Comments on: NPR Joins Biased Campaign Against Franciscan University

By: AZPAZ

AZPAZ — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:51:00 +0000

This is what happens when a lawsuit is filed against the Obama administration. First the City of Steubenville was attacked for their welcoming sign, and now this. We’ve seen it before, the manufactured war on women, Sheriff Joe in AZ, and I am sure there are many more examples to be found. This administration and its troops operate like Chicago thug lawyers.

By: Michelle Marie Allen

Michelle Marie Allen — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:32:00 +0000

To be a true faithful Catholic is not an easy road when one follows the teachings of the Magisterium. As harsh as it may sound, homosexuals are called to chastity within the Catholic Church. What you are asking for is acceptance by Mother Church and to prove that she still loves and values( you are still both in HER eyes) you by changing Her teachings for the Catholic LGBT community regarding the nature of homosexuality and its proclivity to lead to sin by engaging in homosexual activity. This will never happen Mick so perhaps it is by your acceptance of this fact that your soul may reach a conclusion that you can personally live with. Lifelong chastity is a very hard cross to bear.
I would recommend that you read Mr. Steve Gershom’s article, “The Truth Same Sex Attraction”. You can find it here on Catholic Exchange in the category “SSA” in the index of subjects. He also identifies with being gay and Catholic. Maybe his words can help you.
God Bless you always

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:01:00 +0000

As a child I felt proud of my Catholic heritage. That’s who my family was through and through. By the time I reached high school, my counselors felt I was a good candidate for priesthood and I thought so too. My dad was enormously proud when I went to seminary. After about two years I realized that I was gay. It was part of me just as much as being Catholic. On several occasions this became a point of conflict with my instructors. They expected me to support the Church, yet they were unwilling to support who I was. So, in response to AnnaMarie and the others; I entered seminary without realizing I was gay as have many others in the past. There are thousands, hundreds of of thousands of people like myself who attend non-secular schools and half-way through the program realize that their principles are at odds with the those of the school’s. And yet these people choose not to try and file lawsuits. For all of us, except for the handful who do file lawsuits, It’s too complicated and we’re not vindictive. What I would like, as I imagine the thousands of other gay Catholics would too, is to be respected as a person.

By: JTLiuzza

JTLiuzza — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:09:00 +0000

NPR can blather on all they want. That’s what they do. The real travesty here is that NPR continues to receive federal funding. Why is the federal government, which is broke, in the radio business?

By: nah

nah — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:00 +0000

Scandalize and shame the moral torchbearer, it’s a tired and transparent tactic that is meant to distract intellectual discovery of truth, and impose silence by financial terror. Basically, it’s all the evil one has to make us become his mindless sheep. God wants souls to carry crosses to glory, not money to pay for curtains to hide them. What is more important, material wealth and wordly reputation or eternal life?

By: neiders

neiders — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:19:00 +0000

No surprise here, but not too much to really worry about- no one listens to NPR except those who are already hate the Catholic Church and schools like Franciscan anyway.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:49:00 +0000

AnnaMarie, I feel proud of you! You put it very well! May God continue to bless you in what you do and remember “the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.” Thanks again for your comment.

By: Michelle Marie Allen

Michelle Marie Allen — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:47:00 +0000

Also I beleive financial incentives have a lot to do with these “complaints”…afterall…why did they wait over 10 years to have a “LBGTconscience” regarding this particular class ?

By: JMC

JMC — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:41:00 +0000

Well said, Anna! There is no doubt that their only reason for going to a school which is going to “offend” them is purely to make trouble. And yet there are those who would have you believe that modern atheism is “not a threat” to Catholicism. Puh-LEEZE! Pull the other one! ;D

By: AnnaMarie53

AnnaMarie53 — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:29:00 +0000

I have two questions: 1) Why is it that it always seems to be that any of the suits against God through colleges, public fixtures, etc. always seems to come from just ONE person (usually gay, lesbian, or atheist), or at the most, TWO, and everybody runs away in terror, fearing lawsuits galore. So what? 2) Why do people who are so inclined, choose to go to such schools of higher learning, or whatever the fracas is about when it is CLEARLY marked in the name, such as the FRANCISCAN University of Steubenville, that the institution is NOT secular? The only answer I can come up with is that the point all along was to make trouble and hopefully bankrupt the institution with lawsuits in yet another attack upon God! Which begs the question, if don’t believe in God, why not just ignore whatever? When there is a TV station, magazine, or radio program that I do not care for, I use that good old American invention: the off switch, or the change channel switch…and POOF! problem solved.
So why don’t more of these sorts avail themselves of this, rather than making all sorts of pointless trouble? They MUST have found some way of making big money off this Ponzi game!
Oh, and don’t bother telling me they felt “honor bound.” If they had any honor in the first place, they would not bother with feeling “bound.”