There were no social media posts from the OID this year encouraging students to participate in the event. However, the office hasn’t posted on its Facebook or Twitter accounts in about a year. CNA asked the school if they encouraged students to participate this year, but received no response.
The OID event was run by two university-sponsored student groups: SJUPride and Hawk Hill Productions. SJU Pride is a student-led group that aims to build an “accepting space for all sexual orientations and gender identities to gather and express themselves.” Hawk Hill Productions is a student-run group that plans events.
SJU Pride did not respond to CNA’s inquiry asking whether drag shows are consistent with Catholic teaching.
Founded in 1851, the Jesuit university says it guides students “on the path to seeking the greater good, living [their] purpose and finding God in all things.”
The school’s mission statement says it provides a “rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts” while preparing its students “for personal excellence, professional success and engaged citizenship.”
Donohue commented: “Understanding our body, and our sexuality, as a gift from God; how it is designed to externally manifest the beauty of the spiritual and divine life within us as either male or female, as Catholic education teaches, makes a presentation of this sort confusing to faithful Catholics.”
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