Posted on 04/14/2004 9:52:51 PM PDT by Coleus
Protest at Seton Hall University School of Law
Notorious Pro-Abortion Judge Maryanne Trump Barry will be receiving the Sandra Day O'Connor Medal of Honor with O'Connor (pro-abortion) presenting the award.
As a Catholic Institution, Seton Hall should NOT allow this to happen.
Friday April 16th, 2004, 3:00 PM to 4:30
Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ
Protest is sponsored by the American Life League
Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church
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Pro-Abortion Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to award Federal Judge (Trump) at Catholic Seton Hall U
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All 5 of NJ's Bishops are on the Board of Directors for Seton Hall University. Why is Archbishop Myers silent on this issue?
116. We have the duty, as Bishops, to be vigilant that the word of God is faithfully taught. My Brothers in the Episcopate, it is part of our pastoral ministry to see to it that this moral teaching is faithfully handed down and to have recourse to appropriate measures to ensure that the faithful are guarded from every doctrine and theory contrary to it. In carrying out this task we are all assisted by theologians; even so, theological opinions constitute neither the rule nor the norm of our teaching. Its authority is derived, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit and in communion cum Petro et sub Petro, from our fidelity to the Catholic faith which comes from the Apostles. As Bishops, we have the grave obligation to be personally vigilant that the "sound doctrine" (1 Tim 1:10) of faith and morals is taught in our Dioceses.
A particular responsibility is incumbent upon Bishops with regard to Catholic institutions. Whether these are agencies for the pastoral care of the family or for social work, or institutions dedicated to teaching or health care, Bishops can canonically erect and recognize these structures and delegate certain responsibilities to them. Nevertheless, Bishops are never relieved of their own personal obligations. It falls to them, in communion with the Holy See, both to grant the title "Catholic" to Church-related schools, universities, health-care facilities and counseling services, and, in cases of a serious failure to live up to that title, to take it away.
| Archbishop John Myers 973-497-4190 |
Msgr. Robert Sheeran 973-761-9620 |
Dean Patrick Hobbs 973-642-8750 |
LOL. Yeah, kinda hard to believe that an institution that covered up for a bunch of pedophiles would stoop so low as to allow a pro-abort to speak at one of its universities.
Huh?
Huh, what?
Since the Land o' Lakes statement in 1967, Catholic colleges have been run autonomously.
"To perform its teaching and research functions effectively the Catholic university must have a true autonomy and academic freedom in the face of authority of whatever kind, lay or clerical, external to the academic community itself"
Prior to the conference, Catholic colleges were largely run by religious (brothers, sisters, priests) and were accountable to their bishops. Since the conference, the schools have been run by lay boards. Orthodoxy has gone by the wayside. Of 230 "Catholic" colleges, a mere handful (10-15) are orthodox.
In a recent encyclical, "On Catholic Universities (Ex Corde Ecclesiae)", the pope directed bishops to attempt to reign in heterodox teachers of theology in so-called Catholic colleges. His directive has been largely ignored.
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Friday is 4/16.
Here's a thread on this subject from the other day. The ones I can remember are Christendom, Steubenville, Campion, Thomas Aquinas, Magdalene, Thomas More, Ave Maria, Legionairres of Christ.
My guess is that they are mostly small, newer ones, that were explicitly founded to fight the secularizing trends in the older schools.
Your guess is exactly right.
American Life League Will Lead Protest At Seton Hall Law School Event Honoring Pro-Abortion Judge
Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark Urged to Stand Against
Culture of Death Event, Bar Celebration From Catholic Campus
Washington, D.C.— American Life League’s Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church will lead a protest at Seton Hall School of Law this Friday, April 16. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor—who has made a career of voting on the pro-abortion side in various decisions—is presenting the annual “Sandra Day O'Connor Medal of Honor” to Judge Maryanne Trump Barry of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Judge Barry is the author of a recent opinion striking down New Jersey abortion regulations.
“It is unconscionable for leaders of a Catholic institution to allow an event to take place on their campus honoring a judge who has demonstrated a total disrespect for the sanctity and dignity of human life,” said Joseph M. Starrs, director of the Crusade. “Archbishop John J. Myers has the means and the duty to put an end to this scandal by barring this event from the campus. We urge him to do so.”
Starrs observed, “Church shepherds must remember what Pope John Paul II said: ‘It falls to [bishops] … both to grant the title “Catholic” to Church-related schools, universities, healthcare facilities and counseling services, and, in cases of a serious failure to live up to that title, to take it away’” (emphasis added).
