Thirty Pieces of Silver: Catholic Universities That Go Woke

Fordham, Notre Dame and Georgetown are just a few fatalities.

January 12, 2024 by Thom Nickels Leave a Comment

The Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York has a rich literary history.  Edgar Allan Poe spent time at Fordham when it was known as St. John’s College. He was living in a cottage, the guest of Reverend Edward Doucet, SJ, who allowed him unlimited use of the college library.  Poe thoroughly enjoyed the Jesuits and once said that they were

“highly cultivated gentlemen and scholars, they smoked and they drank and they played cards, and they never said a word about religion.”

The Jesuits in Poe’s time, while not the radical (and often heretical) usurpers of traditional Catholicism that we’ve come to know today, still had something of an edge in the 1840’s, the time that Poe got to know them..........To Read More....