A professor scheduled to teach core-level sociology courses next semester at the College of Mount Saint Vincent continued last month to blog at the radical pro-abortion website for RH Reality Check. In a recent post, she promotes a poem that attacks the “Women Deserve Better” campaign sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-life Activities.
Bianca Laureano, who has reminded her readers on more than one occasion that she teaches at a Catholic college, has over the last several months posted to her blog on a wide range of topics directly opposed to Catholic moral teachings.
Last March, The Cardinal Newman Society discovered a post by Laureano in which she said she believes that the “educational value” of an after-class presentation of a sex act at Northwestern University “helps to make clear that sex work is work.”
We reported in April on two more troubling posts by Laureano regarding a presentation she gave on “Latina Sexualities,” which incorporated artwork that portrays the Virgin Mary pornographically (warning: there is very offensive material in her post), and another workshop she was preparing to give to students at Jesuit Saint Peter’s College.
In her most recent post (warning: profanity) from June, titled “What Women Deserve”, Laureano embedded a YouTube video of a pro-abortion rights poem by Sonya Renee Taylor blasting the “Women Deserve Better” campaign sponsored by the USCCB Secretariat for Pro-life Activities and the Knights of Columbus.
Laureano writes of the poem:
I also share this because it is important to know that if there is artwork/images/media that we value, and wish to use/support and include in conferences, classrooms or organizations, the creators are approachable! …
I hope you enjoy this piece by Sonya as much as I do and can find ways to use it and her other poems in the work you are doing
According to the Fall 2011 College of Mount Saint Vincent course schedule, Laureano is slated to teach two core courses in sociology. This Summer, Laureano taught classes on women and human sexuality.
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Sadly in cases of such stringent pro abortion and “free love”, women are sometimes guilty of these very harmful choices themselves. Often these women are mimicking the silent screams of their own unborn or other horrific choices. They set themselves against the very thing their consciences can’t reconcile. They are merciless in their attacks against the truth which will set them free. Such frenzied women are to be pitied & prayed for, so they are freed from that which torments them relentlessly. They are in the grip of a malicious spirit rather than the Holy Spirit.
Wow that is very introspective and beautifully put. We do need to pray for her and for others in our Church and OUR SCHOOLS who need prayer and are confusing the pliable minds of our youth. We especially need to pray and make phone calls and send letters to the university presidents who should reconsider hiring educators who will harm rather than promote OUR CATHOLIC FAITH in CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS!
I pray our Catholic Church will stand up and draw the line in the sand on many issues. I do love our Lord and respect his gentle but firm ways. Are we courageous enough to let our voices be heard in a firm but loving way?
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus,
As you know, words are cheap and often ignored in our day even when the spiritual advice might help a poor confused soul. Inside I want to ask such questions as “Why is this woman allowed to teach in Catholic college? or “How have we drifted so far from our Faith to allow such persons to continue to form our ‘Catholics?” Even as I write this comment, I realize that prayer is of greater value since talk seems to do nothing without the grace of Our Triune God. ‘If I speak with Love to my neighbor – friend or enemy with the Love of God I glorify Him’. However if I speak as I would wish in a righteous manner, then I do not show Love or respect for those who separate themselves from the Church. I do understand the frustration and need to combat ‘evil’ in the media (even Catholic media). I pray for my brothers and sisters who are more articulate and persuasive than myself. However, because I am sinner and have written too many scathing comments on those who say ‘I am Catholic’ yet betray their Faith, I realize that my words are nothing – only God can change the hardness of our heart. So I will continue to pray for those who separate themselves from Our Lord and His Church – not just the laity nor the ministers of Our Lord’s Church but in particular those who are abusing the Faith without understanding the spiritual consequences. A very wise man once told me that one cannot see what God already knows nor presume that we, of ourselves, can change anyone without the grace of the Holy Spirit (Who speaks through us).
Tom
May God Bless and Keep us in His Loving Arms
Still allowed to teach at a Catholic College after all this? And the College is aware of her comments and feelings that run agaist all the teachings of Jesus and the Church?
This is not my idea of a Catholic institution. It does not deserve to bear the name Catholic in it’s heading. Why has not the Bishop/Archbishop stopped this? Surely they have some power over ‘Catholic’ in their Diocese.
Maybe I’m the one missing the point. If so, someone please explain it to me.
It is a shame that someone of her obviously heterodox convictions was chosen to lead others to the Truth. It reflects a sad state of affairs for Catholic education in the US.
