Posted on 06/13/2022 7:35:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
'Notre Dame fails to provide witness to its Catholic mission when its public-facing offices elevate false and immoral arguments in one of the most important moral debates before us,' the school's pro-life organization wrote in response.
NOTRE DAME, Indiana (LifeSiteNews) — For years, the University of Notre Dame has compromised its Catholic identity through association by taking stands at odds with the Bible on issues such as homosexuality and contraception, and in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s potential overturn of Roe v. Wade this summer, some of the school’s professors have engaged in arguably the most overt break from Catholic principles yet.
Current Notre Dame Right to Life president Merlot Fogarty, president emerita Francine Shaft, and former executive board member Sean Tehan have taken to the pages of National Review to raise awareness of three professors’ recent forays into pro-abortion advocacy in anticipation of the Court’s upcoming decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which a leak last month suggests will finally overturn Roe and restore the American people’s ability to vote directly on abortion policy.
On May 4, Notre Dame global affairs professors Tamara Kay and Susan Ostermann published an essay in left-wing Salon claiming that prohibiting abortion would constitute “violence against women,” “irreparable harm,” and “traumatic sexual abuse,” whereas “abortion access” is “[c]onsistent with integral human development that emphasizes social justice and human dignity” and “respects the inherent dignity of women.”
Two days later, Kay and Ostermann published another essay at the Los Angeles Times, this time with sociologist Tricia Bruce, an affiliate of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society. That piece attempts to make the case that “[a]bortion saves women’s lives,” in the process repeating the dubious, claim that “outlawing abortion does not actually reduce it.”
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Paradoxical institution of men who claim to represent God. Go figure?
For years, Richard McBrien, chairman of Notre Dame’s theology department, was the News Media’s go-to guy when they needed a quote from a bad Catholic to attack the Church.
I’m happy to see that the university still has a few practicing Catholics attending there.
Tragic misuse of their office to protect God’s children…
Catholic laity
Rise up y’all
Please
That’s very common in Dixie
Ole Miss for damn sure the kids aren’t as left as the faculty
When I was there late 70s faculty was right wing and libertarian and a few liberals
The phony formerly Catholic little school on the Saint Joseph River now doesn’t even bother to fake its Anti-Catholic positions.
Fake phony frauds.
I found Notre Dame an excellent educational choice for exactly that reason. The place is not a bubble and kids need to know how to engage ideas.
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