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Published: October 20, 2008
“No recourse?”
Student newspapers at Catholic colleges run condom ad
The online editions of 42 student newspapers from Catholic colleges in the U.S. ran an ad for Trojan brand condoms earlier this month, including a request that those who saw the ad "help us donate 1,000,000 condoms now," the Cardinal Newman Society reports. Among the Catholic student newspapers publishing the ads on their web sites were three from California.
The California collegiate newspapers that ran the ad included The Argonaut of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, the Collegian at St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, and The Santa Clara at Santa Clara University, according to the Cardinal Newman Society.
 The condom ad was placed via the College Media Network in online editions of the student newspapers during the week of Oct. 7, said the Newman Society. Because the newspapers choose to have College Media Network host their online editions, they “have no recourse when advertisements for other offensive products, like Trojan Condoms, appear on their site,” said the Newman Society report.
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 3:29 AM By Maria C
This ad is only teaching the youth to go ahead and have sex out of marraige and make this company more rich. With the economy doing so bad, condoms have to survive and the only way they can do this is by reaching out to the youth of America and encourage sex outside of marraige.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 7:29 AM By racjax
"Because the newspapers choose to have College Media Network host their online editions, they “have no recourse when advertisements for other offensive products, like Trojan Condoms, appear on their site,” said the Newman Society report."
Well then obviously they need to "choose" another host source so they CAN have recourse. Duh.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 8:03 AM By Chuck Anziulewicz
I can already hear the usual calls for excommunication, or denial of Communion at the very least. "You can't be Catholic if you advocate the use of condoms!" they'll scream.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 8:29 AM By Thomas
This is where the RUBBER meets the road.....what's going on that this is allowed?
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 9:28 AM By Kathy
Well, the schools should threaten to choose a different "host" than CMN. If the schools unite in this, the collective force will be all the greater. I would imagine if asked, CMN could have a Catholic advertising protocol that would apply to all their Catholic school clients.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 9:35 AM By Eileen
"ATTENTION NEEDED FROM THE VATICAN"..........
Where are the Catholic Church Conductors of Moral Leadership and Discipline? Forty-two Catholic Colleges in the U.S. have our youth traveling on bullet trains to hell with "No Stop Sign" in sight! HELP WANTED URGENT!!!!
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 11:52 AM By Dan
"I can already hear the usual calls for excommunication, or denial of Communion at the very least. "You can't be Catholic if you advocate the use of condoms!" they'll scream. " Chuck, if such encouragement to condom use was a means by which impressionable college students were assisted in living promiscuous lives, with the usual attendant consequences thereof, would you be glad to take their place at Judgement, and accept the consequences of their actions?
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 12:16 PM By Richard
I see too many Trojans and too few Spartans among us.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 1:09 PM By Ann
If you think that an ad like this is going to make a difference as to whether or not college students will use condoms, then you are living in a fantasy world. The time for a young person to develop a moral compass is before they leave home for college. As a parent who raised my son with a strong moral grounding, I have no problem whatsoever with the advertisement. CMN is the main online host of college newspaper content and, as such, these colleges mentioned here should play in the mainstream. Surely there are much more serious moral challenges in our world such as poverty, racism, violence and abuse of power by civil authorities. These are the bullet trains to hell that one reader mentions. So get over it. And, in the spirit of full disclosure, my son is a graduate of Santa Clara University and we are proud of it! He learned more at SCU about the issues that we as Catholics should be incensed about than he could have anywhere. Let's sweat the big stuff. There's plenty of it to go around!
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:23 PM By Dan
"Student newspapers at Catholic colleges run condom ad." The subheadline for this article is misleading. These newspapers host their content on a third-party website and do not choose what ads appear on their site. This is a non-story. I will now sit back and wait for to be flamed for being a "cafeteria Catholic."
