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Star Wars: Insider - Trooper Down by UdonCrew (Eric Vedder & Roberto Campus)
#Star Wars#Star Wars: Insider#Trooper Down#Clone Trooper#Jedi#Lightsaber#Sci-Fi#UdonCrew#Eric Vedder#Roberto Campus
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"Where to hide your ugly bits", a review of 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray', at the Keorepatse Kgositile Theatre, Kingsway Campus, University of Johannesburg until 16 March 2025.

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X-Campus #1 by Francesco Artibani, Denis Medri and Roberto Di Salvo
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SCHOOL RAMPAGE
‘At least 10 dead’ in Sweden school shooting as terrifying vid shows gunman prowling corridors as kids flee for lives
Horror footage shows students trapped inside the school as gunshots rang out

At least 10 people are believed to have been killed after the lone gunman opened fire at Campus Risbergska School in Orebro, according to cops.

Police announced at a press conference "some 10 people" were killed with the numbers of injured in the horror attack still unclear.
They are now working to identify the victims and inform their families.

The deadly shooting caused such extensive damage that investigators are struggling to confirm an exact death toll, Police chief Roberto Eid Forest said.
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson described it as the "worst mass shooting in Swedish history.
***Interesting, ABC news on the radio never mentioned it was a school shooting nor did they have any motive. Pretty sad when a rag like the SUN at least posts photos and explains what is going on.
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11 killed in “worst mass shooting in Swedish history”
Tragedy struck in the Swedish city of Örebro on Tuesday, leaving 11 people dead. The shooting, which took place at an adult education centre, was the deadliest firearms incident in Sweden in recent years.
The incident took place at the Risbergska adult school, located 200 kilometres west of Stockholm. The institution, which provides education for those who have not completed formal schooling or failed to achieve the grades required for university entrance, is on a campus that also houses schools for children.
The shooting, according to police, was carried out by a single individual, but his motives remain unknown. At a press conference, local police chief Roberto Eid Forest said the shooter was likely among those killed. A terrorist motive is not being considered at this time.
Police reported “about 11” dead, but warned the number could rise as several people were seriously injured and are in hospital. At least four have undergone surgery.
“We know that about 11 people have died here today. The reason we can’t be more precise right now is that the scale of the incident is very large,” Forrest said, adding that the investigation was ongoing.
Worst mass shooting in the country’s history
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson called the incident the worst mass shooting in the country’s history. He said:
“It is difficult to realise the full scale of what happened. Sweden has plunged into dark hours today,” the prime minister said, offering condolences to the families of the victims.
Kristersson called the day “very painful for everyone in Sweden.”
“Being in a classroom, fearing for one’s life, is a nightmare that no one should have to experience,” Kristersson wrote on X.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer expressed condolences to the victims and assured citizens that schools in the country would be able to safely resume operations on Wednesday.
“I have never seen a school shooting of this magnitude,” the Justice Minister admitted.
King Carl XVI Gustaf also expressed his condolences.
“It is with deep sadness and dismay that my family and I have received the news of the terrible atrocity in Örebro,” the king said.
Read more HERE
#world news#news#world politics#europe#european news#sweden#swedish#swedish politics#mass shooters#mass shooting today#orebro#risbergska#school shooters#school sh00ting
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I fear that if I work on this Professor Wolfwood fic that It's going to turn into Professor Vash instead cause to me Botany is a more interesting subject than Religious studies.
But Religious Studies is so VAST as well and pulls me in even if I'm not religious in general and can be highly interesting. Especially when Wolfwood is a very Laxed professor that knows that most students take the class because he is hot and not that they find it interesting.
Then there is Professor Nai with Music Theory...But I see him as an actually like...Early Education or Middle school teacher cause I can see him having more patience towards children than high schoolers or Adults. But he shows up to the College campus like offering his course once a week in the evening. But he's so GOOD that his class gets filled up fast. AND ALSO because he's hot. Which makes it difficult for the people who need the classes to get in to take it.
Meryl who is running about the Journalist department like a chicken with her head cut off and getting stressed out because one student decides to do their article last minute when the University Paper goes out tomorrow.