116. We have the duty, as Bishops, to be vigilant that the word of God is faithfully taught. My Brothers in the Episcopate, it is part of our pastoral ministry to see to it that this moral teaching is faithfully handed down and to have recourse to appropriate measures to ensure that the faithful are guarded from every doctrine and theory contrary to it. In carrying out this task we are all assisted by theologians; even so, theological opinions constitute neither the rule nor the norm of our teaching. Its authority is derived, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit and in communion cum Petro et sub Petro, from our fidelity to the Catholic faith which comes from the Apostles. As Bishops, we have the grave obligation to be personally vigilant that the "sound doctrine" (1 Tim 1:10) of faith and morals is taught in our Dioceses.
A particular responsibility is incumbent upon Bishops with regard to Catholic institutions. Whether these are agencies for the pastoral care of the family or for social work, or institutions dedicated to teaching or health care, Bishops can canonically erect and recognize these structures and delegate certain responsibilities to them. Nevertheless, Bishops are never relieved of their own personal obligations. It falls to them, in communion with the Holy See, both to grant the title "Catholic" to Church-related schools, universities, health-care facilities and counseling services, and, in cases of a serious failure to live up to that title, to take it away.
Then why call them Catholic colleges?
Sheesh. No wonder nobody takes Catholicism seriously.
We're looking for faithful Catholic men and women of college age who would be willing to give up part of summer vacation to take on this challenge on behalf of the preborn.
The walk starts on May 29 and concludes on July 31. We have a flyer posted online that offers more information and will enable you to help us spread the word.
Interested in joining our walk? Please contact:
Joseph Starrs
David Dufresne
Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic ChurchAmerican Life League
P.O. Box 1350
Stafford, VA 22555Phone: 888-546-2580
Fax: 540-659-2586
E-mail: crusade@all.org
The word "Catholic" isn't trademarked. "Catholics for a Free Choice" has been condemned by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops countless times, but there's little they can do about the group using the word "Catholic."
The situation with the colleges is almost that bad. Most Catholics aren't aware of the situation, and send their children to Catholic colleges expecting their children to receive a Catholic education.
(From Simon Magus; Acts, viii, 18-24)
Simony is usually defined "a deliberate intention of buying or selling for a temporal price such things as are spiritual of annexed unto spirituals". While, this definition only speaks of purchase and sale, any exchange of spiritual for temporal things is simoniacal.
Courtesy of: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14001a.htm
"The various temporal advantages which may be offered for a spiritual favour are, after Gregory the Great, usually divided in three classes. These are: (1) the munus a manu (material advantage), which comprises money, all movable and immovable property, and all rights appreciable in pecuniary value; (2) the munus a lingua (oral advantage) which includes oral commendation, public expressions of approval, moral support in high places; (3) the munus ab obsequio (homage) which consists in subserviency, the rendering of undue services, etc."
Works for me. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any bishops with the guts.
He had been a guest on O'Reilly, along with the head of the theology department at Notre Dame, Father Richard McBrien.
They were discussing whether bishops should take steps regarding Catholic politicians who speak and/or behave in a manner which is contrary to the teachings of the Church.
Chapp did not spin. The theologian from UND did a lot of spinning -- right after he explained that he wasn't going to spin.
Mandatum Part VI: DeSales Is Proud of the Mandatum
"In the future there will be two types of Catholic colleges," Father O'Connor said. "There will be the purely secular — which now includes many of the schools that had a religious founding — and there will be those that are clearly religious. We want to be part of the clearly, purely religious institutions … not presenting the secular story but an explicitly Catholic story."Father O'Connor isn't afraid to tell the public that the school's theologians have the mandatum.
"I wrote in an editorial in a secular newspaper that Ex Corde Ecclesiae was brilliant," Father O'Connor said. "It makes perfect sense to keep these Catholic schools authentically Catholic."
"There is a sizable group of parents that do care" about the mandatum, Father O'Connor said. "More than ever, there is a sizable group of young people that know what they are looking for and want the real thing."
Chapp also said he would have no qualms about telling them he has the mandatum.
"The spirit of the canon is involved. This isn't the messianic secret here," Chapp said. "There is supposed to be a public witness. Parents should be able to know what the product is that they are buying for their kid. It is utterly deceptive for a Catholic university to advertise itself as Catholic only to have students show up to lose their faith."
