Md. cardinal to boycott Giuliani speech (Life issue)

AP ^ | 5-18-05

[Dan from Michigan]

Md. cardinal to boycott Giuliani speech
5/18/2005, 11:11 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

BALTIMORE (AP) — Cardinal William Keeler will not attend a Jesuit university commencement because keynote speaker Rudolph Giuliani, a Catholic, supports abortion rights, an official said Wednesday.

Giuliani, the Republican former New York City mayor mentioned as a possible candidate for president in 2008, is expected to award some 1,600 degrees and certificates at Friday's commencement at Loyola College of Maryland.

He also is to receive an honorary degree.

Friday's graduating class entered the school one week before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said Loyola spokesman Mark Kelly.

"The attacks had a huge effect on this class, many of whom are from New York," Kelly said late Wednesday. "The college selected Mayor Giuliani because of his courage and leadership after the attacks."

Kelly added Loyola does not agree with every position held by every speaker.

Keeler could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. His spokesman did not elaborate on the decision, but confirmed it was because of Giuliani's abortion stance.

The Cardinal Newman Society is planning protests, the group said in a statement.

The society is protesting speakers and honorees at 18 Catholic college and universities, saying the invitations violate the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops statement last year asserting "Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles."

Earlier this week, New York Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, also a Catholic, canceled his speech to graduates of St. Elizabeth's College of Nursing after learning a bishop opposed his appearance. Boehlert said he did not want to draw attention from the graduation ceremony.

A spokeswoman for Giuliani did not immediately return phone calls.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Well, some small progress in the midst of the madness. Perhaps the recent trips to Rome for the funeral of John Paul II and the election of the new pope infused some orthodox Catholic Viagra into the Cardinal. This is a welcome development.

It would help if ALL of the Cardinals and Bishops would take a more active interest in encouraging Catholic-friendly education at Catholic colleges and discouraging the silly liberal secular humanist anti-Catholic agenda being imposed on the faithful.

At any rate, Christ's Blessings to Cardinal Keeler.
WELCOME HOME!!!

Feel's better there, doesn't it?

IHS+

[BlackElk]

A blatant act of Catholicism by William Cardinal Keeler. Perhaps a first. A few more and it will be believable that the cafeteria may actually be closed.

[BlackElk]

No one ever accused Danson of having three brain cells to rub together. Dennehy ought to be ashamed f himself. Does he need work that badly????

[BlackElk]

If you ever convert to Catholicism, it might even become your business. Very unlikely. of course.

If Unbeliever University should allow Fr. Groeschel to speak, you can boycott. It will be OK with Catholics if you do not that it would be any of OUR business.

[Torie]

How have you been Elk? I have missed you.

[Nonstatist]

Cardinal Keeler is a theologian, not a politician. I doubt he's trying to win brownie points with the chattering class, anyhows. His "principles" are ostensibly more than just political posturing, one would hope.

[BlackElk]

Torie: It won't be as though any Catholics will really care whether you are pleased or not with our Church which is not your own.

[Torie]

You are not Catholic either. How dare you comment on matters internal to Catholics. :) I hope this note finds you well. Don't be a stranger. I remember fondly our days together when Go Pat Go was popular.

[Nonstatist]

who will not be speaking about abortion

I mean, its a Jesuit University Commencement, for crying out loud. Whats Guliani gonna be talking about, anyway, the stock market?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

BlackElk wrote: A blatant act of Catholicism by William Cardinal Keeler. Perhaps a first. A few more and it will be believable that the cafeteria may actually be closed.

The biting sarcasm and irony is killing me. LOL!

I was thinking something similar but, in the spirit of St. Malachy, decided to go with the olive branch.

[Torie]

Maybe just wars or something. Who knows?

[Nonstatist]

You are not Catholic either.

LOL! You got me! Oh well, I guess I have opinions on everything.. Nice seeing you around here again.... Hey, how bout dem judges?

[BlackElk]

SS: I have an idea: Keep the cafeteria closed and have Church authorities purge anyone trying to pry it open.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

That must have been some pep talk Benedict gave at the conclave. Or the first miracle of St. John Paul the Great ?

[Torie]

I am a read meat conservative on that one. Unusual for me, but there you have it. I want, inter alia, gay marriage to be enacted by legislatures, not by the Robes. Roe v Wade has to go too, for the same reason. It simply is toxic to the public square to resolve divisive social issues that way. The side that loses to the Robes feels screwed, and disenfranchised, for good reason, because they were/are/will be.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

and a gun grabber too. 7 posted on 05/19/2005 12:49:15 AM EDT by Graybeard58

Thank you! LOL! I NEEDED that.

Just spilled some beer...

[Nonstatist]

I'm with you. I'm a little leery about what will happen to the fillibuster rule on legislation if the Dems take over agin (God forbid), if the republicans win with the "nuclear" option, but I dont think Frist has much choice at this point. In for a dime, in for a dollar.

[BlackElk]

B-16 can make life really miserable for the leftists who dishonor the name of St. Ignatius Loyola. Hopefully he will. Doubters can ask Thomas Reese, SJ, immediate FORMER editor of America magazine, an antiCatholic Jesuit rag.

[BlackElk]

Do you think that Keeler is on such a roll that he might consider stopping the lesbian classes at Loyola Girls' High in Baltimore that Alan Keyes was railing against a decade ago? It might be that Keyes's daughter was led astray by that bunch.

[Torie]

I have always opposed the filibuster, whether for legislation or now, judges, since about the time I learned to read. Within the Constitution, I think the majority government should have its way and day. If they F up, vote them out. It works OK in the rest of the Anglospere, without tyranny, and it would work here. It is an accountability thingie, with no excuses.