Do gay students go to franciscan university of steubenville
Catholic college course scrutinized for calling homosexuality deviant
Three weeks ago, an alumnus of Franciscan University of Steubenville was researching online a rape that had occurred years ago near the campus.
One of the find results upset the alum: A social work course on deviant behavior offered by the Catholic university that lumped together “murder, rape, robbery, prostitution, homosexuality, mental illness and drug use.”
The alum, a member of a Facebook collective for gay graduates of Franciscan University, posted the course description, and members of the group contacted the sole accrediting agency for social work knowledge to examine the university’s program.
"The fact that homosexuality was identified in the course description as a deviant behavior raises a flag," Stephen Holloway, director of the accrediting agency, Council on Social Labor Education, told National General Radio.
The group, meanwhile, has asked that “homosexuality” and “mental illness” be removed from the description.
Mental illness is not a deviant behavior but a condition, noted Elizabeth Vermilyea, a psychology professional who founded the Facebook group, and homosexuality was removed from th
Franciscan University Debuts Ministry for Students Struggling With Gay Attraction
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Two recent graduates of Franciscan University of Steubenville are pioneering a dynamic apostolate for Catholic students who life same-sex attraction and/or gender dysphoria.
Called Integratis, the endeavor debuted as an officially recognized ministry of Franciscan University this academic year, but it began three years ago, when Brittany Bain and Manny Gonzalez founded Integratis in hopes of providing community for fellow Franciscan students experiencing same-sex attraction and living in agreement with the Church’s teachings regarding homosexuality and chastity.
Bain and Gonzalez spent two years developing the structure and programming of Integratis in partnership with the university before its launch as a public apostolate. Since then, the Integratis community has more than doubled in size, and it now includes 20 current students.
The mission statement clarified that Integratis “is not a ‘support group,’ a ‘student club,’ or an ‘advocacy group’ that might be establish at other colleges and universities,” and the ministry “rejects the current cultural LGBTQ+ defini
Households are Spirit empowered, Christ-led groups of three or more Franciscan University students of the matching sex who look for to do the will of the Father in their lives.
These communities are formed to assist members grow in mind, body, and spirit through prayer, mutual support, and accountability in the ongoing conversion process exemplified in the life of St. Francis. Through the relationships found in Households, individuals are transformed and grow their capacity to be an evangelizing presence in the University, the Catholic Church and the world.
Members of households are often on the field, studying or at Mass together, sharing aspects of their lives, and encouraging one another. Many common members agree that being part of a household is very similar to being part of a family–a “home away from home.”
A household’s foundation is a written pledge that expresses the common commitment and spiritual identity of the household. The members of a household refer to this pledge as their household covenant. Each household is required to contain an advisor who is a mature presence to the household. The advisor encourages the domestic to participate fully in the existence of the
Franciscan University defends deviance course against critics
Steubenville, Ohio, Sep 12, 2012 / 01:02 am
A Franciscan University of Steubenville course description that lists homosexuality as deviant behavior has drawn critical attention from the only social work accreditation council in the U.S.
Franciscan University said its "Deviant Behavior" social function class – which takes its description from a standard public university textbook – is intended to "help students learn how to better serve and assist future clients."
The course has drawn unfriendly media attention after members of an unofficial Facebook group of gay and lesbian alumni asked the school to change the course description.
Currently, the class description reads: "The behaviors that are primarily examined are murder, rape, robbery, prostitution, homosexuality, mental illness and drug use."
Gregory Gronbacher, a 1990 graduate of Franciscan University who is a member of the group, told National Public Radio he thinks that the course description puts gay students "in the same category as murderers."
He told NBC News he thinks the school's administrators "mean well" but "live within a bubble."
"If you live
LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian colleges
As monks chanted evening prayers in the dimly lit Saint John’s University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were gathering in a dedicated, Event flag-lined lounge at the institution’s sister Benedictine college, a few miles away across Minnesota farmland.
To Sean Fisher, a senior who identifies as nonbinary and helps lead QPLUS, its official recognition and funding by Saint John’s and the College of Saint Benedict is welcome proof of the Catholic schools’ “acknowledging queer students exist.”
But tensions endure here and at many of the hundreds of U.S. Catholic and Protestant universities. The Christian teachings they ascribe to are different from wider societal values over gender identity and sexual orientation, because they assert that God created humans in unchangeable male and female identities, and sex should only happen within the marriage of a man and a woman.
“The ambivalence toward genuine protect is clouded by Jesus-y attitudes. Like ‘Love your neighbor’ has an asterisk,” Fisher said that belated fall evening.
Most of the 200 Catholic institutions serving nearly 900,000 students own made e