The numbers for membership in the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) are bleak. The average age of a Jesuit in the US is nearly 70, and “Jesuit schools” (including Georgetown) find themselves increasingly devoid of any actual Jesuits. Most extreme are those schools like Washington Jesuit Academy, which no longer has any full-time Jesuit staff… Continue reading Why the Jesuits Are Dying Out
Tag: What’s Wrong With Georgetown
A Telling Comment
Back in March, I posted on Georgetown’s Law’s “Lavender Graduation.” It is, in the words of Dean of Student Mitch Bailin,”a special ceremony designed to celebrate the contributions and achievements of Georgetown’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender graduating students.” My argument is pretty simple: there’s simply no way a self-proclaimed Catholic university can affirm this.… Continue reading A Telling Comment
Georgetown’s Latest Slap in the Face of God
The Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae is a comprehensive explaination by Pope John Paul II of what a Catholic University is, and ought to be. Paragraph 13 is something of a thesis. It reads: Since the objective of a Catholic University is to assure in aninstitutional manner a Christian presence in the university world confrontingthe… Continue reading Georgetown’s Latest Slap in the Face of God
The Restoration Will Not Be Televised
Father David M. O’Connell has stepped down as president of D.C.’s own Catholic University of America. Under his twelve year watch, the school went from being a hotbed of dissent and heresy to one of all-too-few outstandingly Catholic universities, making the Cardinal Newman Society’s list of authentic Catholic colleges (sadly, only 21 US Catholic colleges… Continue reading The Restoration Will Not Be Televised
A New Low at Georgetown.
Last night, as I was leaving campus (much too late, but alas), I noticed this poster on the wall: If you can’t read it, here’s what you need to know: The picture says, “Even though we know dinosaurs survived the flood (on Noah’s Ark) we don’t know if Jesus ever rode them. But He probably… Continue reading A New Low at Georgetown.
Georgetown, Seriously?
I know, I know, on Saturday I said that I would probably do a post yesterday on Christological prophesies in the Old Testament, and on the issue of typology, but I didn’t. I’ll get to it eventually, but there are a lot of other things I want to talk about in the meantime. One of… Continue reading Georgetown, Seriously?
Georgetown: Caesar > Jesus?
If you follow Catholic (or even political) news, you’ve probably already heard about the recent scandal at Notre Dame University. ND has a generally proud Catholic tradition, (although there have been a few notable missteps), and has suffered greatly for the actions of her president, Fr. John Jenkins. Fr. Jenkins decided that the appropriate way… Continue reading Georgetown: Caesar > Jesus?