This is a partial list of U.S. Catholic Universities who publicly require all Catholic theology professors to have the mandatum (their bishop's recognition of their pledge to teach in communion with the magisterium of the Church). Contact editor@ncregister.com to add your school.
Canon 812 reads: "It is necessary that those who teach theological disciplines in any institute of higher studies have a mandatum from the competent ecclesiastical authority."
Aquinas College, Nashville, Tennessee
Ave Maria University, Naples, Florida
Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina
Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas
Corpus Christi College, Corpus Christi, Texas
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
DeSales University, Center Valley, Pennsylvania
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio
Magdalen College, Warner, New Hampshire
St. Gregory's University, Shawnee, Oklahoma
University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas
Oath of Fidelity Schools
This is a partial list of schools whose theology faculties have taken fidelity oaths in lieu of the mandatum. Most are in dioceses where the local bishop has not offered the mandatum. Contact editor@ncregister.com to add your school.
Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia
Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, California
Myers says university honors to abortion-rights backers won't happen again
Under heavy criticism from anti-abortion advocates, Seton Hall University acknowledged yesterday that as a Catholic institution it should not have conducted an awards ceremony last week involving two judges whose decisions have supported abortion rights.
On Friday, U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Maryanne Trump Barry received the Sandra Day O'Connor Medal of Honor, an award sponsored by three student groups at Seton Hall University School of Law.
O'Connor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, was there to present the award.
Yesterday university spokeswoman Natalie Thigpen said: "As we have always stated, Seton Hall's commitment to the gospel of life is absolute. The conferral of awards to people who publicly espouse views that are contrary to the university's fundamental Catholic identity is a serious lapse.
"There will be a thorough review of all aspects of this matter, and the policies involved."
Thigpen would not say if the 11-year-old award in O'Connor's name will be discontinued, nor would she otherwise elaborate on the statement.
This is not the first time the award has led to controversy. Past recipients include Hillary Rodham Clinton and Christie Whitman, both of whom favor abortion rights.
When Whitman, then New Jersey governor, won it in 1998, school officials forced the event off campus because of her views on abortion.
In today's Catholic Advocate, the Newark Archdiocese's newspaper, Archbishop John J. Myers criticized Seton Hall for hosting the ceremony.
Myers wrote that he first learned of the invitations to O'Connor and Barry during Easter Week, a few days before the event. University officials approached the law school about the ceremony, but Law School Dean Patrick Hobbs wanted to hold the ceremony, said James Goodness, a spokesman for Myers.
"I find this action profoundly offensive and contrary to the Catholic mission and identity of Seton Hall Law School, Seton Hall University, and the Archdiocese of Newark," Myers wrote.
He also wrote he is "proceeding in a way both to clarify the situation and to see that it does not occur again" and is "determining the appropriate action to be taken." He did not offer details.
Although Seton Hall has an identity as the archdiocesan university, it is not run by the archdiocese. However, Myers is president of the school's two governing boards, the 33-member board of regents and the 13-member board of trustees. He has one vote on each board.
Myers wrote that O'Connor and Barry "have demonstrated a lack of support for pro-life issues."
O'Connor's judicial history includes siding with a 5-4 majority in 2000 that struck down a Nebraska law forbidding partial- birth abortion, on the grounds it could criminalize other types of abortion and did not make an exception when a woman's health was at stake.
Barry wrote a 2000 decision striking down New Jersey's law that banned partial-birth abortions, saying it was too vague.
In addition, she wrote, "The Legislature would have us accept, and the public believe, that during a 'partial-birth abortion' the fetus is in the process of being 'born' at the time of its demise. It is not. A woman seeking an abortion is plainly not seeking to give birth."
Hobbs was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Opponents of abortion rights, who follow church doctrine that life begins at conception, tried to persuade the school to cancel the awards ceremony, and about 20 protesters kept a vigil before the event outside the law school.
They said the reactions of Myers and the school were too little, too late.
"In this case, everybody knows both justices' involvement," said Larry Cirignano of Bedminster of CatholicVote.org, a lay group that promotes voting among Catholics. "It was not a secret, it was never taken into consideration, and when it was taken to their attention, instead of canceling it, they adamantly went on. ... It hasn't been something that came out of the blue. Their Catholic identity should be in question."
It has to be.
[Myers] also wrote he is "proceeding in a way both to clarify the situation and to see that it does not occur again" and is "determining the appropriate action to be taken." He did not offer details.
If it doesn't involve canning the dean, I'm not interested. Whitman, Clinton and now this?
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