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Catholic Universities Blast Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision
Catholic News Agency ^ | 6/30/23 | Peter Pinedo

Posted on 07/07/2023 6:50:36 PM PDT by marshmallow

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 30, 2023 / 14:30 pm The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) as well as numerous Catholic universities blasted the U.S. Supreme Court’s Thursday decision to overturn affirmative action in higher education.

In a June 29 press release, the ACCU called the court’s decision “more than disappointing,” saying that it ignores “the more-than-apparent effects of continued racism in our society.”

In a controversial 6-3 decision penned by Chief Justice John Roberts, the nation’s highest court effectively struck down public and private universities’ ability to include race-based affirmative action in their admissions decisions.

“In doing so,” the ACCU said, the court “undermines the work that higher education has voluntarily taken on for many decades to be a solution in a society that provides too few solutions for this social evil [racism].”

The ACCU, the self-described “voice of Catholic higher education,” said that “within the bounds articulated by this latest decision” it would continue to be guided by Catholic social teaching “to create paths by which those in society who do not have opportunity find it at our institutions.”

For decades, many universities have used affirmative action in their admissions programs to increase minority representation on their campuses. However, some have argued that affirmative action promotes the admission of certain ethnic minorities at the expense of others, often negatively impacting Asian students.

In the ruling, Roberts wrote that “Harvard’s consideration of race has led to an 11.1% decrease in the number of Asian-Americans admitted to Harvard.”

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; catholic; donatefreerepublic; education
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1 posted on 07/07/2023 6:50:36 PM PDT by marshmallow
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Catholics need to ask themselves why they’re afraid to open their classes up to Asians who will mop the floor with their Irish students. Black kids will do just fine in schools that accept them on merit...


2 posted on 07/07/2023 6:58:52 PM PDT by GOPJ (Stop 'gun violence' by stopping and incarcerating criminals.)
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Should they have quotas for Jews, Buddhists, Muslims....?


3 posted on 07/07/2023 7:02:20 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: GOPJ

Irish students ?

What about the other people with European ethnicity.

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4 posted on 07/07/2023 7:03:39 PM PDT by Mears (.)
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To: marshmallow

The RCC anti human since the 1st century AD. The same people who are spending billions flooding western nations with refugees who hate white people, that tells me all I need to know. Now they want racism to continue. Pitting one side, one race, one religion, one person against another since the birth of that abomination. That is the RCC.


5 posted on 07/07/2023 7:04:18 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: GOPJ

It is not Catholics so much as these fake orgs that put the word Catholic in their name. Yes, lots of catholics are democrats but not all and maybe not even 50%.


6 posted on 07/07/2023 7:09:07 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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You’re right. Insightful.


7 posted on 07/07/2023 7:14:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (Stop 'gun violence' by stopping and incarcerating criminals.)
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To: marshmallow

Only 26 of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities’(ACCU) 197 U.S. Catholic colleges and universities made it onto the Newman Guide’s recommended list this year. These 26 colleges all teach theology, ethics, and reasoning. They all have strict rules governing campus life. They all have vibrant campus ministry and a strong Catholic culture. Rather than embrace society’s prevalent culture, these schools are truly counter-cultural.
https://cardinalnewmansociety.org/the-newman-guide/

How can you secure truly faithful Catholic education for your family?

Explore The Newman Guide.

Since 2007, The Cardinal Newman Society has recognized model Catholic colleges in The Newman Guide and has earned a trusted reputation for vigorously vetting Catholic colleges, ensuring they have strong policies and standards that uphold Catholic identity from academics and athletics to faculty hiring and campus life.

In 2023, we expanded The Newman Guide—which reaches more than 75,000 families online each year—to include faithful Catholic elementary, secondary, and graduate school options for Catholic families.

The Newman Guide helps Catholic parents and students find a pathway to a seamless faithful Catholic education, and it recognizes model institutions that refuse to compromise their Catholic mission.


8 posted on 07/07/2023 7:19:45 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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There are a lot of reasons I’m not a practicing catholic anymore....my beliefs and my faith have not changed...the catholic church has abandoned me and my faith....but my faith has not wavered, nor will it.


9 posted on 07/07/2023 7:23:20 PM PDT by Spaceman61
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Catholic schools need to worry about all the progressives and anti-catholics they hire...Michael Smalanskas supported traditional marriage at a “”catholic college”” and was threatened with rape and death...The liberal catholic priest running it sided with the terrorists.......


10 posted on 07/07/2023 7:23:53 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: marshmallow

Catholic universities want to discriminate against Asians, white Jews and males.


11 posted on 07/07/2023 7:28:55 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: marshmallow
It's all about increasing their congregations. The Catholics are in a panic over their plunging numbers:


12 posted on 07/07/2023 7:31:03 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: marshmallow

Once again the Catholic hierarchy show its true Marxist/leftist values and its hatred for what made the USA great. The Catholic Church is far more comfortable with oppressive dictatorships than with free people and is working as faithfully as the legacy media to support the Democrat’s headlong rush to tyranny.


13 posted on 07/07/2023 7:39:30 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: marshmallow

There are no hyphenated Catholics.


14 posted on 07/07/2023 7:42:00 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: marshmallow

What everyone seems to miss is that the solution is to help youth become better prepared to compete. But failed educators are blind to the obvious solutions.


15 posted on 07/07/2023 7:47:31 PM PDT by JustTheTruth
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To: marshmallow

Baloney!


16 posted on 07/07/2023 7:48:21 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: marshmallow

They have a weird definition of voluntary.


17 posted on 07/07/2023 7:57:54 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: marshmallow

Guessing that few or none of these schools are actually Catholic? Also, why do they hate Asians so much?


18 posted on 07/07/2023 8:47:13 PM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: jonrick46

This ends in 2017. 6 years later today, it is probably in single digits for the age group 21-29.


19 posted on 07/07/2023 10:10:35 PM PDT by nwrep
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You never up-to-date polls when you need them. I am sure the plot trends to the low 20s.


20 posted on 07/07/2023 10:13:35 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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