Comments on Creative Minority Report: Liberal Groups Angry at Catholic College. Yes!

baby steps. Baby steps are good.

2008-08-21T10:25:53.731-04:00

baby steps. Baby steps are good.

Aw,... Raddy Ruether is not so rosy. Ain't life ju...

2008-08-21T03:55:54.278-04:00

Aw,... Raddy Ruether is not so rosy. Ain't life just so unfair.

It was just last year when the President of USD re...

2008-08-21T03:09:02.523-04:00

It was just last year when the President of USD refused to reconsider hosting someone named Andrea Smith from a group called Incite! to their campus. This is a big step, even if it just got too much press to gloss over.

"Ruether writes a regular column for National Cath...

2008-08-20T22:36:51.908-04:00

"Ruether writes a regular column for National Catholic Reporter..."

This should have been a red flag for somebody.

Why did they offer her the post in the first place...

2008-08-20T21:33:53.073-04:00

Why did they offer her the post in the first place? They really didn't know about her position on abortion?

I am afraid they thought they could get away with it and discovered that they couldn't, so they backpedalled.

Lets just hope they don't unbackpedal when the pressure from the "witches and priestesses group" gets too noisy.
Susan Peterson

I'll take what I can get. Kudos to Provost Sulliv...

2008-08-20T18:33:58.450-04:00

I'll take what I can get. Kudos to Provost Sullivan for doing the right thing.

One small step can lead to great leaps...let's pray hard...

USD has certainly changed; I remember "back in th'...

2008-08-20T17:10:12.017-04:00

USD has certainly changed; I remember "back in th' day" when they took down the Stations of the Cross, and chapel was led by a it's-all-about-me hippie in a Roman collar.

I had some wonderful professors, but given the fact that I was nine years paying off the loans, I could have just as well gone to UCSD.

-- Mack Hall, '76

I would say it is not a case of "academic freedom ...

2008-08-20T17:03:37.205-04:00

I would say it is not a case of "academic freedom versus adherence to church teachings." What is often called academic freedom is actually academic license. We are only fully free when pursuing the truth.

Pope Benedict said when he was here

"In regard to faculty members at Catholic colleges universities, I wish to
reaffirm the great value of academic freedom. In virtue of this freedom you are
called to search for the truth wherever careful analysis of evidence leads you.
Yet it is also the case that any appeal to the principle of academic freedom in
order to justify positions that contradict the faith and the teaching of the
Church would obstruct or even betray the university's identity and mission; a
mission at the heart of the Church's munus docendi and not somehow
autonomous or independent of it. "

I have created an online petition to counter the f...

2008-08-20T17:00:54.863-04:00

I have created an online petition to counter the faculty. Visit www.BrianMcDaniel.org.

Interesting news, but don't let's get our hopes up...

2008-08-20T16:24:24.893-04:00

Interesting news, but don't let's get our hopes up. It would indeed be like hell freezing over if USD were to become a *faithful* Catholic institution again.

Beware of flip-flopping, is all I'm saying. It *is* USD.

You know, it took me about a minute of me staring ...

2008-08-20T13:59:07.348-04:00

You know, it took me about a minute of me staring at that remark to understand it. I'm with you now but it took me a second or 60.

Meanwhile in other news; Lucifer has been seen str...

2008-08-20T13:54:18.315-04:00

Meanwhile in other news; Lucifer has been seen strapping on a pair of ice skates.