Well put…from Exile Street:
This is not a discussion of censoring works of art like VM. They are easily available to any who wish to view them. It is the failure of Notre Dame to become a place where such sin is not celebrated. Can’t there be one “last homely home,” one last Rivendell, where an alternative culture can exist?
Must one allow sin, blasphemy and the celebration of the unholy, to live the examined life? Aquinas did not think so. Socrates did not either. What does the President of Notre Dame know that they did not?
Once a mind has been debased, Sacred Scriptures and the Holy Fathers make it clear that purity is difficult to regain. What academic merit would justify such a thing?
The notion that having one token Catholic to respond on a “panel” to a forceful dramatic presentation is so weak and impotent as to merit pity or laughter more than anger. It is as if the owner of a home felt honored that he was allowed one seat at his own dinner table, dominated by barbarians.
The sheep have invited the wolves to dinner, but a shepherd will comment after the meal.
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What a load of rubbish. As if you could expect the university — any university — to completely insulate its students from the outside world. Hothouse flowers don’t last outside for long. The university’s response is far superior to raising the drawbridge, which would accomplish nothing.
My husband, an ND grad wrote the following open letter to Fr. Jenkins regarding V-Monologues. I thought I’d pass it along to your readers and I’m happy to have found your blog.
http://www.fightingirishthomas.net/2008/02/vagina-monologues-st-valentines-day.html