I got my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At that time, the bishop there & the Newman Center on campus were extremely right-wing, with the latter led by right-wing Msgr. Stuart Swetland, who compared Al Gore to Mussolini on the eve of the 2020 election. Anyway, Bishop...1/
May 15, 2025 16:50Gumbleton, the liberal bishop who ordained Pope Leo XIV a deacon, gave a talk on campus, but he had to give it at the Y. Neither Swetland nor any of the priests at the Newman Center came to it. An example of how the Catholic Church has changed from that JPII era to the Francis & Leo era. 2/2
