Saint Mary’s College’s President and Trustees Should Resign

A breach of trust of a different sort has taken place at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. And the damage it’s caused at the all-women Catholic school, located next door to the University of Notre Dame, is so serious and irreparable that the consequences ought to be just as severe: President Katie Conboy should resign, along with the entire board of trustees.

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In November, it came to light that Conboy and the trustees last summer had quietly agreed to open undergraduate admissions to applicants “whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women” beginning next fall. ...

To be sure, it’s no easy job to run a college these days. But the mission of Catholic institutions like Saint Mary’s is really rather simple — and ought to be crystal clear to those in charge. It’s to seek, teach, promote, treasure and defend the truth.

Ed Morrissey

Conboy reversed the decision under pressure from the local bishop and from alumni that threatened to cut off funding. However, Conboy has opened an "LGBTQ+ center" and hired a gender-ideology activist priest to run it as part of its diversity approach. Catholicism's universality is diversity in the proper sense, not pandering to wokeism and identitarianism. 

If St. Mary's wanted to admit men, then Conboy should have made the campus co-ed. That's certainly compatible with Catholicism. If Conboy wants to pander to sexual secularism, she should find a secular college to run. 

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