Catholic Higher Education Alert [Nov. 1, 2004]

Tomorrow’s election is important – don’t forget to vote! – but your opinion also has great importance for the future of Catholic higher education. On this great Solemnity of All Saints, Cardinal Newman Society urges you to join us in prayer before expressing concern (and in a few cases, great joy) in response to the following news items. May God bless you for your witness!

You may recall that in June, the U.S. bishops issued a statement on “Catholics in Political Life” that included the following policy: “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” You will notice below several violations of this policy, with the colleges effectively thumbing their noses at the bishops. Please don’t forget to mention this when contacting college presidents.

TOP OF THE NEWS * Drinan Honored at Boston College * Catholic U. President Defends Speaker Policy * Catholic U. Approves NAACP Chapter * Loyola-Chicago Accused of Abortions * Madigan Honored at Loyola-Chicago

EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS * Register Concludes Mandatum Series * Canadian Bishops to Implement Ex Corde Ecclesiae

CATHOLIC CAMPUS NEWS * Planned Parenthood Seminar at Bellarmine * Obama Speaks at Benedictine U. * Dean Speaks at Boston College * Coming Out Week at Boston College * Frank Speaks at Boston College * Homosexual Employees Organize at Boston College * Holy Cross (MA) Students Back Abortion, Gay Marriage * Kerry Fundraiser at St. Catherine * Gay Friendship Talk at Fordham * Students Challenge Kerry in Steubenville * Gore Speaks at Georgetown * Gonzaga Sponsors Homosexual Center * Gay Marriage Talk at Gonzaga * Gay Partners Speak at John Carroll * Dean, Nader Speak at Loyola-Chicago * Mercyhurst President Accused of Sexual Abuse * Rainbow Week at St. Joseph’s U. * U. Notre Dame Bans Homosexual Display * Pro-Life Display Vandalized at U. Notre Dame * U. Notre Dame Students Pro-Life, Back Gay Unions * Gay Activist Speaks at San Diego * Villanova Honors Anglican Tutu ____________________________

[Top of the News] DRINAN HONORED AT BOSTON COLLEGE Celebrating its 75th anniversary on October 4, Boston College Law School presented its first Distinguished Service Medal to Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J. Despite the Vatican’s opposition, Drinan served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts from 1971-1981, opposing numerous efforts to ban federal funding of abortions. In 1996, Drinan published articles in the National Catholic Reporter and the New York Times supporting President Bill Clinton’s veto of a partial-birth abortion ban. Drinan is a former president and current member of the Board of Directors of Americans for Democratic Action, a leftist organization that favors pro-abortion politicians and laws.

CONTACT: Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., President, Boston College, Botolph House, 18 Old Colony Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; (617)-552-3250; william.leahy.1@bc.edu. ____________________________

[Top of the News] CATHOLIC U. PRESIDENT DEFENDS SPEAKER POLICY Very Rev. David O’Connell, C.M., president of the Catholic University of America, is under fire from faculty and students because of his principled and courageous enforcement of a policy banning pro-abortion advocates from speaking on campus. Two-thirds of ordinary professors in the School of Arts and Sciences have signed a statement criticizing the speaker policy as a violation of academic freedom. More than 100 students staged a sit-in to protest the policy on October 13.

The furor began when O’Connell prevented university officials and faculty from hosting actor Stanley Tucci, an activist for abortion rights and Planned Parenthood, to speak at an event celebrating Italian cinema on September 14. In the weeks before the November elections, the university also has banned political speakers from both parties to avoid the appearance of partiality.

CONTACT: Very Rev. David O’Connell, C.M., President, Catholic University of America, 620 Michigan Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20064; (202) 319-5100; E-mail: president@cua.edu. ____________________________

[Top of the News] CATHOLIC U. APPROVES NAACP CHAPTER The Catholic University of America has reversed its ban on a student chapter of the NAACP following a threatened lawsuit from the civil rights organization.

In the spring, university president Very Rev. David O’Connell, C.M., prevented students from forming a NAACP chapter because, in part, the NAACP’s National Board of Directors had passed a unanimous resolution in February supporting abortion rights and endorsed a pro-abortion march in April. The NAACP now claims that its board of directors no longer holds a position on abortion and the issue was never considered by NAACP’s full membership. But the NAACP has never announced a formal retraction of its board resolution, which by contrast was publicly announced in two press releases in February and April and a Black Enterprise magazine article. Nothing prevents the NAACP board from once again supporting pro-abortion events and activities.