Milly working around as a Janitor cause working at the Campus means she can get a free education, and her siblings can piggy back off it. And one thing she ALWAYS thinks of is Family. What she is studying no idea.
Roberto with Humanities. Forcing his students to look at both the light and dark aspects of being human, what they consider is a monster, what humanity has considered monstrous throughout the ages, exploring horror films, mangas etc. (Basing this on my On Monsters Humanities class when I took it)
#Trigun#Trigun stampede#Professor Au#Vash the Stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#meryl stryfe#milly thompson#Roberto De Niro
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Swedish police said that about 10 people, including the gunman, were killed during a shooting Tuesday at an adult education center. But a final death toll and a conclusive number of wounded hadn’t yet been determined.
The damage at the crime scene was so extensive that investigators were unable to be more definitive, said Roberto Eid Forest, head of the local police. The shooting happened on the outskirts of the city of Orebro, which is located about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Stockholm.
Police said that the death toll could rise. Eid Forest told reporters that the suspected gunman was among those killed. Police believe the perpetrator acted alone. He wasn’t previously known to police, officials said.
The school, called Campus Risbergska, serves students who are over age 20, according to its website. Primary and upper secondary school courses are offered, as well as Swedish classes for immigrants, vocational training and programs for people with intellectual disabilities.
Gun violence at schools is very rare in Sweden. But there have been several incidents in recent years in which people were wounded or killed with other weapons such as knives or axes.
Police said that there were no suspected connections to terrorism at this point in Tuesday’s shooting. Eid Forest said there were no warning signs before the attack. Authorities were working to identify the deceased.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will hold a news conference at 7:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT) alongside Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer.
Earlier, Kristersson said that it was “a very painful day for all of Sweden,” Swedish media reported.
“My thoughts are also with all those whose normal school day was exchanged for terror,” Kristersson said. “Being confined to a classroom with fear for your own life is a nightmare that no one should have to experience.”
The shooting erupted after many students had gone home following a national exam. Police vehicles and ambulances, lights flashing, blanketed the parking lots and streets around the school as a helicopter buzzed overhead.
Teacher Lena Warenmark told SVT News that there were unusually few students on the campus Tuesday afternoon after the exam. She also told the broadcaster that she heard probably 10 gunshots.
Students sheltered in nearby buildings. Other parts of the school were evacuated following the shooting, which began at around 12:30 p.m. local time (1130 GMT).
Andreas Sundling, 28, was among those forced to barricade themselves inside the school.
“We heard three bangs and loud screams,” he told Expressen newspaper while sheltering in a classroom.
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X Men 97, episode 7 Highlights:
•Nightcrawler and his goofy puns during Gambit's funerals
• "Magneto was right" yes, yes he was right! Justice for my man!
Rogue crashing down the military building before the guy even finished his sentence, saying how lame she was (Yeah, thats my girl)
The shade toward Captain America (and the hypocrisy of the western world when it comes to helping the opressed)
"See what happens when we show our pride?" Like the use of the word pride is so important given how present it is in LGBTQIA+ spaces.
Hank and the human journalist bonding together (please, they're so cute. Let them be something)
"Riots are the language of the unheard." Excuse me? Disney casually dropping this show with this bar just the week when so many peaceful protests have been shut down all across American campus is so crazy. Like, the lack of self-awareness of western media is crazy.
Begging for your tolerance was our first mistake. This line goes so hard
"I've always done well under pressure." Like, slay, diamond queen
Roberto's coming-out scene.
#xmen gambit#x men 97#storm xmen#xmen 97#xmen rogue#xmen jubilee#jean gray#what a rollercoaster#magneto#cyclops#xmen logan#justice for genosha
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By Nuria Muíña García February 29, 2024
A student organization at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is calling for the expulsion of a prominent professor of Social Anthropology, alleging she was “transphobic.” The Socialist Youth Organization, also known as OJS, is demanding the termination of Dr. Silvia Carrasco, after she had been giving talks discussing the necessity of biological sex classifications in anthropology at the beginning of the semester.
On February 12, the OJS released a video on social media titled “let’s organize against transphobia.” In it, a female student read a speech targeting Carrasco and slamming the university for allowing “untouchable academic freedom” on sensitive subjects.
