Leo XIV to personally present "Sustainability Medal" for scandalous university

"Leo XIV will personally present the inaugural Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal on October 13 at a scandal-plagued Villanova University conference.

The 'Catholic' Augustinian university, which officially promotes gender ideology, announced the new award named after alumnus Robert Prevost with a July 20 press release. The conference, 'Responding to the Cries of the Earth and the Poor,' will take place at the Borgo Laudato Si’ garden in Castel Gandolfo, the pope’s summer residence.

According to the university’s president, Father Peter M. Donohue, OSA, Ph.D., 'The Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal reflects a deeply held belief at Villanova University: that care for our common home and care for one another are inseparable. By recognizing leaders whose work advances both environmental stewardship and the common good, we hope to inspire meaningful and lasting impact in communities around the world.'

Fr. Donohue presided as president over the Augustinian university during its continued departure from the Catholic faith:

In 2023, Villanova hosted a lecture by Naomi Washington-Leapheart, a lesbian LGBT activist and adjunct professor in Villanova’s Theology and Religious Studies department, on 'the end of white Christian America.' She has stated that she can only remain a Christian by imagining 'Jesus is Black and queer.'

The university has hosted performances of The Vagina Monologues, a play repeatedly condemned by bishops for its explicit and degrading content.

In 2022, Villanova issued a 'Gender Inclusive Practices Guide' that instructs faculty and staff to use preferred pronouns and avoid binary language, effectively embedding transgender ideology into university life."