In 2015, Columbia University was in an uproar over Ovid’s
Metamorphoses
, which was, at the time, required reading for the freshman class. The classic Roman myths include tales of rape and sexual assault, material that students deemed “triggering and offensive,” marginalizing “student identities in the classroom.” Students felt “unsafe,” and demanded trigger warnings for the text. Nine years later, the campus is again awash in protest, but this time, students are denying, defending, or even celebrating the actual rape and sexual torture of Israeli women.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
