UT University Catholic Center

Jenson Stevens

I greatly appreciated the UCC while at UT. It has many masses each weekend during the school year (including a late mass), with some variety of music at each one. It has events each week and plenty to get involved with as a student. In 2020, the Bishop of Austin decided to assign diocesan priests to the UCC. (It was previously served by Paulist priests.) The chaplain who has been there since then is very hard-working, faithful, and reverent. He is friendly and welcoming, but does not shy away from any of the unfashionable truths of the Church, to which many might say, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” (John 6:60). === It is unfortunate that the most recent reviewer has been offended by an Instagram post celebrating the the end of Roe v. Wade, which included a comparison of the killing of unborn children with slavery. A follow-up was posted to move away from this comparison somewhat. Nonetheless, the UCC does affirm (with the universal Church) that the killing of millions of unborn children is an immense tragedy and an injustice of the highest degree. (That reviewer also notes that the Law of Moses did not impose the death penalty for causing a woman to miscarry, which is an odd thing to note given that it also did not condemn slavery. E.g., Exodus 21:26. Christian morality has developed more fully since then. E.g., Luke 16:18 (Jesus rejecting remarriage after divorce); Acts 10:9-15 (God ending Kosher laws); Didache 2:2 (early Christian treatise rejecting abortion); Fratelli Tutti 263 (rejecting the death penalty); Evangelium Vitae 73 (rejecting legalized abortion).) If, however, you do not wish to hear the occasional condemnation of legalized abortion, there is a nice Paulist parish down the street where you can hear very little about abortion.

Ryan

The UCC directly compared slavery to abortion in the US. On their most recent instagram post. Imagine comparing slavery to abortion, and thinking that that's appropriate or a Godly thing to do. UCC can't leave faith out of politics, even though the Bible in scripture says "If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. meaning that the dead 'fruit' or fetus/baby's death is worth a monetary repayment, but the wife's death is equal to the death of the perpetrator, creating a hierarchy. To deny this is to deny the truth of God's teachings to fit a political agenda.

dr. fernand basquez

Good energy!

Joyce Carter

"Great service . Priest are great!"