President DeGioia’s decision to fund a resource center for LGTBQ students was huzzahed both on-campus and online. But if you thought his sensible decision would go over well on the internet, you don’t know Catholic activists. Several Catholic and conservative religious websites are less pleased.
One asks readers to contact the Archbishop of Washington about Georgetown’s designation as “Catholic.” Another says DeGioia wimped out:
Once again, when the culture wars come to the Catholic university, we see the white flag waved from the administration building before the fighting has a chance to begin. Once again, the threatened battle is a battle the administrators want to lose.
The reaction isn’t surprising, but the resource center seems like such a reasonable concession that conservative, Georgetown-fixated Catholics would focus their ire on the Law Center-abortion dispute instead.
After the jump, blog commenters call us apostates.
The Catholic World News article’s real value was in its blog comments, which got progressively crazier until they hit Catholic factionalism gold: the Jesuits vs. everybody else.
- ““CATHOLIC” does not belong in Georgetown’s name. When is the Vatican going to get rid of these apostates!”
- “Will the resource center include a priest and a confessional?”
- “Typically Jesuit. As others have wished/prayed, time for the Pope to rein in (or disassociate from) the Jesuit order unless/until it returns to the Roman Catholic Church, not as the Jesuits define the RCC, but as Christ created it.”
-Will Sommer, blog editor. Via Degenerate & Collegiate.
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