I'm not an alum, just a fan of the great Notre Dame University, and thus am very disappointed that the school's president has cleared the way for the Vagina Monologues to be performed on campus.
The play is everywhere. Anyone who wants to see it can. But a Catholic university that seeks to uphold Catholic moral teaching undermines that mission by providing a platform for a play that stands for anything but traditional Catholic moral teaching.
On a day when there is awful news about the toll of modern sexual mores on the health of young women, this announcement by Father Jenkins seems almost designed to announce surrender or worse, collapse. I wonder what the nuns of America think about this --at least those of the generations that taught me. Sister Noreen, Sister Mary Jean, and many thousands of others dedicated their entire lives to the idea that Catholic moral education mattered enough to devote their entire careers to it. Now the lighthouse institution of Catholic education in America throws in with the wreckers. Simply unbelievable.
Pity poor Mrs. Hewitt.
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