[DePaul] University Punishes Pro-Life Student Instead of Vandals Who Destroy His Display

Townhall ^ | FEBRUARY 28, 2013 | Todd Starnes

[BlackElk]

Here's another shame. I belong to the Knights of Columbus. Many years ago, some miscreant convinced the Supreme Council of the Knights of Columbus to put substantial pressure on local K of C Councils to support the mushy Newman Clubs with real money. Supreme Council even tells us at the local council level how much our individual councils are expected to squander on the squishy Newman Clubs for their stock in trade of all purpose Kumbaya, hand holding, social gospel nonsense, and wide-ranging political correctness.

At the small secular college from which I obtained my undergraduate degree, the "Catholic" chaplain (who has subsequently left the priesthood) had a standard one size fits all answer for anyone inquiring about becoming Catholic: If some aspect of Catholicism "bothers" you, just ignore it and believe as you please. Divinity of Christ??? Ditto. Marian beliefs and dogmas??? Ditto. Presence of Christ in the Eucharist? Necessity of the Sacrament of Penance? Commandments of the Church? Ditto, ditto, ditto!!! Father Feel Good is an example of all too many squishy Newman Club operations. Fortunately, I had the advantage of a Jesuit prep school education so long ago that the Jebbies were still Catholic (and were known as God's Marines) and was not likely to be influenced by Father Feel Good.

It was also John Henry Cardinal Newman who wrote a very fine essay on the Definition of a Gentleman: "It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never consciously seeks to offend...." Of course, John Henry Cardinal Newman had some legendary dustups with anti-Catholic polemicists in the United Kingdom which prove that to never seek consciously to offend does NOT mean to roll over and play dead when attacked.

IIRC, the head of the good group, the Cardinal Newman Society, is Patrick Reilly who was a contemporary of yours and mine in YAF. Another of our contemporaries is Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. He graduated Vanderbilt with a degree in nuclear physics (again IIRC) but went straight to work on 2nd Amendment Rights for the Second Amendment Foundation. It is he and that group who have obtained a judgment of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ordering the Illinois state government to enact a concealed carry weapons law by June 11, 2013 or have all restrictions by state law against concealed carry struck down. Illinois is the very last state without concealed carry.

Good hearing from you (always!). God bless you and yours!