There are other concerns. The NAACP has opposed federal funding for religious organizations that lawfully “discriminate” based on religion when hiring employees -- a key element of President George W. Bush’s “faith-based initiative.” In February, NAACP chairman Julian Bond joined African-American gay and lesbian activists in support of homosexual “marriage.” The NAACP website links to radical organizations including the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, the National Organization for Women and People for the American Way.

Cardinal Newman Society had supported O’Connell’s prior decision to ban a student chapter of the NAACP. But O’Connell has accepted a compromise that allows the chapter so long as the chapter -- with the approval of the national NAACP -- complies with the Catholic University of America’s policies against pro-abortion activity regardless of the national NAACP’s position. In principle, the same compromise could open the door to chapters of other national pro-abortion organizations like the National Organization for Women.

In September, Cardinal Newman Society issued a public statement supporting the university’s refusal to admit a NAACP chapter. The statement was signed by 13 African-American leaders of pro-life organizations and Black Catholic ministries. They include Day Gardner, director of Black Americans for Life and a former Miss America Pageant finalist; Gloria Purvis, spokesperson for Black Catholics for Life; Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, founder and director of the Christian evangelization and apologetics program Aurem Cordis; and leaders of diocesan ministries to African Americans in eight states.

“It would be hypocritical for a Catholic institution to host and support a chapter of a national organization that declares the willful destruction of human life to be a ‘civil right,’” Cardinal Newman Society declared in September, before the Catholic University of America did just that.

[Top of the News] LOYOLA-CHICAGO ACCUSED OF ABORTIONS Former nurse and pro-life advocate Jill Stanek has publicly accused the Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago of performing “live-birth abortions” on children with severe disabilities. The hospital has admitted a policy of allowing doctors to induce early labor in rare circumstances, but it defends the practice as moral.

According to a statement issued by Loyola: “Early induction is performed at LUHS only if the fetus has reached 24 weeks of gestation—currently accepted as the stage of viability—which is consistent with the [U.S. bishops’] Ethical and Religious Directives for Health Care Services. In addition, early induction for fetuses with anomalies is only performed at Loyola if the fetus has anencephaly or Potter’s disease (underdevelopment of the brain and kidneys, respectively). Both of these conditions are fatal to the fetus.”

But induced birth at the 24th week of gestation promises a premature death for babies with anencephaly or Potter’s Disease. These babies rarely survive long after birth, and early induction can significantly hasten their death. Often the justification for the procedure is not danger to the mother’s life or even her physical health, but to relieve her psychological distress.

Loyola claims the U.S. bishops’ health care directives allow the practice. The directives state, “For proportionate reason, labor may be induced after the fetus is viable.” But giving a mother peace of mind is hardly proportionate to causing a child’s premature death.

Stanek refers to a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) statement that clearly questions early induction of babies simply because of physical deformity, even one that is fatal: “Some have attempted to argue that anencephalic children may be prematurely delivered, even when this would be inappropriate for other children. …Doubts about the human dignity of the anencephalic infant, however, have no solid ground, and the benefit of any doubt must be in the child’s favor” (“Moral Principles Concerning Infants With Anencephaly,” USCCB).

In a similar statement dated March 2004, the National Catholic Bioethics Center states: “[E]arly induction of an anencephalic child when there is no serious pathology of the mother which is being directly treated is not morally licit, emotional distress notwithstanding. Early induction of labor before term (37 weeks) to relieve emotional distress hastens the death of the child as a means of achieving this presumed good effect and unjustifiably deprives the child of the good of gestation. …[I]nduction of labor before term performed simply for the reason that the child has a lethal anomaly is direct abortion.”

CONTACT: Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., President, Loyola University of Chicago, 820 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 915-6400; mgaranz@luc.edu. ____________________________

[Top of the News] MADIGAN HONORED AT LOYOLA-CHICAGO The alumni association of the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law presented its St. Robert Bellarmine Award to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a strong proponent of abortion rights and “gay rights”, at an awards presentation and reunion dinner on October 30. As an Illinois senator, Madigan sponsored and voted for pro-abortion legislation and voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. She also led an attack on “phony” crisis pregnancy centers for refusing to offer abortions or abortion referrals. Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki, an adjunct professor at Loyola’s law school, urged the alumni association to rescind the invitation and the university to oppose the award.

