Harkins Hall, at Providence College. The college’s first building, it was constructed in 1918—1919 in the Collegiate Gothic style then very popular on American campuses.
Adapted from Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocalProv.com
There’s considerable tension these days at Providence College, a Catholic institution founded in 1917, over the feeling of LGBTQ students and employees that PC’s administration doesn’t adequately respect them (or agree with them?).
The central problem, of course, is that Catholic theology doesn’t mesh well with the desires, actions and beliefs of these students and staff. One wonders, then, why they’re at PC, given the many other institutions they could attend. And after all, PC, let alone the Roman Catholic Church, has no obligation to change its views.
I taught at the college for several years and always found it was run in a kindly way. That was before most people had heard of “LGBTQ”. I’m waiting for a few more letters to be added in our identity-obsessed times.
