Posted on 09/27/2007 2:16:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
Washington DC, Sep 27, 2007 / 10:18 am (CNA).- The oldest Catholic university in the nation has changed its policy to permit grants to law students who intern with abortion agencies, such as Planned Parenthood.
Law Center Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff of Georgetown University announced the policy change Sept. 7 in a letter published in the Law Center's student newspaper. It was reported in The Hoya, the Georgetown University newspaper.
The decision came after the Law Center got flack from pro-abortion students and faculty for directing student group Equal Justice Foundation to refuse funding to a student who applied to intern at Planned Parenthood.
The Hoya reports that the University Law Center will no longer consider the mission of organizations in determining grants, as was the case for the initial denial of funding.
"In partnership with the Equal Justice Foundation, the Law Center will provide grants to all students who work on law-related issues at a public interest organization or government agency," wrote Aleinikoff.
Joy Welan the president of the Catholic University Law Center's pro-abortion group, Law Students for Choice, was pleased with the decision. She said her group met with Aleinikoff several times over the policy.
"We think that this compromise is fantastic news, for students who are interested in pursuing careers in reproductive rights advocacy," Welan told The Hoya. "The dean has taken a huge step forward in advancing Georgetown's commitment to public interest law, and we applaud him for it."
Daniel Hughes, president of the Law Center's pro-life group - "Progressive Alliance for Life" - said plainly that the Catholic University was now funding abortion advocacy.
"Aleinikoff has a radically secular, morally relativistic vision for the Law Center," Hughes said in an e-mail to The Hoya. "He and other administrators have crafted a dishonest, legalistic 'compromise' that will allow students to gain assured, extensive Georgetown funding for pro-abortion legal work."
A legacy of the late but not lamented Fr. Robert Drinan, S.J.
Do they get any sort of federal funding?! PULL IT! I am sick and tired of my taxes paying for this kind of crap!! >:-(
It would be vastly more honorable to go into prostitution or drug-running.
I just heard this of FoxNews Channel with Brit Hume. Not good. I think we need to contact them and say we will pull out our money from alumni donations!
And these are Christians of the One True Church, eh??? These are the Christians that are filled with the presence of Jesus for 20 minutes each mass day...
I’m sure you’ll excuse me for being so harsh but anyone or any church that would condone (keep silent about) murdering babies is definately ANATHEMA to me, and God...
Me too!
Heavenly Father. For the sake of Your sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.
It should not be a surprise at all. First, G’town long ago sold its corporate soul. Second, the bishops through the USCCB have for many years advocated a host of ill conceived statist policies, including opposition to welfare reform, and have advanced immigration policies which frankly are destructive of sovereignty all in the name of “social justice” aka socialist justice. And recently they just hired a far left “progressive” to direct domestic policy. Given a willingness to compromise as a political body, it is too much to expect accountability.
Is there some reason why you are trolling all the Catholic threads and making rude comments when members of our Church have faults, failings, and sin? Are you without sin - is that why you jump in and cast the first stone?
What has the new Archbishop of Washington D.C. said on this matter?
Me too.
I guess that cuts out about 90% of the non-Catholic denominations. Including maybe yours, also.
The only consistent voice for the unborn is the Catholic Church. In it's long and often lonely battle with the UN to stop abortion being enshrined as a universal human right, the Vatican has stood isolated save for the support of a few Islamic nations. If you don't believe me, check out who Planned Parenthood and the femi-nazis attack as their target of choice. It's not Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, the Archbishop of Canterbury or Billy Graham. It's the Catholic Church. That should tell you something.
Ping us the next time your church or any non-Catholic organization weighs in on Roe v Wade or says anything of any gravitas about the abortion issue.
Furthermore, no amount of fingerpointing at the sins of Catholics will alter the historical reality of what the Catholic Church is; the Mystical Body of Christ. If you've found a church with no sinners or no scandal then you're not living on planet Earth.
Give it a rest.
**I’m sure you’ll excuse me for being so harsh but anyone or any church that would condone (keep silent about) murdering babies is definately ANATHEMA to me, and God...**
So are you taking part in the 40 Days for Life vigils by Planned Parenthood Clinics in your city?
I’m taking bets!
You suffer from cranial rectumitis.
OK, someone help out an ignorant Protestant...Why couldn’t/wouldn’t an authority in the Catholic church step in and put the kibosh on this? This is odd to me, especially given the staunch pro-life stance of the church, or at least a majority of its leadership.
Your bishops I presume are a part of your magisterium...
My point is to show any lurkers that may be interested in Christianity that your claim of your church being the 'Mystical Body of Christ' couldn't be farther from the truth...
And the fact that many of your bishops not only condone but encourage murdering unwanted children helps confirm that...And, the silence from Rome pertaining to those bishops who are in charge of millions of lay Catholics and their teaching/learning is deafening...
This ignorant Catholic has the same question. The best answer I can come up with is that Georgetown is run by the Jesuits and answer to the head of the Jesuits, not the bishops. The Jesuits, once a thriving order and defenders of the faith, is now no longer thriving. They have pretty much ceased to be Catholic in their pursuit of secular goals such as abortion rights and gay rights and all things leftist.
And you've shown this how?
You've shown precisely nothing, other than to highlight what numerous Catholics on this forum, including myself, have remarked on repeatedly. Namely, that there are those who claim to be Catholic but who do not accept the teaching of the Church and that some bishops will not confront the issue.
I doubt if your "church" even has an official teaching on the issue of abortion, still less unanimity among its members on the subject, still less disciplinary measures against those who promote abortion. Show me any church which is as staunchly pro-life or does as much to promote the culture of life as the Catholic Church. Start with yours! Post some links showing us hopeless Catholics how life issues should be handled.
You can't and you won't.
That's because in your befuddled theological world, works don't matter. You're saved by faith alone and as long as your head is in the Bible and on "the Word" you're fine. For Catholics, of course, works do matter and that's why we are in the vanguard of protecting unborn children and fighting against the culture of death. We believe we'll be judged on how we worked to protect the unborn and those who couldn't help themselves. We believe that we''ll be judged on how we acted towards the least of Jesus' brethren.
You won't hear that in the self-help "churches", of course because it's all about your own fulfillment, your own destiny, fulfilling your own potential and similar codswallop.
Choose another issue to bash the Catholic Church. You're fanning the air on this one.
The Jesuits have simply ceased to believe. It comes down to that, I think. Their leadership is ineffectual and their ranks are filled with agnostics. They're heading south very quickly.
There has also been a crisis of authority in the Church over recent times. Some shepherds have abandoned the sheep.
That's a very brief answer that covers about 50 years of Church history.
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