Irresponsible and filthy, sinful, false “Catholic” teachers and professors, in a Catholic school—greatly endanger the kids!  Parents pay good money to specially send their children to good Catholic institutions!  If these institutions are all evil, filthy and corrupt—they should all be shut down, by the local bishop—and the sinful people involved, should all be excommunicated, ASAP!! And if necessary—crime reports should be immediately made, to local police!

Who did the background check on this guy?

Blessings on Bishop McManus for being a courageous apostle of Christ.  May the Lord bless and prosper his diligent care of his flock.

How foolish are the parents who pay hard earned money for this trash at Holy Cross.
The Jesuits have their own religion as the bishop of Rome clearly demonstrates.
Thanks to the Bishop of Worcester for speaking out….doing his job.

A Catholic school or university—is NOT a filthy slum, a sewer, with a despicable, low-class, or even criminal teaching staff—located in the worst part of town, morally endangering and corrupting kids—a horrible place, that the cops ought to shut down!!  Yet, that is exactly what some of them are, these days, since Vatican II!!  I am so sorry that Vatican II upholds so-called “freedom of religion,” and “freedom of conscience,” to the point of ridiculously and irresponsibly allowing many in the clergy, as well as many laymen in professsional positions, to destroy our Church!  What is so badly needed, is discipline!!  All those in authority positions, should be given the correct RESPONSIBILITY to administrate and to govern Catholic institutions correctly, applying Church discipline, as required—it is all in our Code of Canon Law!!  How much longer, are our Church prelates going to be scared to death, of responsibility and discipline??

The Professor should have been rejected—-should have been refused employment at “any” Catholic institution—-from janitor to superintendent—-when his book was written and published.  Please don’t tell us that he is a “Catholic”  writing such poisonous lies that have no basis in the life of Christ as reported to us in the New Testament by Christ’s Apostles. 

How can anyone in the Church condone the insidious brainwashing of Catholic children that this man has perpetrated over the last ten years?  Christ was born on Earth to do God’s Will.  That means He   completely gave up His Will to the Father———gave up any will of His own for the length of time He was on earth.  He had no “personal” desires or wants while He was on earth.  He ate, wore, and accepted whatever was given, or put before Him—-which is why He was essentially without a home or “place to rest His head” when He began and finished His ministry.  That is why He was able to do God’s Will to the end—-to give up His life on the Cross for our sins.  He had no will to do otherwise—-only God’s Will prevailed.

The Professor’s book is not just a vile attack on Jesus Christ; it is an attack on the Bible, the Apostle’s who narrated Christ’s life and ministry; and an attack on Almighty God who sent Christ to earth to die for our sins.  It is an attack on you, me, and every Catholic who professes belief in Jesus Christ our Savior.  Forgive all of us, Jesus—- for allowing this to happen. 

May God deal with your enemy and ours—-swiftly and justly. 

This is written in my name.    Ruth Ruhl-LaMusga

To: Dennis O’Connor: Because Holy Cross is a Jesuit institution, rather than a diocesan college, there is little the bishop can do.

My daughter graduated from Central Michigan University, a public university. I remember during her freshman orientation there was a table featuring information on all the local places of worship (addresses, times of worship, etc.). There are three churches - Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist on the campus as the school expanded around them.

Central Michigan is far more Catholic than my Jesuit alma mater - University of Detroit (Mercy).

Did it take ten years to uncover this incredible desecration of the Son of God?  Commmmmmon!

What a lame excuse for allowing this sort of blasphemous author to teach in a Catholic institution.

I hate to think of what ideas this pagan is filling the heads of those eager learn and please
their Professor.

George

If a biology teacher at the Holy Cross University were to teach that children were not conceived by their parents, but possibly were delivered by storks, he or she would not last too long at that university even if he or she stated, “Academic freedom is one of the hallmarks of a liberal arts education.”  Why then should a theology teacher at a Catholic University be able to teach something as possibly true which is contrary to the Catholic faith?

Congratulations to the Bishop for protecting his flock.

This is bizarre and to frame it as academic freedom adds further insult to our faith.  It is long overdue that Pope Francis, himself a Jesuit, take a stand against any Catholic college that so viciously mocks the religion it purports to represent.

How could such a person be the chair of New Testament studies?  I am grateful that the bishop stated, without equivocation, his condemnation of such blasphemy.  Why am I not surprised that it is being defended by a Jesuit!  Academic freedom doesn’t mean you lose your ability to discern truth from trash.

