It appears that Notre Dame may be no more Catholic than Harvard or Yale as the university has promoted its own “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.”

Notre Dame University President has defended the school’s decision to sponsor a drag queen show on the grounds of “academic freedom” and “freedom of expression.”

The university’s school paper “The Irish Rover” recently reported that the Film, Television, and Theater (FTT) Department will host a school-sponsored drag show on the campus on November 3.

Two seniors on campus are leading a group of concerned students in objecting to the university-sponsored event.

In a letter to the editor published Oct. 24, seniors Madelyn Stout and Merlot Fogarty said multiple students reached out to Father Gerry Olinger, vice president of student affairs, to object to the planned show, which is set to follow “efforts to ban drag.”

“Several students expressed concern that University funding will be paying drag artists to come to Notre Dame, dress as women, defile femininity and most importantly, promote the disordered ideology that gender and sexuality are fluid — in direct contradiction to the Catholic Church’s teaching,” the letter reads.

The show is planned as part of a course in film, television and theater on the history of drag, taught by Prof. Pam Wojcik for a class titled “What a Drag: Drag on Screen — Variations and Meanings.”

If the school is teaching students about the “History of Drag,” I would assume this would include Deuteronomy 22:5, “A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.”

One would assume that this verse would be the only concern a Catholic university has with drag. But something tells me that was cut from the course.

“His response cited University President Fr. John Jenkins’ February statement on freedom of expression: ‘Because Notre Dame is a university committed to the pursuit of truth through teaching, learning, inquiry and dialogue, we are committed fully to the academic freedom of scholars to research and publish the results of their research and to teach in accord with their obligations and training.,” the letter reads.

Committing to the pursuit of truth does not involve degrading humanity. What truth needs to be sought at a drag show?

In their letter, Stout and Fogarty argued that because drag shows amount to the harassment of women, they subsequently do not fall under the umbrella of academic freedom.

“We cannot stand for the normalization of disordered ideology. We cannot stand for the pursuit of false ideas of the human person. And we certainly cannot stand for the persistent ridicule of women and violation of our dignity. Prejudice against the truth of the human body should have no place here, especially at a University under the patronage of Mary, Mother of God,” the letter reads.

Notre Dame is a Catholic institution that is not only condoning, but also promoting the misogynistic portrayal of women. If drag has any place in society, which I don’t think it does, but even if it did, it is not in a Catholic institution.

Stout and Fogarty have described this situation perfectly, "Our very identity is being ridiculed under Mary’s watchful eye."

By supporting deviance, Notre Dame has become an abomination to the Lord.