** Monlogues Update: Eight Colleges Off the List, 21 to go. **

Providence College President, Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., Ph.D. prohibits V-Monologues productions on campus!

Doubtless some will reply that this is a violation of artistic freedom. But artistic freedom on a Catholic campus cannot mean the complete license to perform or display any work of art regardless of its intellectual or moral content. Any institution which sanctioned works of art that undermined its deepest values would be inauthentic, irresponsible, and ultimately self-destructive. At Providence College artistic freedom is governed by the values embodied in our mission statement. A Catholic college cannot sanction the performance of works of art that are inimical to the teaching of the Church in an area as important as female sexuality and the dignity of women.

Fr. Shanley's excellent letter is here.