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Birks: Where better to fuck with the papacy?

Re: “Dress code flouted in Birks Chapel” | Compendium! | September 28

The “campus pagans” who are cited in the “serious news” article of September 28 are following a long tradition of “thumb[ing] their noses at the papacy” in the halls of the Birks Building. The building began life as a Methodist college, and the faculty of religious studies continues to have strong ties with the United, Presbyterian, and Anglican theological colleges. There is a certain view of history that sees such Protestant denominations as “thumbing” their noses at the papacy in the theological sense, so the “campus pagans” were certainly in good company.

Daniel SimeoneMaster’s I HistoryPresident of PGSS