CONTACT: Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., President, Loyola University of Chicago, 820 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 915-6400; mgaranz@luc.edu. ____________________________

[Events & Announcements] REGISTER CONCLUDES MANDATUM SERIES The National Catholic Register has wrapped up its investigative series on implementation of the mandatum for Catholic theology professors. The Register reports that “more than two years after the U.S. deadline for bishops to require the mandatum, many bishops have yet to require it or even to grant it after theology professors have voluntarily requested it.” It also states that students or parents of students at Catholic institutions are no closer to learning which theology professors have accepted the mandatum than they were when it was first required in the 1983 Code of Canon Law. The entire Mandatum Secrecy Series is posted at http://www.ncregister.com/features/mandatum.htm. ____________________________

[Events & Announcements] CANADIAN BISHOPS TO IMPLEMENT EX CORDE ECCLESIAE More than a decade after Pope John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae in 1993, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) has completed and received Vatican approval for ordinances to implement the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education. Cardinal Newman Society has not had an opportunity to review the ordinances, which the CCCB says will be released publicly “in the near future.” The 18 Catholic colleges and universities in Canada will have until August 2005 to comply with the new ordinances. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] PLANNED PARENTHOOD SEMINAR AT BELLARMINE On September 21, Planned Parenthood representative Karen Hess presented information on “family planning,” including methods for preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, in the Bellarmine University President’s Dining Room. The event was promoted in e-mails from Alice Kimble, director of Sport, Recreation, and Fitness Center and Health Services at Bellarmine.

CONTACT: Dr. Joseph J. McGowan, President, Bellarmine University, 2001 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY 40205; (502) 452-8301; jmcgowan@bellarmine.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] OBAMA SPEAKS AT BENEDICTINE U. Benedictine University hosted Barak Obama, pro-abortion Illinois candidate for U.S. Senate, to speak to students and guests on October 5. During his speech, Obama argued for keeping abortion legal. As a state senator, Obama opposed legislation that would have required doctors to provide medical care to babies that were born alive during an abortion procedure. He also opposes a constitutional amendment banning homosexual “marriage.”

CONTACT: Dr. William Carroll, President, Benedictine University, 5700 College Road, Lisle, IL 60532; (630) 829-6004; wcarroll@ben.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] DEAN SPEAKS AT BOSTON COLLEGE Pro-abortion former presidential candidate Howard Dean spoke at a campus event co-sponsored by the Boston College Democrats, the College Democrats of Massachusetts, and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College on October 5. His speech criticized President George W. Bush and advocated the election of John Kerry. Dean is an advocate of abortion rights and homosexual marriage.

CONTACT: Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., President, Boston College, Botolph House, 18 Old Colony Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; (617)-552-3250; william.leahy.1@bc.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] COMING OUT WEEK AT BOSTON COLLEGE Boston College’s Office of Residential Life, Women’s Resource Center, GLBTI Council of the Undergraduate Government and other student groups at Boston College co-sponsored Coming Out Week from October 11-18 to celebrate homosexuality and gay rights. Activities included distributing rainbow-colored ribbons and discussions of students’ “coming out” experiences.

CONTACT: Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., President, Boston College, Botolph House, 18 Old Colony Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; (617)-552-3250; william.leahy.1@bc.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] FRANK SPEAKS AT BOSTON COLLEGE On October 17, Congressman Barney Frank, one of the first openly gay members of Congress and a proponent for abortion rights, appeared as the third speaker in a “Progressive Speaker Series” hosted by the Boston College Democrats. Frank used the opportunity to attack President Bush’s policies and the Bush administration’s attempt to force a series of religious values on America.

CONTACT: Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., President, Boston College, Botolph House, 18 Old Colony Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; (617)-552-3250; william.leahy.1@bc.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] HOMOSEXUAL EMPLOYEES ORGANIZE AT BOSTON COLLEGE Boston College employees have formed the Lesbian and Gay Faculty, Staff and Administrators Association of B.C. (LGFSAA) to “offer one another moral support and to talk about shared concerns,” which include employee benefits for homosexual partners. LGFSAA member and theology professor John McDargh told the college newspaper, The Heights, that members of the group “draw inspiration for this work from the fundamental values of B.C.’s Jesuit and Catholic heritage.”

