Catholic college bans speaker from discussing Catholic mores.

“Used to be Catholic” is more accurate.

According to Campus Reform, Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire,

In the spring 2022 semester, College Republicans at the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic institution attempted to invite The Daily Wire host, a practicing Catholic, to speak. The university denied the request due to Knowles’ past statements related to past comments expressing socially conservative opinions.

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Emails obtained by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) reveal that the university cited Knowles’ previous comments on transgender ideology when they rejected the request. 

Knowles himself put it succinctly. “My disinvitation from the University of St. Thomas is particularly ironic because I was disinvited specifically for espousing Catholic views.”

Truly Catholics colleges and universities in this country are remarkably few. Most of the putatively Catholic educational powerhouses are indistinguishable from their secular equivalents; they have gone to the devil.

Newsmax has put together a helpful list of ten traditional Catholic colleges. Their names are copied below, with links, but one should go to the article in Newsmax to read the capsule descriptions of them.

If any readers know of other traditional Catholic colleges or universities, kindly inform your Tatler of them and they will be added to the list.

Note: This list from Newsmax is seven years old, aeons in Internet time. Some the links, and in one case, the name of the college, have changed, which your Tatler has tried to emend (readers’s corrections are welcome). Also, in the intervening seven years, the missions of some of these institutions may have veered off the narrow way (Matthew 7: 14). A quick glance at an institutions’s website should betray any wanderings.. Helpful hint: do a search for these three words: “diversity,” inclusivity,” and “equity.” If they pop up, close that window pronto and click on the next link.

1. Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio.

2. Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia.

3. Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. (Warning: Bickerstaff has heard rumors CUA is getting soft. If readers have any knowledge of that, please post it in the comments.)

4. The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, Merrimack, New Hampshire.

5. Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California.

6. Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, formerly Northeast Catholic College.

7. Wyoming Catholic College, Lander, Wyoming. (This is Bickerstaff’s favorite and one to which he is a donor. Not only is WCC’s curriculum absolutely sound, they also offer extra-curriculars unlike like any others.)

8. John Paul the Great Catholic University, Escondido, California.

9. Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas.

10. Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida.