In the 112th session of the House of Representatives there were 65 congressmen and women who attended Catholic colleges or law schools. Out of those, 35 support abortion rights. Out of the 12 Catholic-educated congressmen in the incoming freshman class for the 113th session of the House, six of them are pro-abortion rights. In the Senate, 11 of the 15 Senators who earned degrees from Catholic institutions have previously voted for abortion rights or related bills. Nearly every Congressman and Senator in the report has a zero percent rating by the National Right to Life Committee and a 100 percent rating by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL).
The following is the list of elected officials who were educated at Catholic institutions and have voted in favor of abortion rights:
Lynn Woolsey (CA-6)
Nancy Pelosi (CA-12)
Zoe Lofgren (CA-19)
Sam Farr (CA-20)
Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)
Mike Quigley (IL-5)
Pete Visclosky (IN-1)
Steny Hoyer (MD-5)
Chris Van Hollen (MD-8)
Ed Markey (MA-5)
Mike Capuano (MA-7)
Stephen Lynch (MA-8)
Bill Keating (MA-9)
Gary Peters (MI-14)
Hansen Clarke (MI-13)
John Dingell (MI-12)
Betty McCollum (MN-4)
Shelley Berkley (NV-1)
Bill Pascrell Jr. (NJ-9)
Albio Sires (NJ-8)
Tim Bishop (NY-1)
Jerrold Nadler (NY-10)
Charlie Rangel (NY-13)
Bill Owens (NY-21)
Kathy Hochul (NY-26)
David Cicilline (RI-1)
Charles Gonzalez (TX-20)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Peter Welch (VT)
Bobby Scott (VA-3)
Jim Moran (VA-8)
Gerry Connolly (VA-11)
Adam Smith (WA-9)
Gwen Moore (WI-4)
Jared Huffman (CA-2)
Juan Vargas (CA-51)
Lois Frankel (Fl-22)
John Delaney (MD-6)
Ann Mclane Kuster (NH-2)
Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8)
Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski
Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin
Illinois Senator Mark Kirk
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin
Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski
Former Massachusetts Senator John Kerry
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey
Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy
Abp. Fulton Sheen identified this phenomenon 40+ years ago.
So when will we see a similar analysis of Congressmen who attended Evangelical colleges?
There, no doubt, exists dissidents within the Church. Benedict laid much groundwork for getting rid of these “catholics”, and I have confidence Pope Francis will carry that work on.
Clearly, the reason for this is because the church has allowed Catholic institutions to stray into heterodoxy and outright heresy.
Seriously, a Catholic university teaching atheistic philosophies as an equal to, or even superior to, Catholic beliefs, or teaching Islam as fundamentally equal to Catholicism, or advocating anti-Catholic “reforms” to the church that would destroy it, is just madness, and intolerable.
So the church must regain control, and purge these schools of those who despise the church, who openly act to corrupt and turn students away from their faith, and to ruin them with evil behavior, immorality and perversity.
“Academic freedom” and “equality” are an open invitation to corruption and an attack on the future generations of the church. And these students are offered no safe haven, protection or defense against these villains. They are in effect forced to reject their faith for academic credentials.