My Dear Bishop,
Apparently you aren’t aware that these attacks ON Catholic colleges is standard fare. I detest someone insulting my Lord and Savior, let alone garner a position at a Catholic Institution. This professor should not be given a second thought. Give him the boot and let him spew his vile elsewhere. As a 50s Catholic this nonsense would never have been tolerated . . yes, tolerated. And the good Jesuit father should rethink his position too.
Very irate.

Holy Cross is a Jesuit college, so why is this unusual? If the Jesuits are anything, they are heretical. 95% of today’s so-called Catholic colleges and universities are Catholic in name only, so why waste your hard-earned money sending your children there?

There are still some truly Catholic colleges and universities (Franciscan University at Steubenville, Ava Maria, University of Mary, etc.), but they represent a small minority.

Shall I yawn at the bishop’s, better late than never, fit?  As a Catholic who has watched the the last three archbishops of Boston trip over themselves as they run to kiss the feet of the Jesuits at BC, while BC honors anyone willing to undermine Catholic belief,do you seriously think the Jesuits are frightened of a squealing bishop?....What is he going to do….excommunicate them…place Holy Cross under an interdict…deprive them of their right to call themselves a “Catholic ” college?  None of the above will happen, I assure you. If I remember correctly at one point Holy Cross rented out space to Planned Parenthood for something or other….  and nothing happened. BC gave an honorary law degree to the prime minister of Ireland as he was trying to dismantle Ireland’s pro life laws at home. I walked out of my own son’s graduation ceremony when the man rose to speak.  Georgetown has just honored Senator Durbin, even though his bishop has told him not to receive the Sacrament because of Durbin’s rabid pro choice positions.  Are the Bishops now just awakening to the fact that many Catholic colleges exist to destroy the faith? Seriously I would laugh at the farce of it all if I did not want to cry. The bishops have reduced themselves, when they momentarily come out of their collective stupor, to sound and fury signifying nothing. The bishops ceased doing their jobs a long time ago and now no one even bothers to pay attention because there are never any consequences. Just as an aside…the “pope” is a Jesuit…more so now than ever no bishop would want to ruin his career.

If “academic freedom” trumps “Catholic Truth” at a Catholic University, then the Catholic Church should excommunicate the university.

We have freedom of speech but holding certain views may be incompatible with holding a particular position where those views conflict with the duties of that position.  Liew can write what he likes but should not expect to hold his job whatever.

I would say that Liew’s view of Christ as a “drag queen” inherently is heresy.
Catholic teachings do not allow such blatant ideas.

Just two comments:

1. What the heck took so long?

2. I’m tired of Catholic institutions of lower learning hiding behind this veil. I have yet to see this so called educational “freedom” benefit a school, our church or society.

In my humble opinion,the Land O’ Lakes statement was the worst thing to happen to the Catholic Church in 500 years.  But when several Catholic university leaders gathered in the summer of 1967 at a remote retreat in Land O’ Lakes, Wisconsin, did they fully anticipate the consequences of their vision for “modern” Catholic education? Hopefully not.

It was 50 years ago, on July 20-23, when Notre Dame’s Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., gathered his peers to draft and sign the “Land O’ Lakes Statement,” a declaration of the independence of Catholic universities from “authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself.”

Over the course of just a few years following the statement, most Catholic colleges and universities in America shed their legal ties to the Church and handed their institutions over to independent boards of trustees. In the quest for secular prestige and government funding, many went so far as to remove the crucifixes from their classroom walls and to represent their Catholic identity in historical terms (such as, “in the Jesuit tradition”).

Following this horrific denial of Christ and his Church for the sake of an “unbiased” education, an unimaginable number of souls have been damaged or lost.  May those in authority of our Catholic colleges find the faith, hope, love, and courage to forsake this demonic document and return Catholic college education to its former glory.

1000 cheers for Bishop McManus for taking seriously his oversight over The College of the Holy Cross!
Academic freedom does not include a license to mock our Savior by making outrageous unfounded claims about his sexuality, especially as chair of New Testament Studies in a supposedly Catholic college. It is not the discipline of New Testament Distortions that he heads! Nor should the Bishop and the college president wink and nod as he promotes LGBT fantasies as acceptable interpretations of the Gospels.
Thank you, Bishop McManus! It’s time someone in power stands up to the systematic secularization of our historically Catholic colleges.

The problem is not a nutty professor; the problem is Holy Cross and the abdication of responsabilty by the Jesuits.