Protest at Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, Pro-aborts are Honored with Award!!

Crusade for the Defense of Our Catholic Church, American Life League ^ | 04.15.04

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After the 4 pm presentation, both jurists will answer audience questions. At 5:30, Barry will join NJ Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz and US District Judge Katharine Sweeney Hayden as presiding judges in this year's Gressman Appellate Moot Court Competition, both events are open to the public and are free, call 973-642-8707 for reservations.

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[Texas Eagle]

As a Catholic Institution, Seton Hall should NOT allow this to happen.

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.

[ppaul]

Seton Hall...an institution that covered up for a bunch of pedophiles...

Huh?

[Texas Eagle]

Huh?

Huh, what?

[Spacemonkey1023]

But fortunately the NJ College Republicans are holding our state convention there this friday (4/17). Let's hope some sense rubs off on the rest of them.

[leprechaun9]

I did not attend my high school reunion (St. Benedicts Prep in Newark, NJ) this year because the school had selected three PRO-ABORTIONISTS to be honorary Co-chairs of the annual school banquet:
Mc Greedy
Corzine
Mayor for life Sharp James

Because of this selection, I have to conclude that St. Benedicts Prep no longer follows the Catholic religious principles that I was taught as a student there.

It really is a CINO institution = CATHOLIC IN NAME ONLY!

[Aquinasfan]

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.

[Mr. Silverback]

ProLife Ping!

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[TruthShallSetYouFree]

But fortunately the NJ College Republicans are holding our state convention there this friday (4/17).

Friday is 4/16.

[Steve_Seattle]

As a graduate of Seattle University (Jesuit), I've noticed that Catholic colleges now seem to place much more importance in adhering to the Democratic Party line than Catholic moral teaching. Inded, defending the Catholic moral teaching on homosexuality can now get you in trouble on Catholic campuses. Every op-ed I've seen from a Seattle U professor in the last ten years has been far left. Recently, the president of Seattle U took the official pro-terrorist leftist position that "we've got to understand why they [the terrorists] hate us."

[Steve_Seattle]

"Of 230 "Catholic" colleges, a mere handful (10-15) are orthodox."

I don't doubt this, but how is it measured, and by whom? What are some of the 10-15? My guess is that they are mostly small, newer ones, that were explicitly founded to fight the secularizing trends in the older schools.

[Coleus]

Neither the institutions of Seton Hall University nor the Catholic Church in NJ covered up any pedophiles. I don't know where you obtained your very-wrong information. Many abusers were taken out of the ministry and prosecuted when identified. Throughout the country many dioceses had no outbreaks of abuse because the bishops did the right thing. The news only reported part of the story and many gullible people, including freepers, believed everything the left-wing biased press reported. The biggest cover-up was with Cardinal Law in Massachusetts and in a few other dioceses.

The big cover-up is what has been going on in the Protestant Churches--the same percentage of ministers committed abuse against minors.

[Coleus]

Sounds like they are more into devil worshipping by condoning one of the worst crimes against God and humanity. Now what kind of impression does this leave on the alumni,students and parents? The Communist party, atheists and secular humanists have infiltrated the clergy and church and will stop at nothing to bring it down.

[firebrand]

Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, has been around for a while. The one in Florida founded by a famous businessman is new. I think the Franciscans in general are keeping things kosher.

[Aquinasfan]

What are some of the 10-15?

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.

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Good Catholic Colleges Universities

Assumption College
Ave Maria College
Benedictine College
Campion College
Christendom College
Holy Spirit Institute
The College of St. Thomas More
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Legionaries unveil Thornwood college plans
Magdalen College
New Catholic University
Our Lady of Corpus Christi
Southern Catholic College
Thomas Aquinas College
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts

Who Is Catholic? New conservative colleges

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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).

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Veritatis Splendor

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.