CONTACT: Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., President, Boston College, Botolph House, 18 Old Colony Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; (617)-552-3250; william.leahy.1@bc.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] HOLY CROSS (MA) STUDENTS BACK ABORTION, GAY MARRIAGE A survey of students at the College of the Holy Cross found significant support for abortion and homosexual “marriage.” The Holy Cross Student Survey, conducted in spring 2004 and released this month, found that 72 percent of students support “gay marriage” and 86 percent support laws permitting civil unions of homosexual couples. In addition, 35 percent agree that women “should always be able to obtain an abortion as a matter of personal choice,” 21 percent support legal abortion in most circumstances “after the need for the abortion has been clearly established,” 33 percent would allow abortion only in cases of rape, incest and when the mother’s life is endangered, and only 10 percent would ban abortion in all circumstances.

CONTACT: Rev. Michael McFarland, S.J., President, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College St., Worcester, MA 01610; (508) 793-2011; mmcfarla@holycross.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] KERRY FUNDRAISER AT ST. CATHERINE On October 21, Artists for Kerry hosted a fundraising event at the College of St. Catherine to support pro-abortion Sen. John Kerry’s bid for the presidency. According to the announcement by event organizers, it was meant to “inspire and mobilize Minnesotans to get out the vote on November 2 and elect John Kerry president.”

CONTACT: Sr. Andrea J. Lee, President, College of Saint Catherine, 2004 Randolph Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105; (651) 690-6525. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] GAY FRIENDSHIP TALK AT FORDHAM On October 6, Fordham University’s Center for American Catholic Studies, Chaplain’s Office, Theology Department and College at Lincoln Center sponsored a lecture by Catholic gay activist Andrew Sullivan. The topic, “Friendship: The Forgotten Relationship,” included a discussion of “the distinctive gifts of homosexual friendships.” An e-mail distributed to faculty promoting the event argued that Sullivan, a vocal critic of the Church’s teachings on homosexual activity, “can model for our students how a vigorous intellect can illuminate faith (and vice versa!).”

Contact: Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., President, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Rd., Bronx, NY 10458; (718) 817-3000; (c/o executive secretary) lmccormick@fordham.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] STUDENTS CHALLENGE KERRY IN STEUBENVILLE On September 4, nearly 500 students prayerfully marched from their campus at the Franciscan University of Steubenville to a nearby rally for pro-abortion candidate John Kerry. “We were not partisan or political,” junior Emily Bissonnette told the National Catholic Register. “Our challenge to Senator Kerry was to stand up for what the Church teaches and fully embrace the Church’s teachings on life.” ____________________________

On October 18, former Vice President Al Gore addressed Georgetown faculty and staff in a pro-Kerry campaign speech on campus. The speech was sponsored by the Georgetown Lecture Fund.

CONTACT: Dr. John DeGioia, President, Georgetown University, 37th & O Sts. NW, Washington, DC 20057; (202) 687-4134; president@georgetown.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] GONZAGA SPONSORS HOMOSEXUAL CENTER Gonzaga University has announced the addition of a Gay Lesbian Bi-Sexual Transgender (GLBT) Resource Center to its campus through the efforts of Student Activities, the Center for Community Action and Service-Learning and Unity House, a campus center to advocate tolerance and diversity. With the approval of University administrators and Gonzaga President, Rev. Robert Spitzer, the center was created to provide literature and promote discussion about sexual orientation and homosexual issues.

CONTACT: Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., President, Gonzaga University, 502 East Boone Ave., Spokane, WA 99258-0001; (509) 323-6103; president@gonzaga.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] GAY MARRIAGE TALK AT GONZAGA Gonzaga University’s “Catholicism for a New Millennium” lecture series featured Loyola University of Chicago theology professor Patricia Beattie Jung on “Gay Marriage and Civil Unions: A Catholic Reflection” on September 30. The university press release announced, “Jung will weave together several very traditional Christian moral teachings and on that very conservative basis, construct an explicitly Christian argument for same-sex marriage.”

CONTACT: Rev. Robert Spitzer, S.J., President, Gonzaga University, 502 East Boone Ave., Spokane, WA 99258-0001; (509) 323-6103; president@gonzaga.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] GAY PARTNERS SPEAK AT JOHN CARROLL On September 22, ALLIES, the homosexual/heterosexual alliance at John Carroll University, hosted “life partners” Sean Donovan and Thomas Ferrara, one of the first gay male couples “married” in the state of Massachusetts. Flyers advertising the event pictured protesters with signs reading “Gay Marriage is our Right” and “I support Trans equality.”

