University of Saint Thomas, as a matter of policy, apparently doesn’t tell young women if their assigned dorm roommate is is a bio-male who identifies as female:
This, according to [UST Housing Director Zoe] Chang, is done as discreetly as possible in order to avoid upsetting parents. The video, OMG said in an email, documents the “mountain of rule changes and preferential treatment provided to trans students when it comes to their housing accommodations.”
The video:
If progressive policies are so unambiguously good, why do they have to lie about all of them?
I believe it was David Strom’s piece about this where he noted that the University of St. Thomas is rewriting its own history. It now claims its founding was INSPIRED by the Catholic education tradition, good parts only of course, instead of the vile truth. UST was founded as a fully Catholic university built around a seminary and a large, beautiful church was literally built in the middle of school grounds.
UST has been running from its original status as religious institution in the hopes of over taking Macalester College as the wokest private college in St. Paul since well before Woke became a political word. Mixed sex roommate assignments and disinviting the espoused Catholic Michael Knowles are just 2 of the most recent examples. Last decade, Nekima Levy [Insert current names here] was able to afford being a black, oppressed activist because she had a cushy job with a nice salary from UST Law School. At the same time the UST Law School had another professor that was making local headlines by writing blatantly anti-capitalist far left op-eds instead of law review articles. Both professors, of course, highlighted their credentials as an “appeal to authority” when they weren’t claiming to be oppressed.
I’m a St. Paul kid with a lot of family connections to UST. I wouldn’t suggest either of my own children even contemplate attending that school anytime soon.
“Catholic” schools not directly owned by a parish are sanctioned by the RCC Church, but are not controlled by it in anything more than a very casual way.
My kids graduated from St. Agnes HS. The only thing keeping it the fantastic school it is, is the monsignor and the congregation.
If the priestly order connected with a school is Jesuit, it’s a pedo farm.
My wife and sister in laws (the terrors of Laurel St.) went to St. Luke’s and then 2 of them on to Derham hall, before it merged.
St. Luke’s is gone, and I wouldn’t send a kid to Cretin Derham on a bet today.
If progressive policies are so unambiguously good, why do they have to lie about all of them?
Because in their minds people are too stupid to understand how good and equitable those policies are.
St. Thomas was John Ireland’s way of preventing the Jesuits from gaining a foothold in the archdiocese. The Jebbies have colleges in most major metro areas in the country (Marquette, Loyola, SLU, Xavier, Boston College, Fordham, etc.) and MSP is a notable exception. That archdiocesan relationship remains. As a result, it’s a fair question to ask Archbishop Hebda about this topic.
Parish involvement isn’t any guarantee. The pastor (he may have moved on by now) at the parish I grew up in knowingly violated Church law by promising Communion to LGBT individuals he knew should not receive the sacrament.
I used to predict a coming schism between the more progressive American Catholic Church and the knuckle dragging holdouts that make up the European Catholic Church because I was young, dumb, and thought I was a tolerant liberal like any good 15-25 year old.
Now I’m rooting for cleansing of the heretics from the Catholic Church, though that might come by the true believers breaking away from the heretics at the top. The next papal election will be important.
This just further justifies my decision to walk away from Catholicism over twenty years ago. The only times I attended mass during that time was when I took my mom there after her dementia/Alzheimer’s prevented her from driving herself. I watched as the wokeness creeped in over the course of three years. Obviously, it’s gotten worse since 2018. Interestingly enough, I also watched as more of the older parishioners being replaced by younger Hispanics, Asians and Africans.
The next papal election will be important.
My (Catholic) wife thinks it will be a conservative bishop from Africa. I’m not holding my breath. Woke progressives are past masters at infiltrating and taking over conservative organizations.
Interestingly enough, I also watched as more of the older parishioners being replaced by younger Hispanics, Asians and Africans.
That’s where the energy in the Church resides, boss. And in my experience, these Catholics are more conservative than the older parishioners.
My (Catholic) wife thinks it will be a conservative bishop from Africa. I’m not holding my breath.
I think she’s right.
Neither my wife or I practice Catholicism any more. We’re Baptists.
We might join a Pope Pius X congregation, but there are none here.
The problem I have with Baptists & associated Evangelicals is that they take the Bible for its word, accept for Luke 22:19-20, John 6:56, and 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, which must be read symbolically.
You’re right MMP, Baptists do not endorse the transmogrified host.
tbh, I’ve long questioned it myself. How, for instance, can a priest who may have just sodomized a young boy, wield the power to bring the body and blood of Christ to the sacraments, when I cannot partake of them if I’m not in a state of God’s grace?
Do priests confess their degeneracy to one another before mass? Maybe they do, but I doubt it.
Back to the topic, the thing that bothers me the most about the issues at St. Thomas and elsewhere is nobody seems to ask the question: “what barriers are there to the fake ‘trans’ person who is seeking admission to female only spaces in order to rape them?”. And then you’ve got the question of “do we then victimize confused people by insisting they be castrated before entering these spaces so they can’t rape people in them?”.
Regarding the differences between Catholic and Baptist hermeneutics, there are a lot of places where they differ. “Literal” interpretation is (and I write as a Baptist myself) oversimplified, as I’d encourage a “literary” interpretation that (to use the example of the Lord’s Supper) asks questions like “had the Disciples actually thought they were eating (unkosher) human blood and flesh, wouldn’t they have objected?”. We will probably still differ on some of the applications, but a great start to thinking it through is to ask the questions of how the original hearers/readers would have interpreted the situation.