How Catholic are Catholic universities?Annysa at FaithWatch
Retired Marquette President Father Robert Wild will address that question at 7 p.m. tonight in the 2012 Jerome Lecture at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church, 995 S. Silver Lake St. in Oconomowoc.
Several Catholic Universities and have faced criticism in recent years over courses, appointments and invitations to speakers many conservative faithful deem not representative of Catholic teaching. They include Marquette, which ignited a firestorm in 2010 when it hired — and then rescinded its offer to — an openly gay woman whose views on homosexuality contradict the Catholic hierarchy’s[..tsk tsk].
Scholars have been sanctioned, and bishops have discussed ways to better rein in universities. Most Catholic universities, including Marquette, are privately chartered institutions. However, under canon law, local bishops are the final arbiter of whether they may call themselves Catholic, according to the Center for the Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University. Wild, who left Marquette in 2011, now serves as a special assistant for advancement for the Society of Jesus’, or Jesuits’, Chicago-Detroit and Wisconsin provinces.
Would someone be so kind to attend and get audio? Does anyone know if it will be recorded?
1 comment:
Ha, I'd love to hear what Fr. Wild is going to say. As a (now traditional Catholic) Marquette Alumni what is put under the banner of Catholicism at that school is frightening. Marquette is Georgetown with a shred of decency and crucifixes in the classrooms (for now).
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