A perfect display of what liberal “tolerance” means these days: apparently it’s now “intolerant” to put a crucifix in the classroom of a Catholic college. This comment is priceless:
But sophomore Alex LoVerde, 20, believes a crucifix “pushes the Catholic religion” and does not belong in a classroom. “I think the Jesuit tradition is more of openness and tolerance,” LoVerde said. “I think that an overt display of crucifixes is not what the Jesuits would have had in mind.”
Boston College really is failing its core educational mission if this sort of ignorance is common among its students.
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Dan Spencer
Dan McLaughlin
Wow
Alberta (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 12:48PM EST (link)“I think the Jesuit tradition is more of openness and tolerance,”
Too funny.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
Lack of success brings these kinds of complaints
ColbyS Thursday, February 12th at 12:50PM EST (link)When a kid gets into college only to find out that he isn’t that good at engineering, he isn’t that good at pre-med biology, and he isn’t that good at business or economics, then the only thing left to get attention is Complaining 101. I’m sure he has a future in journalism.
It's worse than that.
gekster (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 1:50PM EST (link)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit
and this is his second year?
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
The idiot quoted is a Sophomore?? Not to quick, is she??..nt
USNJIMRET (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 1:00PM EST (link)The comments are strongly supportive of the adminstration
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 1:00PM EST (link)Even in Boston, most readers see that the protesters have crossed one boundary too far.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Next thing you know they'll be allowing prayers at graduation
bk (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 1:59PM EST (link)...or even prayers during exams -nt-
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 2:03PM EST (link)The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
As long as there are Algebra tests, there will be prayer in school...nt
olsmithie (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 2:20PM EST (link)I went to a Jesuit college
angryred Thursday, February 12th at 2:10PM EST (link)Went to Fordham u and they billed themselves as ” a university in the catholic tradition”. Not a catholic university mind you. They have always been a little too liberal-then you get crackpot students like this!
1-20-13 Hope for Change
There are only around four truly "Catholic" universities in the US...
H (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 2:14PM EST (link)Ave Maria in Florida and the Franciscan University at Steubenville are two that come to mind offhand. The rest of the mainstream Catholic universities, the Notre Dames and Villanovas et al, have been steadily secularizing from the day they took their first federal dollar. Now, Moslem and/or gay/lesbian studies programs, and annual performances of “The V@gina Monologues” can be found at any you care to look in on.
Christendom, TAC, too n/t
Crowe (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:08PM EST (link)n/t
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”And, increasingly, CUA, and even Notre Dame is coming around lately...
Crowe (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:25PM EST (link)…though they still have a ways to go.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”what is too funny
JHancock (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 6:04PM EST (link)Trinity U in San Antonio (Presbyterian by covenant) has both a Wikkin and a Satanist student group. When I went to school there they met in a conference room in the basement of the Campus Chapel, I think the GLBTI group and Muslem student groups might have met in the Chapel too, although the GLBTI usually met in the library.
We're entrusting our "skulls full of mush" to the universities...
Steve Maley (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 2:21PM EST (link)…and we get them back, fuller and mushier.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
My daughter went to a secular liberal arts college...
Steve Maley (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 2:35PM EST (link)At her graduation, the Chaplain played a prominent role since one of the seniors’ grandmother was killed in a car wreck on the way to the ceremony.
The “Invocation” was the reading of a poem by Maya Angelou.
The deceased grandmother was acknowledged, IIRC, with a moment of silence & “our thoughts go out to you”.
The Chaplain judiciously avoided mention of a diety, a “force” or any kind of spiritual presence.
So I sez to myself: What’s the point of this particular college having a chaplain? Why not a resident poet, a TV Guide or a subscription to the Self-Help Book-of-the-Month Club instead? If you really don’t believe in anything, why bother with the formalities: the vestments, the trappings of office & the Plastic Xanax smile?
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
A Muslim Pushed to put the Crucifixes BACK into the classrooms at Georgetown
Crowe (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:24PM EST (link)A few years back Georgetown U folded to pressure and a misguided notion of tolerance and removed the crucifixes from their classrooms. One of the students who led the campaign to put them back was Muslim. He figured, “Hey, I knew I was coming to a Catholic university, so be Catholic. Don’t be less than you are. You can be sure that if you came to a Muslin university you’d see the crescent and star and Koranic verses prominently displayed.”
Two other points: 1) If you don’t respect your own beliefs, why should anyone else? 2) If you don’t respect your own beliefs, how long before you stop respecting others’ and switch to persecuting them as you’ve done to yourself?
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”Actually it was the Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown. He promised to go if the crucifixes went. [nt]
Martin Knight (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:42PM EST (link)I'll take your word for it...
Crowe (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 9:56PM EST (link)…but I was working at Leadership Institute shortly thereafter and the version of the story I got was that the conservative group on campus, which had received training at LI and counted a Muslim among its leaders, made a big deal about it at the student level…
perhaps we’re both right.
“We sleep soundly in our beds only because
rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harmDear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”To Quote from "Casablanca...."
redgirlinIL Thursday, February 12th at 4:22PM EST (link)I’m shocked, shocked to find that there is a crucifix seen here…I think the title “Jesuits Accused of Catholicism pretty much sums of the idiocy we call political correctness and the current interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Notice the placement in the story of "Most Students Agreed"
DONTREADONME (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 4:29PM EST (link)The story leads you to believe most agree with the protest of the crucifix installation; however, that is not truly the case if you read the whole thing and think for a second. This is a non-story, it would have been a story if a court agreed with the student.
Just some side commetary
mbauer (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 10:03PM EST (link)But in my Catholic upbringing, Jesuits were considered the navy seals of the clergy. Tolerance doesn’t come to mind as their unique concern.