From March 31 to April 2, the University of San Francisco is hosting its 14th Annual “Human Rights Film Festival.” The festival was covered by CalCatholic in the 2007 article “Films Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual, and Murderous: Jesuit University says pro-abortion documentary celebrates ‘the power of the human spirit and intellect to prevail.’”
This year’s festival indicates that not much has changed in nine years—including the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s apparent ‘hands off’ approach to one of the ‘Catholic’ institutions under its jurisdiction. The entries include a series called “Queer Migration: Multiple Borders.” USF’s website lists the films, which are to be screened at USF’s Presentation Theater on April 1:
Corazón de Melon by Zoila Aviles. A queer Mexicana couple journey through online dating and across borders to find their Corazón de Melon.
My Beautiful Resistance by Penny Baldado. From the roots of struggle, My Beautiful Resistance inspires an undocumented, gender non-conforming, queer Filipina to start a cafe.
Coming In America by Aba Taylor. Queer Africans share their personal journey across continents to preserve culture and create community in Coming In America.
The Invitation by Heba Gamal. A young queer Egyptian resists her mother’s pressure to wed a man after she receives The Invitation.
Crossing Barriers: To Re-Gay Ourselves, by Carolina Reyes. Young LGBTQ people of color are Crossing Barriers: To Re-Gay Ourselves as they navigate identity and acceptance.
Casey’s Hope, by Sanjay Chhugani, Viet Hoang, Casey Huynh. For a Chinese-Vietnamese queer refugee, Casey’s Hope is found in starting a family of her own.
De Colores, Our Lives, by Edgardo Antonio Jr, Jovanka Beckles, Nicole Valentino. An Afro-Latina queer couple explores De Colores, Our Lives at the intersection of cultural, sexual, and racial identity.”
A number of the “Queer Migration” films were produced by members of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, whose founder and Executive Director, Madeleine Lim, has served as an Adjunct Professor of Media Studies at USF since 2004. Her USF biographical page lists as accomplishments: the 2005 LGBT Local Hero Award from KQED-TV “in recognition of her leadership of QWOCMAP and her dedicated service to the queer women of color community”, the 2011 Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Award from the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club, and the 2013 State Farm Good Neighbor Award presented by Equality California.
USF’s festival organizers even managed to insert the “Queer” motif into other subjects. The blurb for the film “American Dreamers,” which is about illegal immigrant youth, closes with the statement “They are undocumented and unafraid. And some are UndocuQueer, too.”
In March 2016, CalCatholic ran a number of articles documenting anti-Catholic and homosexualist activism at two of California’s Jesuit Universities, the University of San Francisco and Santa Clara University:
Global Women’s Rights Forum returns to University of San Francisco (March 14, 2016)
Radical pro-gay priest to speak at Catholic San Francisco parish (March 16, 2016)
What does Father Link know that the Archdiocese of San Francisco doesn’t? (March 18, 2016)
New Santa Clara theology dean opened IgnatianQ Conference (March 28, 2016)
Although CalCatholic’s recent stories focused on California’s Jesuit institutions, the problem affects Jesuit Universities as a whole. Austin Ruse, in a March 30 Breitbart article, reported that the Jesuit institution Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, plans to fire one of its professors: “Marquette University has moved to suspend and then fire Professor John McAdams for backing a student who tried to defend man-woman marriage when a leftist teaching assistant shut the student down.”
That a professor is being fired from a university for defending Catholic teaching on natural marriage is not extraordinary, given the current climate of campus restriction and censorship. That a professor is being fired from an ostensibly Catholic University for defending Catholic teaching is more surprising. That the firing is being uncontested by the Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki of the Diocese of Milwaukee is unconscionable and inexcusable. It is unconscionable because a member of the Listecki’s flock is suffering for the Catholic faith without any public support from his Father in faith, the bishop. It is inexcusable because supporting McAdam on this issue is a requirement of Archbishop Listecki’s job description; it is he who is the arbiter of truth in the Diocese of Milwaukee-and the authority on the meaning of the word ‘Catholic.”