CONTACT: Rev. Edward Glynn, S.J., President, John Carroll University, 20700 North Park Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118; (216) 397-4281; eglynn@jcu.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] DEAN, NADER SPEAK AT LOYOLA-CHICAGO On September 1, former presidential candidate Howard Dean was invited to speak on the implications of the 2004 presidential election at an event sponsored by the Student Activities Fund and the College Democrats. Dean is an advocate of abortion rights and homosexual marriage. On September 14, presidential candidate Ralph Nader, an advocate of abortion rights, held a campaign event for students, faculty and other guests in Loyola’s Mundelein Auditorium. Dr. Elizabeth Coughlin, chairwoman of the Department of Communications, helped facilitate the event, which was sponsored by the Nader campaign.

CONTACT: Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J., President, Loyola University of Chicago, 820 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 915-6400; mgaranz@luc.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] MERCYHURST PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE Four men have publicly accused Mercyhurst College President William Garvey of sexually abusing them more than 30 years ago when Garvey coached a Catholic school basketball team. Mercyhurst called the allegations “fictitious, malicious and gossip” but has hired “professionals” to review the charges, which Garvey says are untrue. “I can only hope and trust that my 52-year record of working with youth without any similar allegations and the positive testimony from players I have coached and the more than 2,000 students I have taught will be instructive in resolving this distressing situation,” Garvey told the Erie Times-News. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] RAINBOW WEEK AT ST. JOSEPH’S U. A Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph’s University on October 10 to kick off Rainbow Week, a celebration of gay rights. Events included a panel discussion on “Perspectives on Gay Marriage: Personal, Legal and Religious” featuring a homosexual couple and two “civil rights” advocates. Also participating was Rev. Vincent Genovesi, S.J., a theology professor and director of Pre-Cana programs on campus.

CONTACT: Rev. Timothy R. Lannon, S.J., President, St. Joseph’s University, 5600 City Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19131; (610) 660-1200; timothy.lannon@sju.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] U. NOTRE DAME BANS HOMOSEXUAL DISPLAY The University of Notre Dame prevented homosexual students from displaying a large “coming out closet” on campus on October 12 because the sponsoring organization, Alliance N.D., is not an officially recognized student club. The Graduate Student Union was to co-sponsor the display. Alliance N.D. did succeed in distributing orange armbands at a Notre Dame football game to celebrate National Coming Out Day.

CONTACT: Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; (574) 631-3903; malloy.5@nd.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] PRO-LIFE DISPLAY VANDALIZED AT U. NOTRE DAME Three-quarters of the 1,200 crosses displayed by pro-life students at the University of Notre Dame were knocked down or damaged by vandals on October 8. The “Cemetary of the Innocents” was intended to remind students of the innocent children killed by abortion. The university declined requests to issue a statement on the vandalism.

CONTACT: Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; (574) 631-3903; malloy.5@nd.edu. ____________________________

U. NOTRE DAME STUDENTS PRO-LIFE, BACK GAY UNIONS A survey of students at the University of Notre Dame found nearly 70 percent support legal recognition of civil unions for homosexual couples. But a majority of students -- 55 percent of women and 67 percent of men -- said they are pro-life and not pro-choice on abortion. The random survey was conducted by students under the direction of two political science professors.

CONTACT: Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556; (574) 631-3903; malloy.5@nd.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] GAY ACTIVIST SPEAKS AT SAN DIEGO On October 14, the University of San Diego welcomed abortion and homosexual rights advocate Sabrina Sojourner to speak at the conclusion of National Coming Out Week. Sojourner, the first open lesbian to be elected to the United States Congress and a former employee of the National Organization for Women, was invited to speak about diversity during the school’s weeklong celebration of gay pride.

CONTACT: Dr. Mary Lyons, President, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492; (619) 260-4520; mlyons@sandiego.edu. ____________________________

[Catholic Campus News] VILLANOVA HONORS ANGLICAN TUTU Villanova University bestowed its Adela Dwyer-St. Thomas of Villanova Peace Award on Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa on October 7. Tutu has advocated abortion in limited circumstances including cases of rape and incest, and has publicly criticized the Vatican for its opposition to artificial birth control.

CONTACT: Rev. Edmund Dobbin, OSA, President, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085; (610) 519-4500; Edmund.dobbin@villanova.edu.

