Over 1,000 e-mails poured into University President Rev. Edward Glynn’s inbox last weekend, and they weren’t all valentine greetings. These e-mails came from people all over the nation, expressing fierce opposition to last weekend’s production of “The Vagina Monologues."According to Glynn and chair of the Communications Department Sister Mary Ann Flannery, the e-mails detailed opposition to the production’s controversial content being displayed on a Catholic university’s campus.
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This society is an ultra-conservative Catholic group, based in Virginia, said Flannery, who was in charge of the monologues.


That's me!! You know us ultra-conservates that think Catholic colleges should be, I don't know, Catholic. But this is my favorite part.

In reaction to the society’s actions, Flannery said, “I think the Cardinal Newman Society is the closest organization in the Catholic Church to the Taliban. [The Cardinal Newman Society] has used harassment and terrorist tactics to shut down the president’s computer system and to do harm to my department’s office,” Flannery said.

I'm not sure if this is a compliment or an insult. The harassment and terrorist tactics we used were sending lots of email and making lots of phone calls to the president's office, which apparently has an email system so archaic that a couple of thousand messages tanked it. That's less than some people I know deal with on a weekly basis and they don't complain that it's terrorism. Or maybe it's a backhanded compliment? Like, Muslims have al-Quaeda, which flies planes into buildings, and all the Catholic Church has is the CNS, which sends lots of emails? Like, our harassment and terrorist tactics are peaceful protest emails?

Somehow I don't think that's what she had in mind. But that's kind of what it turned out to be.