This article does not mean to single out Archbishop Listecki. He certainly is not responsible for the Catholic Church in San Francisco; Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is. Unfortunately, both prelates’ inaction on the issue is more the rule than the exception. When exceptions do occur they are striking: this year, America’s oldest Jesuit University, Georgetown, extended a speaking invitation to Planned Parenthood’s Executive Director, Cecile Richards. The Archbishop of Washington, D.C., Donald Wuerl, had an unambiguous response: Richards’ Georgetown appearance is “incompatible with the values that should prevail on an authentically Catholic university’s campus.”
Georgetown disregarded the Archbishop’s statement. Richards’ speech is going on as scheduled. But now no one can plausibly claim uncertainty about what is and is not Catholic in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.
This is allowed to go on and on because the Church hierarchy is filled with gays and have no problem with any of this.
Especially here in SF.
canisius, i hope you’re wrong about the first part of your explanation. but the second half seems to be definitely true. i have always thought that the reasons for the supine posture included :1) ‘following national guidlines’ which the bishops certainly set as policy, as seemed to be the case with inaction on molestation accusations, 2) fear to step out and set precedent without approval of all other bishops. i think that there was a real bfear that the dominoes would start to fall and cost millions(plus a bishop’s job, the first whistleblower would be toast) and then ,3, fear of offending the weak of faith.
Drewelow I am right … gays need to be completely and totally purged from the Church clerical and laity, they are demonic force destroying from within,,,
Actually given how many gay people are priests, I wonder how greater acceptance by society and greater rejection by folks like you and Pope Benedict, it will be interesting to see the long term affect on the priesthood and the Church. Maybe the Church collapses further as even fewer men sign up, and more people reject homophobia.
YFC….It is not homophobic to be against homosexual sin. The Church almost collapsed precisely because they allowed men with deep seated homosexual tendencies to be admitted to the Priesthood but with the prohibition now in place thanks to Pope Benedict, and newer more conservative Priests signing up, we should, please God, have this abomination behind us.
Ronnie “homophobic” is a made up word by the sexual anarchist left, do not use their terminology , do not allow them to set the argument… rip it from them
This problem is not that the Church is opposed to gay sex, this problem is that they are opposed to gay PEOPLE. Gay PEOPLE are not allowed into the seminary, regardless of how they behave or how holy they are.
There has never been shown to be a problem with gay PEOPLE (or straight PEOPLE) in the priesthood or religious life, so long as they keep their hands to themselves.
“There has never been shown to be a problem with gay PEOPLE (or straight PEOPLE) in the priesthood or religious life,” YFC tell that to the people of the Boston Archdiocese….
YFC states “There has never been shown to be a problem with gay PEOPLE in the Priesthood…”
Are you serious? The majority of the sex abuse scandal involved homosexual abuse! The Church is not opposed to ‘gay people’. They have a support group “Courage” which embraces those struggling with same-sex attraction. What the Church has a problem with is the promotion of homosexual sin or any sin for that matter.
Actually YFC people like me are legion…the Church will be purged and God (yes Him) will bring up good and Holy priests. Yes the Church may shrink but we have been there before.
in a 2010 interview with NCR, a quick backgrounder mentions listecki’s fearless outspokeness before his milwaukee appointment. among other things, he warned parents to not let their kids go to see ‘the golden compass’ lest they be led astray’. this is 1000 times worse because hollywood is not part of the church and the leading astray is coming from within ranks of those who allege to profess the faith in the midst of kids now in their college and post-grad years.
Every day I get more turned off with the Catholic hierarchy. We have asked them for bread, and they have repeatedly given us stones. We asked for water, and they have given us poisonous snakes. We begged for the truth, and they have given us lies. With the Church, in general, it is like moving the deck chairs on the Titanic. They cannot see that the Bride of Christ is self destructing, and they are totally responsible for it. Meanwhile, evangelical churches are growing. Tragic indeed.
Slippery slope and “little things” that the clergy have ignored and allowed now for decades have contributed greatly to allowing for such public dissent. The pulpit seldom mentions contraception when statistics indicate the majority of “faithful” practice it. Although every Friday is still a day of penance and the church decided years ago to treat us as adults to choose what form of penance we might exercise, almost all Catholics think that our obligation to do penance on Fridays was abolished with the allowing of the faithful to eat meat on them, except during Lent. Again, seldom a word from the pulpit to the contrary, and no one seems to have a reasonable explanation as for the silence from the pulpit, at least not here in Oregon.