“Today, classes return to the UAB campus, ideological control returns, reactionary and transphobic speeches return to our classrooms,” she said. “Under the banner of untouchable academic freedom, they allow professors to impart content under ideological and scientific criteria, turning the classroom into a space for the production and legitimization of reactionary and… transphobic speeches… typical of social democratic politics, narratives that try to explain gender oppression from a sexual essentialism from biologist positions.”
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By Nuria Muíña García March 6, 2024
Concerns about “trans fraud” have emerged after dozens of male civil servants in one small community changed their gender identity reportedly just to get benefits allocated for females. The wave of gender change approvals follows the implementation of the Trans Law, which eased the regulations surrounding legal identity changes.
In the small, autonomous city of Ceuta alone, it has been revealed that 37 male civil servants have changed their legal gender. Of them, the vast majority are associated with the Military, National Police, Civil Guard, or Local Police, and these new “females” have curiously all chosen to retain their male names and continue their lives “as men.”
One of the men has come forward to boast of his success, stating that he changed his legal gender after the Trans Law was implemented in Spain in March of 2023.
Roberto Perdigones, a 35-year-old Army corporal, changed his legal sex to “female” after deciding he identified as an “intersex bigender” person. Perdigones explained that “externally, I am a straight man and internally a lesbian woman.”
Perdigones says he first discovered that changing his registered sex would afford him benefits after reading an update in the National Police Exam syllabus with a list of “possible” gender identities one may have. Perdigones found a gender description he felt he matched, so pursued the change.
“On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but inside I am a lesbian woman, which is what prevails. That’s why I made the legal change to female,” he says. “I did it because I could,” Perdigones admitted to El Español.
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#Spain#Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)#The Socialist Youth Organization known as OJS#Dr. Silvia Carrasco is telling the truth#untouchable academic freedom#Trans fraud#Men abusing gender identity laws#Trans Law#Ceuta#Transbian
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I started to think a bit how I would imagine a new cartoony show for the X characters as its own alternate universe like what you did with Next Mutation and Family Values.
And the idea that came to mind was instead of full on reboot of the main well known X Men team, make a show focused on the New Mutants having Magneto as their leader and headmaster (inspired by the comics of the 80s)



The Animation would borrow from the Aesthetics of Batman Beyond, Static Shock and Teen Titans, but the character concept design would be based on the italian X Campus Comics




The students would be:
Xian Coy Manh (Karma)
Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane)
Dani Moonstar (Mirage)
Tabitha Smith (Boom Boom)
Amara Aquilla (Magma)
Ruth Aldine (Blindfold)
Roberto da Costa (Sunspot)
Sam Guthrie (Cannonball)
Doug Ramsey (Cypher)
David Haller Xavier (Legion)
Warlock
Lorna Dane would assist her father with the school.
Their human allies would be Dance Teacher Stevie Hunter and Sea Captain Lee Forrester (Magneto's Love Interest).
The main influence in narrative would be Super Sentai (and its american equivalent Power Rangers): Heroes wearing uniforms of unified design but of different colors, that not only practice martial arts but also pilot individual zords and a mega zord. What do you think?
Sounds pretty cool!
Always nice to see a Marvel cartoon focusing on characters that don't get the spotlight often.
Do you have a voice cast in mine already?
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@stickypersonaearthquake @shiv-multifandom-mess @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @thealmightyemprex @piterelizabethdevries
"So when the chance comes up to create new characters, it’s good to see a diverse lineup. You can see this goes all the way back to All-New X-Men which replaced the all-white group with a much more diverse cast. And a lot of those lasted. So it’s not necessarily a bad thing. But it does place them in a precarious position if they’re not popular. Because we’re not really going to kill off, say, Cyclops. But maybe you, Thunderbird, can stay dead.
(...)
Storm was the first black superhero I ever saw. Claremont treated her with respect. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized he also played to the “exotic woman” trope that tends to go with women of color–Ororo’s white hair and her blue eyes with cat pupils (which seem to have been sort of retconned now).
