Harvard Crimson: Harvard chaplains speak against "black mass"

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Despite condemnation by the Archdiocese of Boston, Harvard chaplains, student religious groups and many alumni and students on campus, an organization of Harvard Extension School students will move forward with plans to host a staging of a satanic “black mass” on campus on Monday. “Just because something may be permissible does not make it right or good,” the Rev. Luther Zeigler, Episcopal Chaplain and President of the Harvard Chaplains, wrote in a statement on behalf of the chaplains. “Whether or not these students are ‘entitled’ to express themselves through the ceremony of a ‘black mass’ as a matter of law or University policy is a distinct question from whether this is a healthy form of intellectual discourse or community life. We submit it is not.”