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Over the course of the next several weeks, I intend to lift up every weekday a different person of authority and intelligence who has confronted the question of the Vagina Monologues at a Catholic university and concluded they are inappropriate.

We begin today with the Most Reverend Alfred Hughes, Archbishop of New Orleans.

CNS reports:

In his statement issued Wednesday, Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans said the decision by Loyola president Rev. Kevin Wildes, S.J., to allow the play on campus–it was halted last year by interim president Rev. William Byron, S.J.–is “disappointing.” Hughes said the play is “contrary to sound Catholic teaching and does not advance the important questions about women, human sexuality, violence against women and the common good.”

And in another report:

On Wednesday, Archbishop Alfred Hughes admonished Wildes for allowing the production to be performed on campus. In an interview with WWL-TV, Hughes called the play “contrary to Catholic teaching” and stated that Wildes’ decision to allow it on campus was regrettable.
“I would be unfaithful to my charges as archbishop if I did not state publicly that ‘The Vagina Monologues’ is offensive to sound Catholic teaching,” Hughes said.

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