The Agenda

Providence College Bans The Vagina Monologues

By Eve Wartenberg Condon

[Note: This article first appeared in The Agenda #16 (March 16, 2006)]

To exclude [The Vagina Monologues] from
a Catholic Campus is to say either that these women are wrong or that their
experience has nothing important to say to use. [T]hese are voices that a
Catholic university must listen to if we are to understand human experience and
if we are to be faithful to the one who welcomed all men and women."

—Rev. Kevin Wildes, President of Loyola University,
New Orleans

"Freedom in the Catholic tradition, and even in the American political
tradition, is not the right to do anything. Freedom in the academy is always
subject to a particular discipline. It is never an absolute."

—Bishop John M. D'Arcy, University
of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.