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U.S. bishops shun Notre Dame venue due to V-Monologues

Catholic News Agency reports this development from the USCCB and Notre Dame : A theological seminar for Catholic bishops has been relocated from the campus of the University of Notre Dame in response to the school’s planned performance of the play “The Vagina Monologues,” the South Bend Tribune reports. The seminar, a meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, includes Notre Dame faculty who act as advisors and is co-sponsored by the university’s Institute for Church Life. Instead of taking place on the Notre Dame campus, it has been moved to a convent of the Sisters of St. Francis in Mishawaka, Indiana. Seven bishops and archbishops are members of the Committee on Doctrine, while its consultants include Notre Dame theology department chair Dr. John C. Cavadini and the Archbishop of Chicago Cardinal Francis George. Read more here... One gets the feeling that a struggle is ongoing between the secular and the sublime on the same campus!

List of Catholic Colleges Peforming the V-Monologues

Catholic World News has a story today on the Cardinal Newman Society and its attempts to monitor the activities of nominally Catholic Universities . Each year at about this time, the CNS announces those colleges which intend to portray the V-Monologues on their campus. This year is no exception. The link will take you to a page which describes this play . Here are the Catholic colleges that are scheduled to portray the V-Monologues this year: Bellarmine University College of the Holy Cross College of Mount Saint Vincent College of Saint Rose DePaul University Dominican University of California Fordham University Georgetown University John Carroll University Le Moyne College Loyola Marymount University Loyola University Chicago Loyola University New Orleans Marygrove College Regis College Saint Mary’s College of California University of Detroit Mercy University of Notre Dame University of San Francisco Note that this list was updated today and the Universities ar...