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:33 PM By Sawyer
Ann, your son is a graduate of Santa Clara University? The alma mater of Mayor Gavin Newsom? So I bet your son is an ardent opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage, just as Gavin is.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:47 PM By Dan
Student newspapers at Catholic colleges run condom ad." The subheadline for this article is misleading. These newspapers host their content on a third-party website and do not choose what ads appear on their site. This is a non-story. I will now sit back and wait for to be flamed for being a "cafeteria Catholic." Alas, there are apparently now two Dans posting on this website, and I would not want to be associated with this post. I am the Dan of the first post, at 11:52; I henceforth go by the name Dan G.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 3:42 PM By ssoldie
Hey! Chuck, If you don't believe in the Creed you say (I presume) at Mass every Sunday, then find a "church" who thinks the way you do and leave the Church that Christ instituted. Just leave...................
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 3:45 PM By Mea Culpa
If these ads won't make any difference in college students' decisions, then why would the company spend a lot of money to place them? Obviously, because they do make a difference. Seeing these ads in on-line editions of Catholic school newspapers will lead people to think that the Church thinks it's OK to have sex if you use a condom. Whoever allowed this to happen needs to be fired, and the colleges need to find a server where they can control the content of the ads associated with their newspapers. DUH.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 4:21 PM By Ann
Sawyer, Not sure where you are going with your comment, nor it is particularly relevant. My son has a mind of his own as do most intelligent young people. Students don't have identical opinions on issues just because they attend the same college, just like readers of this publication don't have identical opinions on issues. A college where everyone has the same opinions on issues isn't worth attending. I agree with Dan G. This is non-story.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 9:26 PM By Shannon
Well, you can all stick your fingers in your ears and go, "LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH-LAH", and pretend that young people who's hormones are raging, are not having sex. You want them to abstain; and yet, anointed priests who have taken Sacred Vows cannot abstain from sexual contact with both men and/or women. GET A GRIP ALREADY! If you have raised your children as well as you think you have, then you have nothing to worry about. If not, you're on your own.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 10:32 PM By Brian McNally
DUMP the "College Media Network" service!
Perhaps the Knights of Columbus or the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops could create a College Catholic (Christian) Media Network?
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 11:19 PM By Sawyer
Ann, you proudly stated about your son: "He learned more at SCU about the issues that we as Catholics should be incensed about than he could have anywhere." Any objective reader would take that to mean that your son learned what Catholics should be incensed about while attending SCU. Well, two issues that Catholics should be incensed about (if official Catholic teaching is taken as the standard) are legal abortion and the legal recognition of same-sex "marriage". Now, it's a simple matter of logic to follow your point through to its conclusion: that your son indeed opposes abortion and same-sex marriage because he received such a great and authentic Catholic education at SCU. My comment is relevant because it's based squarely on what you stated. Of course, I suspect that what you really meant is that your son learned about poverty, hunger, homelessness, discrimination, pacifism, racism, heterosexism and all that hooey while at SCU; same as Mayor Newsom. Finally, a college that doesn't guide students toward the truth is a college not worth attending, and a Catholic college that doesn't faithfully guide students in the authentic Catholic faith is a Catholic college in name only that is not worth attending.
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Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 11:50 PM By Eileen
Ann, A very wise and holy Mother Superior of a Carmelite Monastery recently said, "Social justice without personal holiness is just busy work". Ann, for you to say that this is a non-story is pretty tragic. The most tragic part about it is that you are not the 'least bit aware' of how far away from the Catholic faith you sound. Please don't criticize the Mother Superior for not attending SCU to get a "mind of her own". It sounds like Santa Clara University does some pretty good brain washing that turns out some Catholic-lites. I'm sorry to have to remind you Ann but this is California Catholic Daily not The Busy Work Before God Blog. Promoting mortal sin is the "big stuff" that can cost young adults with minds of their own their souls. What does it profit our children to work in a soup kitchen on Monday, protest racism and violence on Tuesday but offend God with mortal sin the rest of the week? Please Ann,..."Do sweat the "big stuff" when it comes to mortal sin!" College children like everyone else, are not exempt from being called home early to face Almighty God. A Catholic parent's primary duty is to still remind our college students the importance of remaining in the state of sanctifying grace.
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Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:03 AM By Daniel A.
Indeed, Ann and Sawyer, I am myself a graduate of SCU and I don't think I share any opinions in common with Gavin Newsom.
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Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:02 PM By JLS
Shannon, on the other hand, you don't mean to say that you spend all your time imagining all the young people having sex, do you? Have you ever considered other things to imagine?
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