Catholic University of America Cuts Ties With Pro-Abortion Group

The Catholic University of America’s school of social work is reportedly cutting ties with a group due to its advocacy of abortion.

Will Rainford, who became Dean of the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS) in June of this year, recently announced in an email to students that he was ending relations with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) because of its position that social workers should support access to abortions for clients, according to the Chronicle of Social Change.

The NASW states in its issues section that social workers should, “assist clients in obtaining whatever help and information they need for effective family planning and for maintaining their reproductive health” including securing funding for abortion services.

The organization’s support of abortion rights doesn’t end with its policy statement either. The NASW co-sponsored a march for “reproductive freedom” on the National Mall in Washington D.C.; it contested political nominations because of the nominee’s pro-life stance; and publicly supported legislation to legalize abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy, allow post-viability abortions to be performed on an out-patient basis in clinics, allow non-physicians to perform abortions, and possibly eliminate conscience protection of religious hospitals that refuse to perform abortions.

In the email, Rainford informed students, “Such a concrete and public declaration by an institution is completely incongruent with Catholic Tradition and thus renders the organization out of bounds for the school as an institution.”

The NCSSS’s website states, “Social workers attend to the ways human life is attacked, degraded, and discarded. In social work practice, every person is precious, requiring the professional social worker to strive towards enhancing the life and dignity of the human person.”

A recent tweet from Rainford appears to affirm he takes this core principle of Catholicism to heart. He tweeted, “I just don’t know how u can be ‘Catholic’ and support abortion. People make up their own religion 2 justify self.”

Some house cleaning is always a good thing.

1 posted on 10/31/2013 1:48:46 PM PDT by GonzoII

2 posted on 10/31/2013 1:49:11 PM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)

They’ve been cleaning house for a few years and really

Pope Benedict visited there and told them that they had a lot of nerve referring to themselves as catholic with their practices and endorsents.

They responded

The church at work

3 posted on 10/31/2013 1:53:05 PM PDT by stanne

Pope Benedict visited there and told them that they had a lot of nerve referring to themselves as catholic with their practices and endorsents.

Next he needs to visit Georgetown.

4 posted on 10/31/2013 2:03:37 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (-)

A Christian of any stripe shouldn’t be pro-abort. That’s fighting against Christ.

5 posted on 10/31/2013 2:04:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)

Popes telling off some of the more egregious abusers.

6 posted on 10/31/2013 2:06:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)

To: Right Wing Assault

No visit required...just burn the place down. I’m a CUA alumnus and am glad to see my alma mater clean house.

7 posted on 10/31/2013 2:14:44 PM PDT by pgkdan

Yes, everyone has to take out the trash sooner or later.

Too bad Catholic University was too stupid or PC to do it sooner.

Unbelievable...

8 posted on 10/31/2013 2:29:32 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)

Good, more should do just this.

9 posted on 10/31/2013 2:31:37 PM PDT by jocon307

To: GonzoII; Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; ...

h/t to Gonzell for the ping!

10 posted on 10/31/2013 2:33:14 PM PDT by NYer ("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)

No visit required...just burn the place down. Then he could visit the Georgetown ashes.

11 posted on 10/31/2013 5:00:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (-)

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