Posted on 05/18/2007 7:27:58 PM PDT by rhema
(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is set to deliver a commencement address at a Jesuit, Catholic university on Saturday, but a Catholic group is calling on the school to cancel the invitation.
The Cardinal Newman Society said Pelosi's invitation should be rescinded because of her stance on abortion and so should a posthumous honorary degree for former California Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy for his views on abortion.
"Even as we celebrate the fact that a growing number of Catholic colleges are choosing exemplary commencement speakers and honorees, we learn that the University of San Francisco has chosen a much different direction," wrote the group's president, Patrick J. Reilly, in a letter to USF President Rev. Stephen Privett, S.J., on Thursday. "You are publicly allying a Catholic university with leaders of what Pope John Paul II called a 'Culture of Death,'" Reilly added.
Pelosi, who supports embryonic stem cell research and human cloning, opposes the federal ban on partial-birth abortions and parental consent for minors seeking abortion.
McCarthy, who died in February, pledged to write the Roe v. Wade ruling into federal law when he ran for the U.S. Senate in 1988 and 1992. He also supported federal funding for abortions and contraceptives and advocated distribution of the abortion pill RU-486. While serving as lieutenant governor from 1982 to 1984, he led states opposing a ban on abortion counseling at federally funded clinics, the group noted.
A Jesuit school rescind the invitation? Not going to happen. I went to a Jesuit high school and count a few Jesuits among my best friends, but this ain’t going to happen. Sad but true.
Our local Jesuit schools are very liberal and also participate in the Homosexual Day of Silence. I seriously doubt it will happen. The Jesuits need to start adhering to all the rules of the Church.
Jesuit AND Catholic. There's an oxymoron! (Boston College grad here.)
These are the same pukes who exiled Father Fessio. It’ll be a cold day in hell before they rescind their invite.
I graduated from a Jesuit University St Joseph’s in Philly 10% are homosexual!The President is from Marquette his previous stop and his ex Marquette theology Professor teaches about how Catholics can have an Abortion legally on behalf of PP...pathetic..
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