I was overjoyed to see Brazilian Roberto DaCosta, Vietnamese Xian Coy Manh, and Native American Dani Moonstar in New Mutants when it first came out. I am pained to see that DaCosta has been colored progressively lighter and lighter over the years from his original rich, dark complexion. Dani, thankfully, has not completely disappeared from the pages. Xian is in Astonishing at the moment, and Dani is supposed to turn up in Fearless Defenders.
I loved the Generation X kids, but of them? Everett died. Julio died. Jubilee was already an established character. Monet’s backstory was twisted into something unrecognizable, and now she’s been whitewashed (again, colored lighter and lighter) and is in X-Factor, a book with almost no connection to the X-Universe in general.
I was also pleased to see Idie Okonkwo and Arana turn up along with the new Sprite (Japanese) in Wolverine and the X-Men. But the problem is, as it always is, increasing diversity makes people uncomfortable. If it’s white people in a story, it’s perceived to be for everybody. If it’s got more than a couple People of Color, the perception changes that it’s not for everybody, but it’s an ethnic story, and thus people shy away from reading or buying it. And the fact is, the writing is often really eggshell-stepping aware of the ethnic issues at first, but then eventually just ignores it. Like they have Idie being this self-loathing person who thinks that all mutants are monsters because of her upbringing, and she is clinging to that steadfastly, even after living first on Utopia and now on the campus of the Jean Grey school. Her worldview should be expanding, but it’s not. They have her having showed respect to Broo (sort of–she “named” him Broo by asking what to call him) for his intelligence and his respectful attraction to her, only to have her treat him literally like a dog after his recovery from being shot regressed him to a primitive state.
And Runaways–I opened that book full of hope, and gave up on it in despair when the black kid, the genius, turned out to be The Mole.
There’s also the fact that Marvel hasn’t been really good–nor DC, for that matter–with hiring diverse writers. So you get writers who aren’t really comfortable writing characters of color as people, but who awkwardly think of them as ‘the black mutant” or “the Asian” mutant."
(Women Write About Comics)
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Star Wars: Insider - Dr Frayne by UdonCrew (Eric Vedder & Roberto Campus)
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The threat of crime and violence, both actual and perceived, has lingered in our societal imagination, perpetuated by "moral panics" over, for instance, the kidnapping scares and dramatic rape cases of the 1990s and the constant hyping up of drugs as an exceptional, existential threat to the country. In places like Davao City where leaders have appealed to people's sense of fear and their felt need for protection against crime (in other words, penal populism), checkpoints serve to dramatize a sense of safety. And, of course, homeowners associations also look for the sense of security, especially with reports of theft and other crimes.
Thus, the appeal of "gated communities" plus the fact that for many Filipinos, they remain an important symbol not just of one's status but of success in one's career.
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Perhaps what's unique is the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in our country. Even with the threat of school shootings in the US, campuses have remained open—you can easily walk into Harvard Yard and even enter its buildings. In contrast, in Ateneo de Manila University, visitors have to book an appointment in advance and even within the same campus, one needs additional authorization to go to other buildings. Numerous gates and checkpoints abound elsewhere, making valid IDs essential-and further exclusionary (see "Our fetish for valid IDs," 07/22/22).
Now, I do not seek to downplay the need for security, nor to dismiss the trauma over past events that led to such responses. Indeed, violence is an everyday reality for many Filipinos, and while empathy for others is always in short supply—think of Jemboy Baltazar—the impulse to protect one's family and community is ever present and fully understandable. From an organizational standpoint, there is a cost in opening up in the public; University of the Philippine Los Baños' Vice Chancellor Roberto Cereno, for instance, laments the amount of trash they have to deal with after each weekend.
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The downside of gated communities is that they engender a sense of mistrust, perpetuating the "othering" of people who do not belong to our imagined communities. Already unreachable to many Filipinos, private universities become even more distant, and in the process of locking people out, they also lock people in, limiting the perspectives of their students and faculty; making them not just out of reach but out of touch. As Low warned, "adding walls, gates, and guards produces a landscape that encodes class relations and residential… segregation more permanently in the built environment."
