Jesuit university shuts down Catholic lecture after leftist students smear speaker as ‘Nazi’ – Allah's Willing Executioners
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The Jesuit university in Munich, Germany, has canceled the talk of a Catholic philosopher after leftist students expressed their outrage.
The Munich School of Philosophy (HFPH), run by the Jesuits, informed Dr. Sebastian Ostritsch two days before his scheduled talk that it was canceling the event. The HFPH told Catholic Newspaper Die Tagespost: “In view of the circumstances both inside and outside the university, open academic dialogue no longer seemed possible.”
Ostritsch is a philosopher, author, and editor for the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, who teaches as a private lecturer at Heidelberg University. He was supposed to give a talk on the five proofs of the existence of God by St. Thomas Aquinas, titled “Is God’s existence a matter of rational knowledge? Thomas Aquinas vs. Immanuel Kant.” The occasion was the publication of his latest book on the topic called “Serpentines: Thomas Aquinas’ Proofs of God after the Age of …