A Faculty Response to “The Gateway/Gayway Times Debacle, Fully Explained”
The recent UNews article reporting the deplorable social media attacks on LGBT people at SLU included inaccurate and disparaging remarks about SLU’s Catholic Studies Centre. As we all know, SLU’s mission statement insists that all activities on this campus are to be motivated by the inspiration and values of the Judeo-Christian tradition, guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the Society of Jesus. In accordance with that mission, the Catholic Studies Centre works to promote understanding of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition as it has developed over centuries in interaction with the other major monotheisms and the great cultures of the world. At the heart of that Tradition is the conviction that there is no human excellence without charity and that the only proper response to another human person is love without qualification or exception. What the Centre teaches about the Catholic Intellectual Tradition it also means to exemplify. The Centre is thus committed to the dignity and worth of every human person, and no faculty, staff or student will tolerate anyone’s being treated with hate or disrespect.
The Academic Board of the Catholic Studies Board,
Fr. David Meconi, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Director of the Catholic Studies Centre
Asst. Professor of Theological Studies
Dr. Eleonore Stump, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Robert J Henle Endowed Chair in Philosophy
Dr. Donald Stump, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Fr. Matthew Baugh, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon.), J.D.
Jesuit Fellow in Catholic Studies
Dr Jason T. Eberl, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Care Ethics
Director, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics
Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Theological Studies
Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics
Dr. Cynthia Stollhans, Ph.D.
Professor of Art History
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Dr. Scott Ragland, Ph.D.
Chair and Professor of Philosophy
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Helen Ratcliff • Feb 17, 2023 at 12:45 pm
How was the original article false with its claims towards the Catholic Studies Center? They have promoted brochures that call for conversion therapy and blame the AIDS epidemic on ‘God’s hate towards the LGBT community’ and have hired a conversion therapist to talk on campus before. It is a fact that most queer people on campus do not feel comfortable around the Catholic Studies Center, and that they have been at the forefront of pushing SLU’s conservative ideology for a long time.