It would be great if you could post the e-mail address of the president of the College of Mount Saint Vincent. At the very least he could be made aware that Catholics and other Christians know what is going on at his school. Thank you!
Fire her. Also discontinue this major. Sociology is not a course of study. It is for the most part an ideology. I have never met a sociology professor who had a balanced view of the world. They all seem to be radical leftists with a narrow agenda.
I hope your blog is read by the Vatican on a regular basis! If not, please find someone there who will do so. Thanks
I don’t understand why someone like her is even hired. Has anyone looked at the video. They say don’t judge a book by its cover but it hard not to judge such an ugly cover like hers.
What is being done about this woman. Is the college not firing her?
Anyone who would be featured on RHRealityCheck.org should be suspect. That site is notoriously biased, to the point that they now make that pretty clear right in their user agreement (a change they made soon after I started posting comments on that site last year).
why are non-believers allowed to teach at catholic institutions ? this is how & why catholic colleges might lose their religious status. to hold any position at a catholic institution you must follow the faith. or else you are not a catholic institution.
I am mindful of our obligation to love and forebear such men and women as Bianca Laureano. I am more mindful of our obligation to care for the young souls of those Ms. Laureano would corrupt. Why is she still allowed to teach?
The College of Mount St Vincent was founded by the Sisters of Charity of NY, the order founded by St Elizabeth Ann Seton. On the website, the college asserts:
“Today, the College of Mount Saint Vincent continues to uphold the mission entrusted to it by the Sisters of Charity. Inspired by the spirit of Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, deeply rooted in the Catholic tradition, and authentically ecumenical, the College prepares students for lives of professional accomplishment and service.”
Hardly.
I have two suggestions. First, pray for the intercession of St Elizabeth Ann Seton to the Holy Spirit to change the heart of the administration and faculty of this college. Secondly, educate President Flynn on the life of Elizabeth Ann Seton, and how continued employment of such instructors, and promotion of such propaganda, denigrates her life, her mission, and her memory.
This is one of the reasons the Church is i the position it is today. Our students have been indoctrinated like this for the last half century. We are now in 2nd and 3rd generations. The Church
must fight back.
I am totally devastated reading this information about this professor regarding Our Blessed Mother. Shocking. I cannot believe it. How is this possible? I do not believe this instructor should be putting this idiotic information in the minds of beloved students.
If you can’t dismiss her,why not change her teaching duties and and put her in charge of gym class, where actions speak louder than words. How did this person ever get hired by a Catholic institution to teach sociology? Catholic institutions should institute better screening polocies.
As a non practicing Catholic it is still hard to understand how this is possible for her to be pro abortion and teach at a Catholic school. To clarify I do not receive communion b/c after much prayer and discussion with a priest I can not receive because I am unsettled with some beliefs and teachings of the church but still identify with being Catholic more then any other Christian faith. It is always the first issue I vote on regardless of their fiscal or other conservative nature. Being adopted and born after Roe v Wade this is a big deal to me. It should be only CATHOLIC teachers and subjects at a Catholic school. If I recall correctly though math hasn’t always aligned with the catholic church teaching so maybe there is a little leeway. But this is so not one of them! Socialogy is a study of society. Not faith.
The fox is in the henhouse and being paid to stay and continue with vitriolic damage to the Holy Roman Catholic church? This defies credible logic-where are the Bishops ?????!
I for one, think she needs removed from any chance of teaching at a Catholic school.
Apparently, this individual was not properly nor thoroughly vetted prior to her hiring. Did ANYONE checked into her background? Did ANYONE call ANY of the references she gave in her job application? I think the University has been remiss in its responsibilities to the students, parents, and other staff members by allowing someone who is so completely anti-Catholic to remain on staff. It looks like the lights are on but no one is at the office in the HR department!
It doesn’t make sense that she hasn’t been let go of from her job over this. Can someone provide details as to why this hasn’t happened yet?
When these things occur, I believe there are two things we can do: pray and write/or call the bishop of the diocese in which the college is situated. It would be helpful too, if the article included the name and address of the Bishop. Catholics of that diocese in particular, need to call the chancery and inquire about the college’s status as a “Catholic college”. We need to verbalize our dismay and outrage at the lie.
Dear Prof. Laureano,
I stand up against you – as a sister of 7 women and 3 men, as a mother of 5 daughters and one son, as a labor and delivery nurse for 32 years, as a teacher in an all-girls Catholic High School. You are in terrible error. … You are giving BLIND OBEDIENCE to secular feminism and the culture of death. YOU ARE NOT USING THE BRAINS GOD GAVE YOU! How are you going to respond to Him, who loved you in to existence?!?!
