The Kansas City Chiefs and their fans should be flying high coming off of their second straight Super Bowl victory. As the 2024 NFL season approaches, they should be focused on getting ready to defend their title and trying to become the first team in league history to win three straight Super Bowls.
Unfortunately, a great deal of news surrounding the team has to do with things that have happened off the field. Wide receiver Rashee Rice is facing several legal issues following a car accident in which he was driving 119 miles per hour, and then left the scene. He is also being investigated for his possible involvement in an altercation at a Dallas night club.
However, it has been kicker Harrison Butker who has dominated headlines as of late after a commencement speech he gave at Benedictine College went viral. During the speech, Butker attacked the LGBTQ+ community, made anti-Semitic statements, and told women that they had been “diabolically lied to” when they were told they could find happiness and fulfillment outside of the home.
Even the Nuns of Benedictine College Denounced Kicker Harrison Butker
During his speech, Butker claimed that the highest calling for a woman is be a wife and mother. It seems as if some women of his own faith, the Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, one of the founders and sponsors of Benedictine College, released a statement regarding Butker’s speech.
The statement reads, in part,
“The Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested.
“One of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemakers is the highest calling for a woman. We sisters have dedicated our lives to God and God’s people, including the many women whom we have taught and influenced over the past 160 years.”
The statement goes on to say that they want Benedictine College to be an inclusive community and that they reject Butker’s “narrow definition of what is means to be Catholic.”
Harrison Butker Spent a Week Alone in a Monestary After the Kansas City Chiefs Won the Super Bowl
Most fans of the NFL are, by now, aware that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has some interesting ways to decompress and refocus during the offseason. When the Green Bay Packers made the decision to trade him, he was reportedly on a days-long darkness retreat in which he was locked in a pitch black room.
The experience, he says, is enlightening and that he learned a great deal about himself through the visions that he had during his stay.
According to a report by Fox 4 in Kansas City, Butker took a similar trip after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, though it was of a more conservative religious nature. At the start of the Lenten season, Butker traveled to St. Michael’s Abbey to spend a week in silence and prayer.
Per the report, Butker said, “Some devils are only cast out by prayer and fasting. We need to embrace this penance to bring order into all the chaos amongst us.”
