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I mentioned the case of Nicholas Cafardi briefly when he published an article in the National Catholic Reporter. Here's what I identified at the time as objectionable in his article: Selective reading of Faithful Citizenship which ignored key passages Despair at ever overturning Roe and exhortation that we should get over it False claim that McCain and Obama are identical on ESCR Gross overstatements about the new DNC platform's language regarding abortion False claim that reducing poverty outweighs the DNC plan to liberalize abortion legally False claim that republicans have more total moral baggage than Democrats 50+ comments later,...

Dr. Deal Hudson of "Inside Catholic" reports that Dr. Nicholas P. Cafardi, noted legal scholar, former Dean of Duquesne University Law School and now prominent Catholic supporter of the candidacy of Senator Barack Obama has just resigned from his position as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Deal reports that the President of the University, Fr. Terrence Henry, TOR,received a letter of resignation from the former Dean on Monday, October 6, 2008. Cafardi was once hailed, along with fellow legal scholar Doug Kmiec, as a leading Pro-Life voice among Catholic academics.

Nicholas P. Cafardi, a law professor and former law school dean at Duquesne University, a Catholic school in Pittsburgh, writes that as a Catholic, he is staunchly opposed to abortion. Pic of Cafardi: In fact, he calls it "an unspeakable evil." But he's voting for Barack Obama. Here is Cafardi on the topic of abortion: "Obama's support for abortion rights has led some to the conclusion that no Catholic can vote for him. That's a mistake. While I have never swayed in my conviction that abortion is an unspeakable evil, I believe that we have lost the abortion battle --...

I believe that abortion is an unspeakable evil, yet I support Sen. Barack Obama, who is pro-choice. I do not support him because he is pro-choice, but in spite of it. Is that a proper moral choice for a committed Catholic? As one of the inaugural members of the U.S. bishops' National Review Board on clergy sexual abuse, and as a canon lawyer, I answer with a resounding yes. Despite what some Republicans would like Catholics to believe, the list of what the church calls "intrinsically evil acts" does not begin and end with abortion. In fact, there are many...