CNS Introduces a Kinder, Gentler Anti-V-Day Campaign

The Cardinal Newman Society, a self-proclaimed watchdog organization of Catholic higher education, has introduced it's Campaign to Stop the V-Monologues 2007. This year, instead of harassing college presidents (I'm guessing mostly because it didn't work to well), they are trying to show how much they care about women by offering support and funding to V-Day organizers who instead schedule "alternatives" to The Vagina Monologues. Please take note that only one of these "alternatives" are even tangentally related to violence against women and none of them are designed to be fundraisers for local and international anti-violence organizations, which is a major goal of V-Day.

CNS also quotes extensively from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and Catholic writers on the "nature" of women and sexuality, but, as if to further prove my point that they really don't care about violence against women, leaves out this paragraph:

2356 Rape is the forcible violation of the sexual intimacy of another person. It does injury to justice and charity. Rape deeply wounds the respect, freedom, and physical and moral integrity to which every person has a right. It causes grave damage that can mark the victim for life. It is always an intrinsically evil act. Graver still is the rape of children committed by parents (incest) or those responsible for the education of the children entrusted to them.