Gonzaga or Seattle U, for better or worse.

There are all kinds of snide comments that could have been put in between the lines here. It's hard to imagine that the Pope's stormtroopers could have founded institutions that were as Catholic as these, but we're hoping for a counter-revolution to take all of the "responsible" academics who run these "Catholic" institutions out from behind desks and put them in a hot field on a sunny day, being watched suspiciously by 16 year olds with Kalishnivoks.

We spoke recently to a man whose daughter returned home from such an institution, and after 4 years the pretty flower no longer believed in God and had a boyfriend with more heavy metal in his face than a nuclear reactor.

The Jesuits "keep cranking out the hits" as Mark Shea once put it on his "Catholic and Enjoying it" blog, however, and you can even vote on a poll. Please vote in the poll. We did, several times. It was like the last election.

In related news, we still haven't heard or received anything about Cormac Brissett, a very talented writer and journalist currently in the Jesuit Novitiate.

That this is the case isn't at all surprising, we've just been informed, perhaps you already know, that Jesuit run Georgetown University has its own GLBT Department. We can't imagine that St. Ignatius ever thought he'd see that at one of his Universities, but there it is.

Comparing two Catholic colleges: Gonzaga and Seattle U

By Seamus McKeon

Share this article Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2009

What do you think of Seattle U's Catholic nature? [We're tired of people who ought to know better telling us things that aren't true. Aren't you?]

Be it location, athletics or campus culture, the differences and similarities between Gonzaga University and Seattle U are common knowledge for students and collegiate professionals alike. However, one of the most defining contrasts between the Northwest’s two Jesuit Catholic institutions is just that—Catholicism. [Really?]

While both schools maintain a strong reputation as Jesuit Catholic [Sic] universities, the expression and focus of the faith at the two institutions take somewhat different routes, both in the administrative approach to this fundamental characteristic and the culture that surrounds it.

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