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02.16.2009 2:41 pm

Crucifixes, icons return to Boston College

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Boston College student paper The Heights ran a 2/12/09 story about the

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sudden appearance on the Jesuit campus of multiple crucifixes and icons, Crosses Meet Mixed Reacton:

Students and professors may have noticed a few changes in the Boston College atmosphere upon returning from winter recess: a fresh blanket of snow on the landscape, the removal of holiday decorations, and crucifixes hanging above chalkboards in every classroom. This University initiative with the intention of promoting Christian art throughout campus has received mixed results from both faculty and students…..

Winter recess? Does Jesuit Boston College really want us to be reminded of C. S. Lewis’s Narnia where the evil White Witch has cast a spell so that Narnia is always winter and never Christmas?

And are crucifixes merely art?

There has been much comment about the return of the crucifixes.  Various reactions have been recorded by the Boston Herald, Boston Globe,  Massachusetts’ Worcester Telegram and Massachusetts TV station WBZ.

If you’re wondering why crucifixes at a Jesuit institution are a news story, you might be interested in these two commentaries, one by G. Tracy Mehan, a St. Louis native who has written “A Miracle in Boston” for the American Spectator. A second commentary, “More Catholic than the Papist” is a darker take on all this, by Diogenes who writes for Catholic World News and Catholic World Report.

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It’s great religious art is being restored at a religious institution, but the real question is why were these removed in the first place. Why does the Church allow liberals to control our universities? Would we have laid down during the Reformation and said “you know, heretics, you’re right…we’re a bad Church.?” What happened to Jesus’ words on establishing the Church when he said “the gates of hell will not prevail against it?”

— mike
8:12 am February 17th, 2009

Has anybody looked at the so-called Catholic institution we have right here in River City, namely, St. Louis University? The Jesuits, who I remember started out Catholic many years ago, run that bastion of anti-Catholic rhetoric, too. Too many supposedly “forward-thinking academics” (read: humanist liberal zealots) have been given the reigns of our (and by “our” I mean real Catholics - you know, the ones who are faithful to God and to our Church) universities and even our high- and grade-schools. So the thing is, pick your school with care, and don’t support these so-called Catholic institutions with your tuition dollars or your child’s attendance.

— Believer in Jesus and Rome
7:18 pm February 18th, 2009

interesting. isaiah 42 8 brings out. And no one else shall i give my own glory (neither my praise to graven images.) So why do people give praise to god and jesus throw images if we have been told not to. I sure dont have crucifixes and mary statues around my house. Why can’t we all be obedient to gods word. Not on reasoning by man that some things can be ignored. My thoughts, Im I going to listin to god throw his word the bible or man telling me what things out of gods word we can ignore based on mans traditions or reasonings. solomonin proverbs pointed out for us not to lean on our own understanding but put trust in god. thats some very good advice. It might be againest the norm of what alot of religous people think. But with that known it gives me even more faith in trusting in the verse stated. the numbers wil be few of the flock. even if many think they will be part of god rightous flock

— adam
1:54 am March 2nd, 2009