University of Detroit Mercy - "Catholyc" in the Disgusting Pattern of Notre Dame

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.