitimate way we can. Much prayer and sacrifice would be a good start, in addition to withdrawing financial support. This sinful era is coming to a close soon. Trust in God!
At this time in its history, our Church has to pick its fights carefully. They lost mega credibility with the sex abuse scandal, which won’t go away any time soon. They’re exhausted, defeated, financially drained, and discouraged. To ramp up a new campaign against gays and lesbians would look hollow, hypocritical and weak. It doesn’t help that more than a few of the Catholic clergy and religious are gay and lesbian, anyway. The Church’s authority is further weakened when LA Church cover-up guru Roger Mahoney openly defies his superiors orders to stop any public ministry. Nobody blinks an eye and nobody calls him on it. If the Church can’t reign in Roger Mahoney, how can it expect to speak boldly on matters of faith and morals?
If someone wants a Catholic college education that is 100% consistent with the Vatican, they should look into home schooling.
Shame on Bishop Brom! Why hasn’t he taken all means necessary to stop USD from calling itself Catholic? Does he think perversion is compatible with Catholic teaching, or does he just “go along to get along?” Bishop Brom should called to account for not doing anything to stop this heresy. Is the Papal Nuncio aware of this Scandal?
Write to the US Papal Nuncio:
US Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò
3339 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C.,
Do not depend on other to write. We each must do it ourselves.
We in San Diego have had the pleasure of interacting with the co-adjutor bishop Cirilio Flores for about a year now, and he is a very open and obviously Catholic bishop. We have heard that Bishop Brom was supposed to retire, and that the letter from the Vatican acknowledging Brom’s retirement must be sent and officially be received before Brom’s retirement can take place. We have been waiting for that letter and the official word, but it has not happened yet. Someone earlier said that they suspect that this debacle of a show would be allowed by ommision, if I got that right, from the diocese, which is a scandel. last year I asked “how long, Lord?” but I think the Lord answered that one with “when will you all pray and fast to end this torture of My Body, the Church?” The only remedy to erradicate this kind of thing is that we ALL pray and FAST. This demon is only driven away by that means.
Fasting means to sacrifice ourselves, not just with food, but with others pleasures which will detract our attention away from God. We must all resolve to fast, from food (minimum of 600 calories to retain your health), from the world (movies, diversionss of any kind, going to the beach) and attend daily Mass and receive Holy Communion, with the intention of not allowing this Catholic University to be completely lost. We have Our Lady’s Immaculaa there, we can’t leave her abandoned among the garbage!
Prayer and Fasting is critical.
It is also critical to use the brains God gave us.
Using our brains – Write to the Vatican about Brom’s retirement age, and asking for a Bishop (who unlike Brom) is faithful to all the teachings of the Church as contained in the CCC, and Code of Canon Law.
600 calories per day over many days will not sustain anyone’s health but ruin it. That is six slices of white bread.
I agree with life lady….lets dedicate a day or more to praying and fasting, offer up your sufferings for these important concerns….
Lets teach our flesh to suffer with joy….offer up that suffering to our Lord. Nothing is impossible if we believe, lets not be like Peter who doubted and fell in the water, but if we do fall, then lets seek God’s help. It’s a humbling thing to do…..
That this year’s show is a more egregious violation of Catholic sensibilities than last year indicates to me that the culture war is over at USD, and the LBGT crowd has won. These students probably represent the views of their parents in many cases, and of the larger society as a whole. I have to think that Bishop Brom’s silence is not accidental. Either he has given up on the school or he agrees with its stance. it is easy to suppose he has given up: I can’t think of anything more humiliating than trying to present Catholic teaching to students and faculty who hate it. Why would the bishop want to subject himself to ridicule? Life is good in the episcopacy; why spoil it? And if he agrees with the LBGT crowd, that would be tragic but, hey, who wants to swim against the tide? or better, against the tsunami? I hope I am wrong in all this, and he picks up the cross and defends the faith regardless of the cost to him personally. And thus I shall pray.
Pigs that wear lipstick are not born that way.
WHILE THIS ‘CATHOLIC’ UNIVERSITY MAKES NO APOLOGIES FOR ITS NONSENSE, HERE IS WHAT CARNELIE MELLON DID—AND IT’S NOT EVEN CATHOLIC AT ALL:
After an official review of a blasphemous anti-Catholic display on campus, officials at Carnegie Mellon University have filed criminal charges against two students.
