As far as universities with Catholic charters go, Georgetown University has long ranked among the most embarrassing. I made mention of the university's disgraceful treatment of 2003 commencement speaker Francis Cardinal Arinze - a man who should be invited to many, many more commencements - in a previous post. When it comes to orthodoxy, Georgetown's theology department merits little more than a punchline. As with any school, there are bright spots in the university, but they are not to be found within the administration.
The latest stunt by the university? Honoring VP and latae sententiae excommunicate Joe Biden. Only in this case the Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law (don't names like that just make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end?) not only violated the directives of the USCCB, it also acted in formal cooperation with a secular pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage group, Legal Momentum.
I haven't really commented on this one as much as the Notre Dame scandal. This is not because it is any less egregious in its level of outrage, but because I have become so jaded by Georgetown that I expect no better from them; and since Georgetown's reputation has been considerably more tarnished among Catholics than Notre Dame's, there is less potential there for widespread deception of the faithful. That said, this scandal is every bit as meritorious of denunciation.
Amazing that the oldest Catholic university in the United States, founded by Fr. John Carroll, the first Bishop of the United States, could have sunk this low. Yet that is inevitably what happens when one seeks the approval of the princes of this world ahead of the approval of the King of Heaven. God bless!
In Jesus and Mary,
Gerald
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