The University of Detroit Mercy dubs itself as a Catholic University in the Jesuit tradtion. As we know, "Jesuit tradition" has taken on unfavorable connotations - most of them well-deserved. Such is the case with this school.
Jane Schaberg is a Professor of Religious Studies at this institution. She has also been a guest editor for the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and is considered to be a "Women's Issues Expert". She once gave a lecture with the intriguing title "Mysticism and Eros in Magdalene Traditions". Doesn't that just sound like it's chock-full of sound, useful doctrine? However, there's more.
She wrote a book called "The Illegitimacy of Jesus: A Feminist Theological Interpretation of the Infancy Narratives". I found some excerpts of this book so that you can get a flavor without actually patronizing this trash. I do mean trash. You can read the entire excerpt, but here's a snippet. "I agree that the doctrine of virginal conception is a distortion and a mask, but I think behind it lies the illegitimacy tradition. Unmasked, that tradition presents us with fuller realities and therefore with deeper theological potential. it presents us not with a Goddess, but with a woman in need of a Goddess, with a woman we look at, not up at. On the one hand, Catholic attitudes toward Mary can e expected to change once they no longer have to bear the burden of the repressed feminine dimension of the devine." Like I said, it's trash.
Gloria H. Albrecht, another UDM professor of "women's studies", produced her own plop of heresy. She contributed (using the word lightly) a piece entitled "Contraception and Abortion Within Protestant Christianity" to a collection of essays edited by Daniel McGuire called "Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions". Albrecht's article is found via google books; take a peek.
I don't cease to be amazed how these dissidents are hired at Catholic institutions. Perhaps, though, these universities have long since ceased to be truly Catholic.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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I went to UDM for a masters; wanted to support my dead father's alma mater. It was a public university at twice the cost. Most professors seemed anti-catholic to me. The lesson: save your money. Funny thing: I declined to give the dean my address because he couldn't personally promise me I wouldn't receive alumni mail from it. Somehow, about 4-5 years later I received my diploma (they didn't have the address!). Now my mother gets alumni mail. Wish I never got that diploma.
ReplyDeleteSr. Margaret Farley, RSM is an avowed pro-abortion nun named so by the Vatican itself.
ReplyDeleteSr. Farley is a Board Member at the University of Detroit Mercy.
When Dr. Gloria Albrect (pro-abortion), was Head of the Theology Dept., 60% of the Religion Instructors were Protestant.
The Archdiocese of Detroit can cease to offer the Jesuits and the Mercy nuns its continued permission to corrupt souls with one signature.
Can and will are different.
Eileen Therese
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