Posted on 05/11/2016 4:58:01 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
More than two dozen prominent pro-life and Catholic leaders have signed a statement urging Catholic colleges and universities “to reject the culture of death and instead stand firm in defending truth and the Catholic identity of their institutions… by refusing to honor and award speaking platforms to public advocates of abortion and same-sex marriage.”
The statement, which was released Wednesday by the Cardinal Newman Society, was prompted by “scandals” at three Catholic universities that are honoring people who openly defy Catholic teaching, including Vice President Joe Biden.
Signatories include Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage; Jennifer Kimball Watson, director of the Culture of Life Foundation; and Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com.
The University of Notre Dame will award its prestigious Laetare Medal to Biden, the nation’s highest-ranking pro-abortion Catholic, at its commencement ceremony in South Bend, Indiana on May 15th. Biden will share the award with former House Speaker John Boehner.
Notre Dame’s Department of Gender Studies also invited former state Sen. Wendy Davis, who gained nationwide attention in 2013 for filibustering a pro-life bill in the Texas legislature, to speak on campus last month. Davis reportedly told students that she aborted her unborn daughter, who had genetic deformities, “out of love” – and that pro-life values should not be “imposed” on other people.
In 2009, the university invited President Obama - who is currently using the Affordable Care Act to force Catholic institutions, including Notre Dame, to pay for contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs contrary to church teaching - to give its commencement address and receive an honorary law degree.
This is why I root against Notre Dame no matter who they’re playing.
It always amazed me that there could be a subgroup called ‘Priests for life.’ It would be like a group called ‘hedgefunds for profit’ or ‘golfers for low scores.’ I would expect that ALL priests were pro life.
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