Dear Catholic People in the Pews,
Many people we know are not aware of the EWTN Catholic TV network, much to our surprise. So I say by way of introduction, you should watch EWTN as if your lives depended on it. Much fruit (conversions, re-verts, etc.) has come from this TV network’s programming. Mother Mary Angelica, it’s founder, bless her memory and may she rest in peace, once said, I am so tired of you liberal church. She felt they were not respecting Jesus as they should. After that, she went to ‘spiritual war’ to dedicate the network to not just preserving but also advancing conservative and traditional Church principles. This network, God willing, will be part of the ‘last stand’ against the progressive take…
Dear Catholic People in the Pews, …..Continued
This network, God willing, will be part of the last stand against the progressive takeover of the Church. It is a light shining in the wilderness. My family and I look to it as a refuge in a troubled world. May the graces abundant at EWTN fall upon us and give us God’s peace, spiritual strength and guide us. Also, there web site has a wealth of traditional spiritual help for all ages. God preserve them at EWTN.
Pilar don’t be discouraged and remember that the Catholic Church and all of us are not fighting against principalities of the flesh but principalities of the spirit world. The devil and his minions are in full attack mode against the Bride of Christ and will continue to be so until the Second Coming of Jesus Christ Lord of Lords King of Kings, True God and True Man. And remember what scripture tells us on this matter that not even the gates of hell will prevail against the Church. Last but certainly not least Pray, Pray and Pray Our Lady’s Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Jesus will come soon at the appointed day and hour that only God the Father knows.
God has a problem with it even if some religious do not, thus all the STD’s, anal and colon cancers, cancers of the mouth and so forth.
Here is what St. Faustina writes in her diary about mercy under #1160: “When once I asked the Lord Jesus how He could tolerate so many sins and crimes and not punish them, the Lord answered me, ‘I have eternity for punishing these, and so I am prolonging the time of mercy for the sake of sinners. But woe to them if they do not recognize this time of My visitation.’ ” He also told her to pray for grace for them to repent..
Anne T. we are currently living in the last years of the time of mercy. Bless you for quoting from St. Faustina’s Diary on this Divine Mercy Sunday. Brothers and sisters in Christ Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day for none of us knows when the time of mercy will be over. Remember to say every day I love you Jesus, I thank you Jesus, I trust in you Jesus. For the sake of his sorrowful passion have mercy on us in the whole world.
Anne T. we are currently living in the last years of the time of mercy. Bless you for quoting from St. Faustina’s Diary on this Divine Mercy Sunday. Brothers and sisters in Christ Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day for none of us knows when the time of mercy will be over. Remember to say every day I love you Jesus, I thank you Jesus, I trust in you Jesus.
Anne T. we are currently living in the last years of the time of mercy. Bless you for quoting from St. Faustina’s Diary on this Divine Mercy Sunday. Remember to say every day I love you Jesus, I thank you Jesus, I trust in you Jesus.
It certainly seems so, John. At a time when society needs to help married, two- parent heterosexual couples with children and to encourage them to stay together by giving them the benefits needed to help each child have a decent home with both a mother and father, or at least an adoptive mother and father, Satan seems to be doing all he can to use others to rip traditional families apart.
We Catholics simply need to understand that our Bishops/Archbishops do not have time to address this issue and other religious issues. They have been too busy pushing for a $15 minimum wage in California. Just wait until the impact of higher wages is felt at the parish level, and pastors are forced to lay off workers because they do not have the funds to pay the staff.
Thanks again, John. U R right!
Catholics who feel they are gay but don’t practice the despicable acts associated with their perverted sex practices are to be lauded for doing the Will of Our Lord and remaining pure. The whole gay movement is an attack on purity.
Sadly, the death rate of practicing homosexuals is twenty years less on average than normal persons.
“Sadly, the death rate of practicing homosexuals is twenty years less on average than normal persons.”
Yes, that would be sad, but fortunately, it’s not true. That false statistic has been debunked 1,000 times over; or at least no more true or false than it is for practicing heterosexuals.
And consider this: Senior care services for its aging population is a growing concern of the LGBT community.