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The New York Post reports that Fordham University concealed its decision to honor New York’s pro-abortion Mayor Michael Bloomberg from Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York.
Bloomberg received an honorary degree last weekend at Fordham’s commencement and also spoke briefly at the ceremony.
“Dolan was ‘unaware that the mayor was speaking/getting a degree’ at Saturday’s commencement at the Jesuit school’s Bronx campus, his spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, wrote in an e-mail yesterday,” the Post reported.
Fordham has a history of honoring pro-abortion public figures and of failing to consult with the archbishop of New York. Cardinal Edward Egan, who served as New York’s archbishop until he was succeeded last month by Archbishop Dolan, rebuked the university last fall after the Fordham School of Law bestowed an honor on pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. . .
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FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, May 20, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two days before leading in prayer a handful of University of Notre Dame graduates protesting President Obama's commencement speech, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life delivered a rousing pro-life homily at the baccalaureate Mass of Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia. Fr. Pavone remarked on the nature of abortion, which he called "the opposite of love," and President Obama, whom he said has dishonored the presidency by supporting abortion.
Fr. Pavone introduced the question of the meaning of love with a meditation on Christ's statements, "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends," and "I have power to lay it [my life] down, and I have power to take it up again."
The "power to lay down one's life," said Pavone, is "the power of love, the power to be able to give yourself away purposely, deliberately, knowing what you're going to lose ... because you're not focused anymore on what you're losing, you're focused on what you're giving to the other."
"This is the heart and core of the civilization of love, of the culture of life, of the meaning of being pro-life, of the meaning of social justice, and of the very meaning of service, all summed up in this power to lay our lives down for the other," he said.
"In the culture of death, we see exactly the opposite dynamic."
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