The College is required by law to provide ongoing awareness and prevention programs regarding sexual assault and other related crimes. We are providing a four-part program that attempts to deal with these difficult issues under the guidance of the Catholic Church. In your freshman year, you read Imitate the Purity of Christ, which outlines God’s plan for human sexuality and touches on some evils opposed to the dignity of the human person, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, violence in dating, domestic violence, and stalking. If you would like to refresh your memory on the definitions of these offenses, please read over that document again.
This year we are asking returning students to watch a video by the Most Rev. Robert Barron. In this video, Bishop Barron eloquently explains God’s plan for human sexuality and distinguishes it from puritanism, on the one hand, and the crass materialism of the hookup culture, on the other hand.