UT University Catholic Center

Oct 23rd, 2023

Favorite place on the 40
Sep 21st, 2023

Mar 4th, 2023

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.
Nov 20th, 2022

On their Instagram the day following the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v Wade they compared abortion to slavery, saying it should hold the same place in our national conscience. This is extremely insensitive, and lead to a considerable amount of backlash, to which they responded by turning off the comments.
Jun 25th, 2022