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CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica: Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker’s Commencement Speech ‘Fostered Division’ [#BenedictineSisters #HarrisonButker #CommencementSpeech]

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Source: Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica Facebook Account, @mountosb

As a founding institution and sponsor of Benedictine College, the sisters of Mount St. Scholastica find it necessary to respond to the controversial remarks of Harrison Butker as commencement speaker.
Statement in Response to the 2024 Benedictine College Commencement Address
The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested.
Instead of promoting unity in our church, our nation, and the world, his comments seem to have fostered division. One of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. We sisters have dedicated our lives to God and God’s people, including the many women whom we have taught and influenced during the past 160 years. These women have made a tremendous difference in the world in their roles as wives and mothers and through their God-given gifts in leadership, scholarship, and their careers.
Our community has taught young women and men not just how to be “homemakers” in a limited sense, but rather how to make a Gospel-centered, compassionate home within themselves where they can welcome others as Christ, empowering them to be the best versions of themselves. We reject a narrow definition of what it means to be Catholic. We are faithful members of the Catholic Church who embrace and promote the values of the Gospel, St. Benedict, and Vatican II and the teachings of Pope Francis.
We want to be known as an inclusive, welcoming community, embracing Benedictine values that have endured for more than 1500 years and have spread through every continent and nation. We believe those values are the core of Benedictine College.
We thank all who are supportive of our Mount community and the values we hold. With St. Benedict, we pray, “Let us prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and may he lead us all together to life everlasting.”

The Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica issued a statement about Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s commencement address at Benedictine College last week.

The Sisters made it obvious that they are completely opposed to the kicker’s speech, in which he stated that “one of the most important” titles a woman can hold is “homemaker”.

7 Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica arrived in Atchison, Kansas in 1863 and established St. Scholastica Academy (now Maur Hill-Mount Academy) for local young women.

Mount St. Scholastica’s Junior College established in 1924 to help young women continue their education, and a senior college opened in 1932 to help women get bachelor’s degrees.

In 1858, 2 Benedictine monks arrived in Atchison from Doniphan, Kansas, to establish St. Benedict’s College, a boarding school.

In 1927, the college developed into a 4-year liberal arts men’s college.

In 1971, St. Benedict’s College and Mount St. Scholastica College united to form Benedictine College.

The nuns of Mount St. Scholastica highlighted that, while Benedictine is primarily a Catholic college, it is also a welcome place for everyone.

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