Higher Education Archives - Page 16 of 26

Theologian’s Writing on Queer Jesus Are “Highly Offensive and Blasphemous,” Says Bishop

April 9, 2018/6 Comments/in Hierarchy, Higher Education, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A bishop has described a theologian's decade-old, LGBT-informed writings on the New Testament as "highly offensive and blasphemous," igniting a controversy that has made sensational headlines but with little basis. Read More

Georgetown University Accused of Moving Funds from Anti-Equality Group to LGBTQ Group

February 9, 2018/1 Comment/in Higher Education, Marriage & Family /by Lizzie Sextro

Georgetown University is facing investigations regarding redirection of funding from an explicitly pro-family student group to pro-LGBTQ organizations. Read More

Newman University Cancels LGBTQ Art Show, Bars Rainbow Imagery in Student Video

January 23, 2018/10 Comments/in Higher Education, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Newman University has curtailed LGBT inclusion on campus this academic year, most recently cancelling an LGBT art exhibition and last fall barring students from including rainbow imagery in a student video. Read More

After Initial Rejection, Georgetown University Opens LGBT Residential Community

January 18, 2018/3 Comments/in Higher Education, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Students at Georgetown University looking to explore gender and sexuality will now be able to do so in a new residential community, reported campus newspaper The Hoya. Read More

Is the University of Notre Dame Failing LGBTQ Students?

December 16, 2017/4 Comments/in Higher Education, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Five years ago, the University of Notre Dame released "Beloved Friends and Allies," a pastoral plan aimed at making the campus more inclusive and providing support to LGBTQ students. But one student has now written that efforts to promote diversity are not enough and that the University is failing its LGBTQ students. Read More

QUOTE TO NOTE: Less Pomp, More Humility Can Help Clerics Understand LGBT Issues

December 15, 2017/3 Comments/in Higher Education /by Francis DeBernardo, Editor

An Australian bishop calls on priests to eliminate clericalism in their lives and ministry. Such a development could greatly benefit the Church's relationship with the LGBT community. Read More

On LGBT Issues, Does Catholic Education Have to Choose Between Church and Culture?

December 12, 2017/4 Comments/in Higher Education, Schools & Youth, Theology & Church Teaching, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Is Catholic higher education in the U.S. being forced to choose between church and culture on matters of gender and sexuality? Patricia Miller, a contributor for Religion Dispatches, leans towards yes. I'm not so sure. Read More

Against Right-Wing Pressure, Catholic Bishop and College Stand by Fr. James Martin

November 27, 2017/5 Comments/in Higher Education, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Catholic college and Pennsylvania bishop are the latest public supporters of Fr. James Martin, SJ, after they refused to concede to right-wing activists who wanted the priest disinvited from a scheduled speaking appearance. Read More

Georgetown Students Vote to Preserve LGBT-Negative Group’s Funding

November 6, 2017/1 Comment/in Higher Education /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A student group at Georgetown University which promotes anti-LGBT views will retain its funding after facing student complaints. Read More

Georgetown Students Organize Against Campus Anti-Equality Group

October 25, 2017/3 Comments/in Higher Education, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Students at Georgetown University have begun organizing against an anti-LGBT campus group, which critics claim is intolerant and therefore should not receive University support. But censoring opposing voices is not the way for Catholic higher education to move forward. Here is the right way. . . Read More