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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liberal to conservative scale. Georgetown, Holy Cross, BC, and ND. Currently Georgetown and Holy Cross have non Jesuits - lay people
as their relatively new college Presidents.

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Georgetown is more liberal than many secular universities. Catholic in name only!![/quote]

Yes, they don’t appeal to the type of people who’d vote for Trump because they follow the Jesuit ideals of social justice, diversity, and service to others.

They are very Catholic, just not the RWNJ handmaiden version. 
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Nah. I know it is noble on their part, but Campus ministry is top busy being everything to everyone with multiple faiths represented. Yes there is Catholic representation, but it is watered down like any other secular institution. The service opportunities are also watered down. ND and BC have extremely robust Campus ministries with great opportunities for students to serve right in their communities, elsewhere in the US, and abroad, while Georgetown is doing great service, but only in the immediate community (mimicking what most high school students do). Georgetown's president isn't even a priest.

In a recent post about students finding faith on campus, Georgetown featured multiple faiths, including an atheist. The Catholic student talked about learning about other faiths...not so much about what it is to be Catholic. That says a lot.[/quote]

Everything you’ve described is Jesuit. Not garden variety MAGA Catholic. 
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Ha! Omg. Exactly. They opened on the premise they’d educate everyone—no matter religion, etc. My kids attended a Jesuit high school and learning about ALL religions is part of the Jesuit curriculum. You cannot be fully educated without diving deep into this.  Its history, the cause of wars, understanding, etc. My kids visited mosques, synagogues, etc . They had 4 years required in world religions, systemic theology, ethics, social justice, etc. Part of our world’s problems stem from ignorance. [/quote]

Other Catholic schools study world religions. Georgetown isn’t alone here. Nice try trying to justify its turning its back on its Catholic roots. [/quote]

I have a strong feeling you know very little about Jesuit roots. Or most things about actual Catholicism for that matter.[/quote]

More than one person responding. Yes Jesuits are incredible educators throughout history but so are other Orders- st. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican, and there are many great educators/philosophers from the Augustinians, Salesians, and de la Salle Christian Brothers, HCH also, and if you’re going to speak to great educators you have to include the many orders of nuns who have educated people around the world also.
I am very pro- Jesuit. Most boys/men in my and DH families attended Jesuit HSs. I (and most of my family) attended a Jesuit colleges. [b]But to assume they are the only great educators makes me think you know very little of the Catholic orders.[/b]

I guess Georgetown is following the Cardinal Hickey Principle (former Archbishop of Washington).

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I never assumed anything of that sort. What a weird, disconnected-from-the-discussion response.[/quote]

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