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EVENTS

First Semester Recap:

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

Movie Night

Washington D.C. AIDS Walk

"The Queer Monologues"

The "Real" Girl Drag Show

Browns vs. Steelers Party

Second Semester Tentative Events:

Gay Film Fest

Day of Silence

Tunnel of Oppression

"The Queer Monologues: The Abridged Classroom Version"

The First National Gay and Lesbian Conference

for Jesuit Universities - at John Carroll

SPECIAL REPORT
Political Donations by Catholic University Employees (10/21/04)

A Cardinal Newman Society review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports listing donors to the Bush and Kerry presidential campaigns identifies employees at 10 leading Catholic universities giving $196,025 to support Sen. John Kerry. That is more than nine times the amount given to support President George W. Bush for reelection—a total of just $21,200.

The overwhelming support for Kerry among Catholic university employees stands in contrast to national polls showing self-identified Catholics more or less evenly divided over Bush and Kerry. In addition, Kerry’s campaign has been indirectly challenged by the Vatican and Catholic bishops who have cautioned Catholics against voting for candidates who support abortion rights.

More than half of the Catholic university employee gifts to the Kerry campaign—a total of $116,915—came from Georgetown University, where employees gave just $7,000 to the Bush campaign. In its reports to the FEC, the Kerry campaign identifies 90 donors at Georgetown including James Welsh, Assistant Vice President for Student Health; former Law Center Dean Judith Areen (who became a full-time professor on July 1); Law Center Associate Deans James Feinerman and Vicki Jackson; Public Policy Institute Dean Judith Feder; Scott Fleming, Assistant to the President for Federal Relations; and Catholic chaplain John Sauer, S.J. The Bush campaign reports just five donors at Georgetown, including one university official, Medical Center Assistant Dean Irma Frank.

The study focuses on ten of the largest Catholic universities based on undergraduate enrollment. They include Boston College (employees reportedly gave $17,000 to Kerry and none to Bush), DePaul University (Kerry $7,950, Bush $250), Duquesne University (Kerry $1,350, Bush $200), Fordham University (Kerry $19,460, Bush $4,000), Loyola University of Chicago (Kerry $6,300, Bush $700), Marquette University (Kerry $1,200, Bush $1,200), St. John’s University of New York (Kerry $2,750, Bush $750), St. Louis University (Kerry $7,750, Bush $3,500) and the University of Notre Dame (Kerry $15,350, Bush $3,600).

In addition to Georgetown University officials, notable university employees listed in the FEC reports include:

Jack Brooks, dean of Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences ($200 to Kerry);
Steve Cottingham, associate vice president and general counsel of Marquette University ($200 to Bush);
John Garvey, dean of Boston College Law School ($1,500 to Kerry);
Patrick Keating, Executive Vice President of Boston College ($250 to Kerry);
Michael Mezey, dean of DePaul University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ($250 to Kerry);
John Nagle, associate dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School ($350 to Bush);
William Presutti, associate dean of Duquesne University’s Graduate School of Business ($250 to Kerry);
Mark Roche, dean of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame ($500 to Kerry);
Elizabeth Rosselot, assistant dean of Boston College Law School ($500 to Kerry);
Michael Smyer, associate vice president and dean of Boston College’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ($300 to Kerry);
Peter Stace, vice president for enrollment services at Fordham University ($250 to Kerry);
Peter Tobin, former dean of St. John’s University’s College of Business and now special assistant to the president ($500 to Bush);
Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College ($500 to Kerry); and
Norah Wylie, associate dean for students at Boston College Law School ($700 to Kerry).

The complete list of Catholic university employee donations to the Bush and Kerry campaigns, as reported to the FEC, click on these links:

CONTRIBUTIONS TO BUSH CAMPAIGN (as of 10/21/04)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO KERRY CAMPAIGN (as of 10/21/04)

Kerry 2004 Contributions

(Note: Cardinal Newman Society is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization for educational and religious purposes. It does not endorse or oppose candidates for public office.)

(Executive Summary) Culture of Death on Catholic Campuses: A Five-Year Review

(Full Report) Culture of Death on Catholic Campuses: A Five-Year Review

2004 Commencement Speaker Protest (4/28/04)
Cardinal Newman Society, conducting its annual review of commencement speakers and honorees at Catholic colleges, has thus far identified 24 inappropriate invitations, many of them to public abortion-rights advocates. FULL TEXT

2004 'Vagina Monologues' Protest (4/28/04)
Cardinal Newman Society has placed full-page advertisements in USA Today, the national edition of The Washington Times, and the National Catholic Register as part of a nationwide protest of “The Vagina Monologues,” a vulgar and sexually explicit play that has been performed or is planned for at least 30 Catholic campuses in February and March. FULL TEXT

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