The University of Notre Dame Law School, a Catholic institution, seems to be hosting a forum about decriminalizing sex work sponsored by a student LGBTQ organization.
The Notre Dame Law School LGBT Law Forum (LLF) is presenting an event titled, “Decriminalizing Sex Work,” which will will be co-hosted by a law student and sex worker nicknamed Cruel Valentine and Chicago House legal director Elizabeth Ricks, a photograph of the poster shows. The event is scheduled to be held on Oct. 24 at 12:30 p.m.
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The event would appear to run counter to the university’s Catholic faith and Vatican statements. The university centers part of its identity around its Catholic faith, describing its religious identity as a “part of everything we do on campus,” according to its website. The site describes the school’s Catholic faith as establishing the institution’s commitment to service.
“Our Catholic faith not only informs our pursuit of truth, it is part of everything we do on campus. That’s why community service isn’t just a hallmark of Notre Dame. It’s a way of life. Service to others is how we live out our faith,” the site read. “Notre Dame students bring a concern for those in need, a commitment to helping, and a desire to give more than take, to everything they do. So, whatever your passion, you’ll find a way to put it to use for the greater good.”
The university holds more than 40 Sunday masses and 160 daily masses in 57 chapels with 90 priests, according to the site. Student can attend 30 religious retreats throughout the academic year.
Pope Francis has referred to prostitution and sex work as “a disgusting vice” that reduces women to slavery, according to the National Catholic Reporter. (RELATED: University Of Notre Dame Distances From Lou Holtz’s ‘Catholics In Name Only’ Comments At RNC)
“Any form of prostitution is a reduction to slavery, a criminal act, a disgusting vice that confuses making love with venting out one’s instincts by torturing a defenseless woman,” he said in 2019. “It is a sickness of humanity, a false way of thinking in society.”
Despite the university’s dedication to its faith, there have been reported activities that contradict Catholic teaching on campus. Notre Dame professor Tamara Kay allegedly helped students obtain “Plan B” and abortion pills that end a pregnancy up to 12 weeks. Her alleged assistance would violate Indiana state law where nearly all abortion are outlawed.
Several Catholic schools, colleges and universities across the U.S. have succumbed to spreading and promoting gender ideology, pro-abortion stances, and a variety of other issues contradicting the teachings of the Catholic Church. Parents filed a lawsuit against the Academy of the Holy Names in Tampa, Florida, in August 2021 for allegedly “embracing the new, politically correct, divisive and ‘woke’ culture,” including LGBTQ issues and white guilt.
In Colorado, St. Thomas More Catholic School, a Catholic elementary and middle school, disinvited two Catholic feeder high schools from its admissions for allegedly supporting LGBTQ ideologies. One of the schools, St. Mary’s Academy, rebutted St. Thomas More’s claims in a letter stating that their support “of others’ ways of thinking, beliefs, human longings, sorrows, and joys.”