Students at one of the most popular Catholic universities in the U.S. are protesting a drag event sanctioned by the school administration.

The University of Notre Dame, one of the most well-known Catholic colleges in the country, is hosting and sponsoring a drag queen symposium on November 3 as part of a one-credit course titled “What a Drag: Drag on Screen — Variations and Meanings.”

Students who are upset with the event’s contradiction to Catholic morality are pushing Vice President of Student Affairs Fr. ​​Gerry Olinger to rescind the religious university’s participation in hosting the event.

“In the weeks following the completion of the regilding of the dome and Our Lady, promotional posters appeared throughout campus advertising a drag show on Nov. 3,” students wrote in an editorial for a student publication. “Months were spent regilding Notre Dame’s Virgin Mary statue, accentuating the beauty and truth of her feminine form in imago dei — a feminine form that is warped and mocked in the burlesque-styled form of entertainment that is drag.”

[It’s nice when STUDENTS at a university remembers its roots. ~ Beege]