Catholic Gonzaga prohibits pro-life event with Liz Wheeler | The College Fix
Gonzaga University, a Jesuit Catholic institution, refused to allow a pro-life event by the campus Zags for Life group.
Zags for Life wanted to host Catholic pro-life speaker Liz Wheeler with assistance from Young America s Foundation, but the campus ministry office denied the request.
Grant Habersetzer, a student and board member of Gonzaga s pro-life club Zags for Life, told The College Fix that he was notified the event was canceled by an email from Director of Mission and Ministry Luke Lavin. The ministry director said he was unaware that the group was working with YAF on the event, according to an email reviewed by The Fix.
Habersetzer already had received approval from the Center for Student Involvement, which typically oversees clubs on campus. However, the campus ministry office has claimed oversight of the pro-life group.
That pesky abortion issue. Always dividing Catholics between those who are Catholic and those who are kind of . . . not. Basketball unites Catholics. Go Zags! Abortion separates the wheat from the chaff, an allusion to some other separation if memory serves. But tbf Gonzaga is a Jesuit school which in the last 50 years or so has been Catholic, but not so much. Even the beloved Holy Father, or at least his advisors, seem to be dipping their holy toes ever so tentatively into the pro-just-kill-the-little-f***ers point of view, with the recent appointment of a prominent pro-abortion person to the family life commission. So sad to watch an old institution crumble, but, as Bitcoin is supposed to do, Christianity has a way of coming back.