Catholic College Vows to Punish Students if They Don’t Stop Handing Out Condoms

While the students aren’t planning to stop distributing condoms, the school remains clear that the practice violates Catholic teaching. In an e-mail statement Jack Dunn, a spokesperson for Boston College, told the Globe that condom distribution is a violation of university values and policies.

“As a Jesuit, Catholic university, there are certain Catholic commitments that Boston ­College is called to uphold,” he wrote. “We ask our students to respect these commitments, particularly as they pertain to Catholic ­social teaching on the sanctity of life.”

And Dunn’s comments in a separate NBC report, helped shed some additional light on the college’s stance:

Dunn said that student distributing contraception had “taken it to a new level,” which prompted the warning after four years of students engaging in the practice.  No longer confined to dorm rooms, Dunn said students had become a visible and disruptive presence on campus, handing out condoms in front of churches and on sidewalks.

“Boston College doesn’t care how students handle their private lives. You can have condoms in your room,” he said. “But it has become an attempt to make a mockery out of Catholic values.”

School administrators had also told the Boston College Students for Sexual Health in meetings to stop handing out condoms on campus prior to the email being sent, Dunn said.