by Gideon Lasco
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12/7-8/2023
thursday - friday
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one.” - Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as my girlfriend was hiding from being shot, she was hiding in the dark with her colleague, she checked her email because as people were unsure if the shooting was still taking place, or even that the man had been shot by police, someone who must have had the alert, and had access, to the registry of everyone teaching interdisciplinary studies, their emails, to send this message (credit to roberto lovato on twitter):

she did not receive this email, instead she had received one saying that the landlord is not going to be renewing any leases at this apartment complex, and that we will have to move by march.
the shooter was eventually shot by police, but no one knew for sure if it was multiple people. this was circulating, sent to me by my cousin:
he told me to listen to the police scanner, so i did. they were clearing every room, slowly, it took them hours to get to where my gf was, and along the way, anyone who stepped out, anyone who tried to flee, was pointed at with a rifle, held up by pigs, basically. the terrorism did not ever end for any of them, all at the brink of pissing themselves because they didn't want to scare a police officer and get killed. one of my gf's colleagues had a rifle pointed at him while he was trying to go piss, and they called him a straggler, and told him to fuck off, basically.
there was, simultaneous to the shooting, someone being arrested in a hotel, near campus, this seemed related to people online i think, but i never got a clear vision of what that was. all there is now, is one dead shooter, only attacking the business school building, specifically hunting down faculty after being told they would not hire him. he also sent out poisonous letters, it seems, to faculty of old schools he worked at, and places that also refused to hire him. he posted the content of the letters online. they aren't worth reproducing, i guess, they are wildly misogynistic, at the same rate, he seems to have been driven insane by academia, and pushed towards reactionary tendencies by being useless to help anyone really or accomplish anything in terms of making it not a special kind of hell. he accuses multiple people of fucking their students, he calls himself a genius constantly, he is paranoid of marxists, and on his website he also has a lot of writing re: conspiracy theories, he liked alex jones. overall, he was terrified and disgusted. he believed people he worked with were doing things like seeing child prostitutes in thailand, using work resources for csa materials. i don't know how much of that is paranoia directed at someone who might have been gay (this kind of accusation is common to level at gay people, as we see especially now), he even accused who i assume might have been lesbian coworkers of having their students give them head, or if this is somehow, a little real. i know these things do happen, teachers using their students. favors for sex between faculty, too. incapable of confronting the material causes of the hell we are in (actually dealing w/ marx intellectually/trying to understand) this particular business teacher/economist doubled down on the capitalist fantasy of meritocracies and conspiracy to account for his failings.
there is little sympathy, but there's something unpleasantly complicated about how he got to where he got. he was desperate for work, to cling to a life i guess. he took issue, and tried to kill faculty in the business school.
the police relocated many students out of their dorms, into a giant stadium, i don't know why, i guess to hunt for any potential other gunmen.
we saw my friends last night, after all of this, and we did fun stuff, but this other shit is still here, the unsurety of our housing, the guns, the police, but whatever i guess, right.
it's crazy seeing parts of the world act like this is all unreal. there is a massive amount of faith in the hyperreal, which maintains its existence, i wonder if baudrillard ever mentioned that. i don't recall, but in the semantic processes, the image making, the visions, the map that exceeds the territory, or the map which gifts us our territory, there is massive faith in those laws and processes, the positivity always, a super-ideal reality, there is only the heavensent, and so, tragedy, horror, abjection, are either absorbed as highly intentional events which seek to make something of humanity, or untrue totally. horror becomes either plan, god, or nothing at all.
everything defused, and at the center, the police managing, keep information blurry, they themselves not wanting to believe anything other than the activity they are engaged in is helpful, problems are imagined to keep the policing going, upwards, upwards, upwards. they do not realize it is all death, sinking into static images forever, no great upheavals, even the shooter is under this order, he doesn't realize that this is what he hates.
anyway, anyway, anyway, i don't know.
i don't think we live in a place where people are supposed to be, if you care about anything, there is only a terrible grinding, and not knowing. i've had nightmare about my girlfriend being killed like that. i'm so dependent on her. i don't know what i'd do. i don't like the world, i think maybe, i can admit, i don't like a lot of people. it's awful to say, i think. but everything is going to make me sick. hearing about teachers trying to keep school running like normal are so disgusting, and idiotic. the normal cannot disappear. people dying just has to be normal. there is no war on the public, there never was, new ways to die, urban hazards, there is nothing to see other than antibiotic responses to disease, and it's okay to see it.