Jared Cohon, the president of Carnegie Mellon, revealed that campus police had filed indecent-exposure charges against students who had mocked the Pope while marching in a campus parade naked from the waist down. However, the university will not take any other disciplinary action against the students. Cohon explained that the school “upholds their right to create works of art and express their ideas,” but public nudity is a criminal offense.
Pittsburgh’s Bishop David Zubik had urged university officials to investigate the incident, elicitly Cohon’s admission that the display was “highly offensive.”
FROM CATHOLIC WORDS NEWS…
I would never want to be a Bishop. But if I were Bishop of San Diego I’d be in the office of the President of the University asking some very pointed questions about what would happen if I spoke out openly in opposition to the school and it’s anti-Catholic bigotry. Then I’d quietly remind him that his time at the University is nothing compared to what he will face when explaining this to God at the end of his life.
Excellent point. It would be lovely indeed if we had more bishops who think as you do and would dare to exercise leadership in keeping our Catholic schools and universities Catholic.
Of course there is wonderful Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, but the tragedy is that all so-called “Catholic” schools, colleges and universities are not very Catholic at all, and a few, such as USD, are openly and aggressively anti-Catholic in stunning defiance of their original founders’ high purposes in faithful service of the educational needs of young Catholic men and women. The phenomenal legacy of Catholic intellectualism is not being served at this institution, as it actively defies Catholic values, presumably to be considered attractive to the members of society who represent the lowest common denominator.
I meant to say that not all so-called “Catholic” schools, colleges and universities are very Catholic at all.
Fr. John,
EXACTLY! But then you would be acting like St. Paul taught a bishop should act!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
If there is LGBT and Trans at any school, be assured that there is also lots of drugs.
What kind of parent would pay the big bucks for their kid to go to this hell hole? Probably the same kind of parent who sits silently in the pews while Fr. Gay takes over as pastor and brings the politically arrogant Gays into the parish.
If you really want change, you will need to demand the resignation of your bishop and tell the Vatican that the people of the diocese want a priest as bishop who has a record as an activist Catholic.
I agree Barry. There have been many letters sent (maybe we should continue sending them till it brings some conversion and it;ll keep them in their toes and prayer) but I don’t know what else we can do to make better changes. I don’t want to give up but I feel that this needs to blow up on their faces now.
I think that the only thing to keep us going is our youth. We need to keep fighting for their sake. We have our own family to raise and I surely do not support this school and I have not given any donations to my diocese because I felt that they are leaving us dry in our faith.
You have some who have more power or money to help and you have the less fortunate who can pray and write letters or what have you to help with this ugly fight. Your youth are the ones who are being mislead and who are still very impressionable and this school and it’s leadership has let them all down by their lack of true authoritative. UGGG that is how I feel when I read these sort of articles. Everywhere I turn there seems to be some kind of battle we have an opportunity to fight but one can’t do all of them. The hearts of the people have to finally change for the good and better in order to make changes, a few can’t keep fighting these battles alone sooner or later they too will just up and go. There is power in numbers.
Barry,
Re.: “If you really want change, you will need to demand the resignation of your bishop and tell the Vatican that the people of the diocese want a priest as bishop who has a record as an activist Catholic.”, many of us have been there and done that and saw NO results!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
While the Shepards we away and totally asleap, the wolfs came devoured the sheep and now are dancing in the sheep pen with the lambs that are about to be eaten. The Lambs have no idea. The Shepards meanwhile are in denial. You wait until the owner of the Sheep comes and find his shepards not doing their job. He will be pissed.
I find your last word a little too repulsive to use in speech and somewhat off-putting to read on a Catholic site. I understand your points and believe that without vulgarity, arguments have more sway. And after all, you are correct.
“He will be filled with righteous wrath” would be a better way of saying it, bwangi Kilonzo. I do not blame you, but our society which has so vulgarized the English language now days that it hard for English as a Second Language People or foreigners, or even English as a First Language People, to know what words were once, and still are, considered vulgar. Even those who know English well, such as you, are confused often now. Years ago well brought up Americans would not have said many of the words used now days on television and in the movies in front of a lady. Most all of us blurt out a vulagarity at times when angry or hurt, but it is best to avoid using them at all. I try to say a Hail Mary when I offend.