STEUBENVILLE (OH)
ChurchMilitant
April 8, 2019
By Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D.
Fr. Sean Sheridan steps down after months of public controversy
The embattled president of Franciscan University of Steubenville is resigning.
In an email to students sent Monday morning, Fr. Sean Sheridan announced that the university has accepted his resignation, which he submitted “[n]ot too long ago.”
“As you can imagine, this was a difficult letter for me to write and deliver to you as I have great affection for the entire Franciscan Family,” Sheridan wrote.
Sheridan came under fire after Church Militant reported the university’s initial support for Dr. Stephen Lewis, who assigned a blasphemous and pornographic book in a graduate course during spring 2018.
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