the rodeo is in town, as she was taken to the stadium, she was taken thru barbed wire, and led in a snake-shaped path or something by a guy in army gear with an ar15, probably, and ended up somewhere in front of a barbecue food truck. there were cowboys milling around. as people were hiding in the dark i was watching the horses from our window, and the alarm and its robotic voice said words, they weren't even scared of it anymore, no whinnying. nothing.
it woke me up, i didn't think it could be that, my girlfriend told me it was and i didn't even ask if it was what i thought it could be. i don't know. she was in the dark, her colleagues argued, some at least, they were all horrified about this happening. obviously. nothing will happen, though. we are all going to collectively deal with the fact, and forced to act like this is not a fact, creating a quiet misery that we will either forget or use as staging grounds for a horrible kind of birth, of what i can hardly say, tumorous sadness i guess, that we now live in a world where this will never be taken back, and that there is no response possible, at least at the level of each of us alone. together, what could we do, all there is in my heart is the wish for a world wholly different.
i can't get over the email she received, and that we are unsure of what will happen. all either of us have done is live/survive, it feels like some kind of punishment.
i know it's not the whole world, and that landlords are especially shit. it's just extreme, i dunno, it feels like this is reproduced everywhere, on every level. maybe i am just winded and weak.
i am craving some sort of punishment, i just want to be ended but i want it to be funny i guess. that makes me greedy/selfish, i can't stop wanting it though. i just want to be exploded. tortured and left on the side of the road. right now is just that without the fun parts (possibly puking, blood, being connected to my body).
instead i am just distantly afraid.
an intolerable heat, i guess.
yesterday we saw the christmas lights at this chocolate factory. that was nice. it was very pretty, my gf saw these angel ornaments, all lit up and stuff, and she said they're like the ones in fwwm, to take me away, she meant it in a sweet way, but it made me realized all over again what that scene means to me, and how i felt then, just wanting to escape all of this awful stuff. but it's sad, i want to be here for her. i wish we could go away forever. into a life that is not shoved into various unrealities at all times.
anyway, look at these sprites from despiria.
i'm tired, now, so
byebye!!!!!!
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St. Robert Bellarmine’s Timeless Inspiration
Fr. Paul K. Rourke, S.J.
Vice President for Mission and Ministry

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598-1680) Bust of Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino, 1623-24 Marble 30 ⅞ x 27 ½ x 19 ¾ in. (76.5 x 70 x 50 cm) Church of the Gesù, RomePhoto: ©Zeno Colantoni.
This Sunday at Egan Chapel we will celebrate the Feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J., the patron of Fairfield University and the namesake of our new Bridgeport campus. Recognizing the special place of this great Jesuit theologian and Doctor of the Church in the history of the Church and our institution, Bishop Caggiano graciously allowed us to celebrate the mass for the feast in lieu of the normal Sunday liturgy.
In his own time Bellarmine was a towering figure who responded forcefully and intelligently to what was perceived as the greatest threat to the Church of his time: Protestantism. He remained one of the most influential theologians until the twentieth century. In our ecumenical times his theology can appear dated, but his example of learned and zealous engagement on behalf of the Church remains a timeless inspiration. He was not afraid of controversy, though he never sought it for its own sake.
Once seen as a reactionary and enemy of science for his role in the Galileo case, more nuanced assessments have somewhat salvaged, if not entirely restored, his reputation. Saints are not canonized for being right about everything during their lives, and Bellarmine was no exception to this rule.

Photo credit: Owen B. Photography
While it may seem strange to name our new Bridgeport campus after a man who died more than four hundred years ago, the choice is very appropriate. St. Robert marshaled all of the resources of faith and reason at his disposal to respond to the pressing need of his time. In founding the Bellarmine program we do the same: we draw from all of the best resources of our Jesuit tradition to respond to one of the most pressing needs of our own time: access to affordable and excellent education for traditionally underserved and underrepresented communities. The zeal and professionalism of our Bellarmine faculty and staff, and enthusiasm and talent of our new students would make our patron proud.
As we celebrate his feast, may St. Robert Bellarmine bless and protect Fairfield always!
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