Church Of Gesu

This beautiful Catholic Church is the spiritual heart and soul of the Marquette campus. It’s majestic and lovely, with a wonderful organ and good acoustics for music. Very good location for bus, bicycle or walking to, a little harder to find nearby parking but it’s possible.

I attended Lower Mass at Gesu on the Feast of St. Thomas. The chapel had beautiful statues and a serenely austere atmosphere. The priest spoke very well regarding faith and doubt, nonjudgmental and supportive. The Gospel reading of the day, however, was about Jesus casting the demons into the swine. When the priest spoke his homily regarding encountering evil in the world, he said that the evils of substance and sex could affect «people like us.» Who are «people like us?» Catholics? White men? Such high and mighty speech drove me away.
On my way out, I found a pamphlet from The Fatima Center in Ontario about how Catholic women should dress. It’s terrible, telling women what to do with their own bodies.