The following comes from an August 12 Church Militant article by Bradley Eli:
The Jesuit-run University of San Francisco (USF) is promoting contraception and gender ideology on the university’s website. In addition, the supposedly Catholic university provides gender-inclusive housing for students while encouraging them to explore their so-called gender identities.
On USF’s website under “Reproductive Health,” the university asks, “Looking for more information about available forms of contraception that align to you and your partner’s values? Take a look at the following resources to help you make healthy and responsible choices.”
On the university’s page marked “Birth Control (Contraceptive) Methods,” after giving a faint nod to Church teaching, USF then promotes the use of contraception.
As a Catholic university we provide the following information not to promote the use of contraception. … [W]e encourage all who are sexually active to behave responsibly in their decisions. Whatever your sexual orientation happens to be, if you choose to be sexually active, it is also very important to be respectful of yourself and your partners, including reducing the risk of passing sexually transmitted infections.
While using language that justifies sexual activity outside of marriage, USF fails to provide any Catholic teaching on the immorality of such actions. USF is also silent on the abortifacient nature of certain birth control methods it presents as options.
In addition to promoting the use of contraception amongst the student body, the university is also pushing students to embrace gender ideology. The stated purpose of USF’s Gender and Sexuality Center, which they run on campus, is to help students “explore” their gender and sexual identities. Nowhere on the website is presented Church teaching concerning a person’s gender in a natural relationship to one’s biological sex.
In support of gender ideology, USF provides “gender inclusive housing” for students who identify as “transgender” or any number of other so-called “gender identities.” This program allows biological males and females to cohabit provided they accept the erroneous notion that “human beings are not necessarily male or female as ascribed by their assigned gender at birth.”
All of these student outreach programs are run under the purview of the new vice provost, Julie Orio. Orio is actively involved with the Women’s Community Clinic located in San Francisco, which performs medical abortions and provides the abortifacient Plan B pill.
No need to say “supposedly Catholic”. Nobody seriously believes USF is Catholic anymore and, contrary to what some people who post on this site would say, you don’t need a court ruling to tell you what to believe when you can form intelligent conclusions on your own.
USF = University of Satanic Formation
SHAME ON THE JESUITS, WHO ALL LOST THEIR FAITH!! Well, I was reading about the Vatican’s recent offer of a personal prelature to the SSPX (similar to Opus Dei)– and their recent steps with the Vatican, towards a full acceptance with Rome. Sounds like their long exile may be over! If this is true, then I would like to join the SSPX as a lay member, for their prelature, and participate as a layman! I recall being accepted with honors into USF, after graduation from high school, many long years ago. USF was once an excellent Jesuit school, and the Jesuits used to practice the exact same Catholic Faith, that the SSPX does, today! But the Jesuits lost their Catholic Faith!
That’s right. Homosexuality spun the Jesuits into a theological fantasy land.
Their legal settlement bill for the (mostly homosexual) abuse complaints against them was an aggregate $250 million – that’s right – a quarter billion dollars. Their insurers paid a good portion, and a significant amount came from their investment capital, presumably funded in great part from charitable donations made by dumb Catholics.
Thanks for your post, Ralph! It is also a HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE– that a Jesuit priest who was finally convicted of severe cases of child sex molestation, committed over a number of years— was also a Confessor to Blessed Mother Teresa, for some years! MAKES ME SICK!! WHOM CAN YOU TRUST? Even a nun, destined to become a great saint– WHOM CAN SHE TRUST— FOR THE NECESSARY SACRAMENTS OF HER CHURCH??
Linda Maria, not all the Jesuits are bad. There are still some very good ones, who get clobbered the same way we do by their fellow Jesuits.
The minuscule number of good Jesuits is irrelevant to the discussion. This is about the Order which marginalizes, silences, and even exiles their orthodox members. The Order has paid out $250 million in sexual abuse settlements and is dominated by homosexuals and their supporters. The Order is causing extreme damage to the Church and its members and should be disbanded and closed. The good priests can go elsewhere.
Outrageous! Not unexpected with the new vice provost, Julie Orio’s BIO. But the speed & depth of the jumping into the pits of hell is frightening. Pray for them. God will not be mocked. Jesuits OPENLY supporting the unholy perversions of Sodom & Gomorrah VS supporting chaste life styles (which we are all called to) IS a great spiritual scandal in the war of good & evil raging around us. USF mocks God & the Catholic faith by these immoral actions. Will they be taken to the wood shed or excommunicated? If not, can’t we BOYCOTT them & pull out any & all support as soon as practical? I believe we have a duty to BOYCOTT & admonish them because after this, supporting them would be sinful.
Many (but comparatively small numbers of us) do boycott them. But the Jesuits don’t care. They completely believe in themselves. The Jesuits don’t want any more to do with their opponents than we do with them. They’ve got plenty of customers. At this point they’ve managed to corrupt about three generations of alumni into believing in feminism and Marxist politics, who in turn pass the corrupt modern Jesuit values onto their children. These alumni are rabid fans of their alma maters, and it really shows up in the West Coast schools.
Maybe its time for another suppression of the Jesuits as happened in the 18th century in Portugal, France and the Spanish Empire. Viewed then by the monarchs of those countries – who were trying to centralize and secularize – as too close to the papacy and interfering with their plans, they were suppressed by Pope Clement XIV. Now its upside down – these rebellious Jesuits are too far from the Papacy and too accommodating to the secular world. Put their educational institutions back in traditional hands.