Posted on 07/25/2002 8:39:45 AM PDT by heyheyhey
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Former congressman Leon Panetta was among eight people appointed Wednesday to a review board that will monitor Catholic Church leaders in the United States as they implement a new clerical sex abuse policy.
William Burleigh, chairman and former CEO of E.W. Scripps Co.; Nicholas Cafardi, Duquesne University law school dean and ex-legal counsel for the Pittsburgh diocese; Jane Chiles, former executive director of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky; Alice Bourke Hayes, president of the University of San Diego; Pamela Hayes, a New York City lawyer; Paul McHugh, director of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University medical school; and Ray Siegfriend II, a Tulsa business leader.
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MOUNT ST. MARY’S COLLEGE (CA): Leon Panetta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, spoke on May 11. Panetta publicly supported Clinton’s position on abortion, including partial-birth abortion. During his previous tenure as a U.S. Congressman from California, Panetta had a pro-abortion voting record and co-sponsored the Freedom of Choice Act in 1990. (Protest: Dr. Jacqueline Powers Doud, President, 310-954-4011.)
Panetta also serves on the board of trustees of Santa Clara University (CA), a Jesuit university. The SCU Law Alumni Association will confer its Achievement Award on Panetta on May 17. (Protest: Rev. Paul L. Locatelli, S.J., President, plocatelli@scu.edu, 408-554-4023.)
I don't get the selection of Panetta. I see no need for any Demobortionists or Clinton hacks of any kind on any board of the "Catholic" Church. Who is making these selections and how they are made is what I would like to know. How does this happen? What kook thinks a Clinton apologist belongs on something like this? If I am wrong and secretly Panetta has been some sort of triple agent for the good guys all along, I'll amend my assessment. It just gives off that aroma of liberal halitosis we've had way too much of.
Wilton Gregory, apparently. (You can take the boy away from Bernadin, but you can't take Bernadin out of the boy!)
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