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[email protected]. THE XAV·IER U N 1· V .E RS I TY 88tliyeaf, issue 5 . week of SEPTEMBER25, 2002 ' www.xu.edu/newswire/ Silence not golden for Catholic Church BY ELIZABETH BONEAU . backwards in.the· last nine months, . Gommarah was .originally aQout .. Campus News Editor yet, acknowledging that, it has been "the urgency of avoiding whatever Last· Thursday, a large crowd good because it'has gotten facts on would incur God's wrath, but is gathered in the Conaton Board the. table," said Jordan: · · now taken as. encouraging Chris- . Room in Schmidt Hall to hear Dr. "In a church that attaches so· tians away from same-sex relation Mark Jordan, a chandler professor much ·moral, legal and spiritual ships," said Jordan. ofreligion from Emory University, value· to sexual attraction, every- He cited execution as the tradi~ speak on "Systems of Silence: Why one has problems speaking about tional penalty for same-sex behav- - Catholics Can't Talk it." ior as part of the Catholic "we will' About Homosexual ··Jordan burnyounowsoGoddoesn'tburn ity." '1n a church that drew atten- you later" dogma.