"What was the most important event in the history of the world?"

"The Annunciation," St. Peter’s in Hamburg, by  Master Bertram of Minden, 1383 AD

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was asked that question in 1957 during his final oral exam before a panel of four history professors at Georgetown University.   Scalia gave one answer after another (Waterloo, Thermopylae)  but the chairman of the department, Dr. Walter Wilkinson, kept shaking his head.  Finally, Dr. Wilkinson replied, "Mr. Scalia, it was the Incarnation, when Christ became a man.  That is the correct answer."

It's still the correct answer.

h/t Creative Minority Report

The Jesuits of Georgetown absolutely insist upon the study of only one subject

St. Ignatius Loyola

LGBT sensitivity training.  They require it of participants in the Community Scholars Program at Georgetown.  Of course, there's no such requirement for the study of Catholicism.  And what happens to those who refuse to participate in LGBT sensitivity training?   Security escorts them from campus.  Evidently, Jesuits can still be very strict when it comes to things in which they actually believe.


St. Ignatius Loyola, pray for us.