Georgetown Ignatian Society Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-061108
The collection consists of the records of the Georgetown Ignatian Society and documents their efforts to have Georgetown University formally declared "un-Catholic" for their recognition of a pro-choice student group (GU Choice) and other offenses in the 1990s. It consists of their Petition to Cardinal Hickey, their Canon Law suits, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and anti-GU Choice buttons.
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The Georgetown Ignation Society was a lay advocacy group was formed in response to Georgetown University officially recognizing a pro-choice student group (GU Choice) in 1991. According to an article by Claire Zeng, "over 1,500 Georgetown alumni, professors, and students filed a canon law petition asking Cardinal Hickey, then-Archbishop of Washington, to require Georgetown to comply with Catholic teachings or else be stripped of its Catholic identity." ("The Case for Catholicism," The Georgetown Voice, October 31, 2013)
1.5 Cubic Feet (3 boxes)
English
Gift of the Georgetown Ignation Society, 2006.
The collection included a large number of "Mandates of Procurator" signed by Georgetown University almuni, students, and the lay community. These documents contained personally identifing information and were removed from the collection for privacy purposes. The total number of mandates measured approximately 5 inches in height. Two redacted forms and one blank form were retained.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository