Bill Clinton (C) and his wife Hillary (L) greet Pope John Paul II in October 1995. 'The Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people,' the Clintons said in a statement.(AFP/Luke Frazza)
Posted on 04/29/2005 6:45:15 AM PDT by Libloather
Catholic Church Withdraws Recognition of College That Plans to Honor Hillary Clinton
To: National Desk
Contact: Patrick Reilly, President, Cardinal Newman Society, 703-367-0333
MANASSAS, Va., April 29 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The Archdiocese of New York has determined that Marymount Manhattan College—which has been under protest by the Cardinal Newman Society for inviting pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton to give its commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 20—is no longer a Catholic institution.
This is the fourth time since the late Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the apostolic constitution on Catholic universities, that a bishop has declared an historically Catholic college or university to be not Catholic. The three colleges previously declared no longer Catholic include Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Nazareth College and Saint John Fisher College, both in Rochester, New York.
"The decision to honor one of Congress' most outspoken and strident advocates of abortion rights was just the latest episode in a long history of secularization at Marymount Manhattan College," said Patrick J. Reilly, President of the Cardinal Newman Society (CNS), a national organization dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity at America's 220--now 219--Catholic colleges and universities.
"There is tremendous value to clearly and formally identifying wayward Catholic institutions as no longer Catholic, as Cardinal Egan has done so courageously," Reilly said. "We would have preferred that the College's trustees and officials had embraced the College's roots and respected those Catholics who founded, attended and funded this institution."
In a letter to New York's Cardinal Edward Egan dated April 14, CNS complained about Marymount Manhattan College's plans to honor Sen. Clinton and noted "that the enforcement of Ex Corde Ecclesiae may require the declaration that an institution is no longer Catholic, and we support such action if Marymount Manhattan College obstinately refuses to acknowledge your pastoral authority as bishop and to uphold the Church's fundamental teachings."
According to the Archdiocese of New York, Marymount Manhattan officials supported ending its affiliation with the Catholic Church. In 1961, the College legally separated from its parent institution, Marymount College of Tarrytown, and its founding women's religious order, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Signs of the College's Catholic identity have disappeared over time, even though until yesterday it preserved its official status as Catholic, possibly to avoid alienating Catholic alumni and donors.
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Oh, this looks quite interesting! I do hope this sort of attitude catches on.
It's a shame to see how liberalism infects even these institutions.
I guess I hadn't considered Marymount Manhattan to be a catholic college for some time, but I am shocked to see Marist College listed. Is this accurate?
I work at a near by catholic college and we value our tradition of catholic higher education and heritage. We feel it makes us distinct in our tier and among our peer institutions. While the presence of members of our founding order will diminish over time, their mission is firmly embedded in the mission of our institution and resonates strongly among all levels of faculty, staff, administration and most importantly, our students.
Saint John Fisher College declared no longer Catholic? How sad!
St. John Fisher, pray for us!
>>>Oh, this looks quite interesting! I do hope this sort of attitude catches on.
If the president, who supports the ability to obtain an abortion in cases of rape and incest, were to speak at a Catholic college or university, would they lose their affiliation with the Church?
He does?
I thought it was Laura that supported that, not the President.
Good. You can't be pro-abortion and Catholic.
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From the Republican National Coalition for Life
PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE RIGHT TO LIFE
President Bush, despite his oft-stated desire to re-establish a "culture of life" in this country, nevertheless seems to be as conflicted on the life issues as a large portion of the population. For instance, his stated "pro-life" position is contradicted by his justification of abortion for babies conceived through rape or incest.
When the opportunity arose for him to exercise presidential leadership by prohibiting stem cell research on human embryos, each of whom is a living human being — a human subject entitled to protection from harmful scientific experimentation as called for in the Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics — he instead established a policy allowing taxpayer-funding of experiments on a limited number of stem cell lines derived from embryos who were already dead prior to August 9, 2001 and prohibiting the use of federal funds for the killing of more human embryos for experimentation.
I've never posted a link, but here is a url for
Ex Corde Ecclesiae
Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities
http://www.cin.org/jp2/excorde.html
Interesting.
Thanx!
Archbishop Egan just lept up in my estimation of him.
http://www.catholicmatch.com/pl/pages/community/articles/details.html?ra=1;id=159
Since abortion is the direct taking of an innocent human life, one may never deliberately have an abortion or assist another in doing so (Ex 20:13; CCC 2271). Of course, the situations you mention are extraordinarily difficult – such as when the pregnancy threatens the mother’s life, when a child is conceived as a result of rape or incest, or when the child is severely disabled. These hardships should not be minimized; they require a great deal of compassion. But as difficult and tragic as they may be, such circumstances do not justify killing an innocent human being.
A distinction, however, must be made between a direct abortion (i.e., the intentional killing of an unborn child) and an indirect abortion. An indirect abortion occurs when an unborn child’s death is an unintentional and indirect consequence of a necessary medical intervention to treat a dangerous and potentially life-threatening condition.
"...not with a bang but a whimper."
These are deliberate and very brazen anti-Catholic psy-ops against the church. Planned and well thought out by anti-Catholic forces and sworn enemies of the church.
How sad indeed. My beloved Buffalo Bills run their training camp there. Will they have to change their name to Fisher College now? Might as well make a clean break with things religious. The secularization of America rumbles on...
This is sad. How many Catholic alumni will be left without an alma matter of which to be proud?
Liberals are a cancer to our religious institutions.
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