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The colleges are a place that have great power: Gal 6:7 Whatsoever a man soweth - that shall he also reap. The same goes for nations Indoctrination at Xavier March 8, 2005 Numbering among America’s oldest Catholic Universities, Xavier was also one of only 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the country. Of late, however, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based school has increasingly fallen under the sway of a different kind of faith: radical leftist politics. For evidence of this development, one need only consider Xavier’s Peace and Justice program. To judge by its mission statement, the program makes no effort to disguise the left-wing activist agenda—including a reflexive aversion to war and a palpable hostility to free-market capitalism—that underpins the Peace and Justice curriculum. "Using spiritual and intellectual resources, the programs work toward global economic justice, basic human rights, a culture of non-violence, and a more orderly and humane way of making decisions on an international level," it explains. In this, Xavier’s Peace and Justice program borrows directly from the program’s founder and co-director, Fr. Benjamin J. Urmston. It was Urmston who, in 1981, inaugurated the Peace and Justice program. A Jesuit minister, Urmston is also a devout radical. In fact, Urmston’s personal website at Xavier is a veritable windmill of leftist propaganda.
Aside from reproducing fringe conspiracy theories invoking the "Israeli lobby’s neo-conservative network," Urmston regularly rails against free market capitalism, globalization, and what he calls the American "military-industrial complex." Thundering like a Hebrew prophet, Urmston makes clear his view of the United States, stating, "We can change sinful economic and social structures." He is equally contemptuous of the idea of a nation state, asserting that "a single nation state or a group of nation states are incapable of judging fairly or acting promptly." To replace the nation, Urmston calls for an expanded United Nations.
In addition, Urmston, who has called for every country to create a "Council of Conscience," is an enthusiastic supporter of the United States Department of Peace extolled by far-left Congressman Dennis Kucinich. Urmston’s views on terrorism, meanwhile, call to mind the lunatic ravings of Ward Churchill. "What goes around, comes around," Urmston declares on his website, "A nation which inflicts violence and injustice on others cannot expect to live in peace and security within its own borders. Its victims will find some way to inflict violence and harm on it."
Urmston’s disdain for the United States is equaled only by his enthusiasm for the communist cause. It is no accident that one of the earliest programs sponsored by Xavier’s Peace and Justice program, under Urmston’s direction, was a discussion series called Comprehending Communism {a kind of rule - where Islam can easily thrive - and conquer]. The unambiguous aim of the discussions was to sell Xavier students on the proposition, then in vogue among the pro-communist Left, that anti-communism was far more pernicious than communism itself. {where the strong can wipe out a whole race or a society who doesn't agree with their rules - such as 'the holocaust'] At one such discussion, as Urmston recounts on the Peace and Justice website, Dr. John Fairfield, a history professor at Xavier, "stated that the US fought Communism with all the ferocity of Stalin's totalitarianism, that the thought control of anti-communism was often as oppressive as what it said it was fighting." Urmston remained an eager celebrant of communist revolution in Central America throughout the 1908s, taking "study trips" to "worker cooperatives" in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba.
Even today, Urmston remains committed to the Cuban revolution. While he concedes that "Cuba is not heaven," Urmston holds the United States accountable for the fact "that Cuba does not handle dissent well." The blame for Cuba’s intolerance of dissent, as Urmston sees it, properly rests with the U.S. antagonism toward the Castro dictatorship, which has produced a "bunker mentality" within the Cuban regime. Urmston’s radicalism is reflected in the classes offered through the Peace and Justice program. For instance, a class entitled Challenge of Peace in the Contemporary World, taught by one Dr. John Sniegocki, frames "peace" within the context of leftist politics, wherein it is "understood holistically as social justice, ecological sustainability as well as absence of violent conflict." In accord with the radical pseudo-Gospel that globalization is the leading cause of international poverty, the course also surveys the "impacts of economic globalization on social conflict." { Poverty does not create murderers - teachings do] The books selected by Dr. Sniegocki are clearly intended to reinforce these views. Among them are Tinderbox: US Foreign Policy and Roots of Terrorism, by radical San Francisco professor Stephen Zunes, which explains anti-American terrorism as a logical consequence of American foreign policy toward the Middle East; Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History, by antiwar activist Elise Boulding on capitalism and corporations; and The Essential Gandhi. The name Israel came from God - not man. The same God condemned Palestine - beginning with Moses and Isaiah - and ending with Jesus Islam has NO Spiritual support whatsoever for the name Palestine. [their Koran forgot to mention it] Gandhi is also required reading for another Peace Studies class, called "Prophets and Non-Violence." The purpose of the class is to introduce students to such "prophets" as the Catholic socialist activist Dorothy Day, and examine the "spiritual foundation of non-violence." If they don't speak according to The Word - then they're not Christians - no matter how much they claim to be Similarly, the express theme of another class, "Theology 310," is that "Conflict resolution is not about winning a battle." Against this background, it should come as no surprise that several stridently antiwar books are now staples of Xavier’s Peace Studies program, including The Power of Non-Violence: Writings by Advocates for Peace, a collection of anti-war polemics compiled by far-Left "historian" Howard Zinn; and the Norton Book of Modern War, by longtime antiwar activist Paul Fussell.
As with the classes, so with the professors. The Peace Studies Committee, comprising Xavier professors who oversee the Peace and Justice program, is a nest of faculty radicals. Dr. Paul Knitter, a professor of theology at Xavier, is an apostle of so-called Liberation Theology, a fusion of Marxist ideology and revolutionary fervor repeatedly attacked by Pope {means 'papa' in Italian. Call no man upon the earth your 'Father' - John Paul II, and an apostle of eco-theology, which combines environmentalist activism with religious teaching. Another member of the committee, humanities professor Richard Gruber, is a perennial presence at the Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference. Most recently, he has used the occasion of the conference to deliver two anti-American lectures. One was called "Stop the Merchants of Death;" another "Dismantle the Empire." An analogous argument was advanced by the Rev. {There is only One Reverend - and He is in heaven] Kenneth Overberg, an advisor for undergraduate students at Xavier, who in the wake of the September 11 attacks ascribed the blame for terrorism to the United States and Israel, insisting that it was up to America to "end the root causes of violence" and "pressure Israel" to make a deal with the Palestinians. Then there is Mary Schoen. An associate director of the Peace and Justice programs at Xavier and a member of radical leftist group Voices in the Wilderness, Schoen in 2003 traveled to Iraq to declare against the country’s U.S.-led liberation.
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