Posted on 05/07/2003 11:23:49 PM PDT by gubamyster
Group insists speakers at a Catholic school should back church's positions.
By William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
Traditionalists have ignited a debate among Catholics over the selection of Congresswomen Loretta and Linda Sanchez both of whom favor abortion rights as Saturday's commencement speakers at a Catholic college in Los Angeles.
The two have been targeted by the Virginia-based Cardinal Newman Society, which also this year has challenged Catholic college graduation speakers around the country including a governor, a Supreme Court justice and a host of a political talk show who hold views contradictory to church teachings.
Members of the society and antiabortion Catholic groups plan to picket Saturday's graduation ceremony at Mount St. Mary's College, a 74-year-old school for women with campuses in Brentwood and near downtown Los Angeles.
"I cannot believe they did not know the position of the Sanchez sisters on abortion," said Patrick J. Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, whose stated mission is to strengthen Catholic identity at Catholic colleges. "It's part of their political persona. The Catholic universities and colleges, if they consider themselves Catholic, must be consistent with church teachings."
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I was pretty po'd back in '88 when the student "powers that be" conveniently "left" me out of the decision process as to who to bring in for our own graduation speaker. (I was our class rep). I had been to a couple of the meetings and voiced my suggestions on who to get.
They (my "fellow" senior students) knew I had a stong opinion, and met secretly....came up with some far left wacko-bimbo CBS journalist, who proceeded to blather/screech throughout the talk about how we should "give away our services/skills" (after paying through the nose in tuition, and looking at years of paying off student loans). What a maroon, and she did not get a loud applause.
Needless to say, I had my headphones on during all of graduation, listening to the Laker playoffs. Hmmph.
MSMC has lost it. Or, they will, at least many $$$$$ in alumni donations if these pro-abortion speakers go on.
/rant
BTW who appointed you grammer policeman for the day?
Cardinal Mahoney does have some amibitions to becoming the next pope--God help us!
They use the word "traditionalists" as if a Catholic against abortion is somehow archaic, like those who favor witch burnings.
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