If a Professor/Instructor at a Catholic College is not 100% with the Catholic Faith they should not be allowed to teach at a Catholic College.
As a member of the Mount class of 1961, I can state emphatically that MSV is well aware of Bianca L. I personally sent emails to the Mt and classmates about this adjunct instructor. I personally sent a packet of 12 pages of her material to the US Bishops, Archbishop Dolan of NY,the Mt Chaplain and a nun on staff that has been in leadership. Only the Archbishop responded but just to ask me if I would give him my permission to show the packet to the President. Have not heard from him since May and never heard from the others listed. So the Mt is well aware. Dr. Flynn was questioned at our recent 50th reunion by a classmate to no avail. Dr. Flynn’s response to my emails was from the alumni office, telling me that school policy is to allow faculty to have their own opinions as long as they avoid telling specifically they are employed at MSV. They obviously have not checked her bio on line where she lists she is an adjunct instructor at Mt. St Vincent. They also indicated that they have a diverse faculty who do not have to agree with Catholic teachings. This woman … has used pornographic paintings of the Blessed Mother in a lecture. She is an abortion doula which is one who sits with one having an abortion. So her latest does not surprise me. I suggest everyone flood the US Bishops and Archbishop Dolan with their shock.
Maybe the Mt will listen. The other potential is that just like Manhattan College, the former man’s college to the Mt will have the NLRB issue a ruling that the Mt. is not ” Catholic enough” This came about when their adjunct instructors filed for collective barginning rites. This case is in the courts but I feel comfortable, given the relationship that Mt instructors were approached to sign on.
So many Catholic Colleges and Universities are no longer standing up for basic Catholic principals. Just read about ND, Georgetown to name a couple.
Pat Hurley Ward
MSV Class of 1961
This is rediculous! No wonder catholics are considered flakey. No other religion would condone this slandering of their teachings. Allowing her to stay on suports her position.
Her anti-Catholic teaching is influencing our young Catholics on a regular basis. Why do our Catholic colleges allow this? Step up, administrators, and screen your candidates more thoroughly, monitor their teaching, and fire those who teach AGAINST the church. She is in my prayers beginning today.
Michael Voris once stated, “Truth is Charity”.
The truth is that many of our so called “Catholic
Universities” have been infiltrated. We have not stood
up and demanded that the our Catholic faith be
taught in truth. From the beginning, we should have
fired anyone not teaching or living the faith. It’s
time to clean house. Teach the faith in all it’s truth
or get fired. No other religion would allow this to
happen. We catholics have much to atone for.
Shame on us for allowing the True faith to be
destroyed right before our eyes and do nothing.
Yes we must pray, but we must also act! Make your
voices heard. We have denied Christ, but like
Peter, we too can make things right. May God
in his infinite love have mercy on us.
I am as apalled as these other commentors! It escapes me that the college would allow and continue to allow this person to instuct the young Catholic people who struggle every day with the evils of the world and are looking for our Catholic ‘truths’. Please not this garbage that she is trying to put into their young minds. They are so vulnerable! They are so open and so ready to accept a new and radical veiw and she is so, obviously, ready to give it to them.
Where is the colleges’ leadership? Where is the Dean? Where are their spines? GOD HELP US if this is Catholic education.
I have grandchildren that I pray can go to a Catholic university someday, but where will that be. NotreDame would have been my first choice but it too is corrupted. Now I see the others are following close behind. GOD HELP US!
I would like the email address of the president of Mount Saint Vincent’s College. I have a hard enough time affording the cost of tuition for Catholic education for my kids without supporting professors or colleges of this ilk. I would like to let them know.
Thank you for your fidelity to the Church.
Fire this professor and do it now. The children and their parents are being blind-sided by this woman who calls herself Catholic on the faculty of a Catholic college. All Catholics have a daily responsibility to live, act, practice and believe the teachings of the Catholic church. I’m not sitting in judgement, but the “writing is on the wall”.
It is a sad situation when a professor with the ideology of Bianca Laureano is hired by a Catholic teaching institute and paid to teach our Catholic students. While parents sacrifice personal wants and often needs to send their children to receive Catholic doctrine and strengthen and support their faith, it is incomprehensible that this type of indoctrination of secularism is presented to their children. Don’t our young people have enough of a struggle keeping their faith in God and the Church, without having to pay to hear teachers like Bianca Laureno put more confusion, doubt and antiCatholic teaching into their minds. Pray for Bianca but take her off the payroll. Having her teach is flat out wrong.
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