“I am a lifelong Catholic and my faith is very important to me."
Bravo Sierra Victoria. If what you claim were true you and the swimmer wouldn't have committed adultery for 17+ years and you wouldn't think that infanticide was a good choice.
Posted on 05/09/2012 9:29:20 AM PDT by marshmallow
Worcester Bishop Robert J. McManus won’t be attending graduation exercises at Anna Maria College this year at the behest of college officials, who met with the bishop and asked him to stay home this year.
Because of Bishop McManus’s concerns, Anna Maria previously withdrew an invitation to “pro-choice” Catholic Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to be the 2012 commencement speaker and to receive an honorary degree. But then Anna Maria President Jack Calareso and Sister Yvette Bellerose, chairman of the board of trustees, met briefly last week with the bishop, who has generally been present at Anna Maria commencement exercises, and asked him not to attend the May 19 commencement ceremonies.
The college issued a statement, saying, “Sr. Yvette Bellerose, Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Jack P. Calareso, President of Anna Maria College, asked Bishop Robert J. McManus to consider not attending the commencement, to which the bishop agreed that he didn’t want anything distracting from the significance of the ceremony for the students.”
“It was mutually agreed that it would be better for the students if the bishop didn’t attend,” Anna Maria spokesman Paula Green told The Cardinal Newman Society. Green reiterated that the presence of the bishop would have been “a distraction.”
Ironically, Bishop McManus had originally informed school officials that, if Mrs. Kennedy spoke, he would refrain from attending. The bishop explained to The Catholic Free Press, the diocesan newspaper, that he had based his objections to Mrs. Kennedy’s speaking at the college on two documents: Ex corde Ecclesiae (“From the Heart of the Church”) and “Catholics in Political Life.” The bishop told the newspaper that he had an obligation to protect the school’s Catholic identity.
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This is a contemptible act.
“Sr. Yvette Bellerose, Chair of the Board of Trustees,
Another feminist nun giving payback to the Bishop?
I am asking I dopn’t know ,but it sure sounds like if they couldn’t have Kennedy they didnt want the Bishop.
The bishop should never have agreed to this. I doubt that the students would be upset if he attended, for one thing.
Having the bishop banned from a theoretically Church-affiliated school sets a terrible precedent and also creates a very negative, hostile attitude in the mind of those students.
Interesting that yesterday the Pope called for more involvement by US bishops in the Catholic colleges in their dioceses, including the requirement that the bishops individually vet and approve instructors in theology and a couple of other disciplines.
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Bishop McManus — please go and save those kids souls!
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Bishop McManus — please go and save those kids souls!
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Bishop McManus — please go and save those kids souls!
A tragic result when a bishop of the church can’t even speak at a church-sponsored college. This is a horrible error of judgement. Hopefully the college leaders will correct this mistake Post Haste!
“I am a lifelong Catholic and my faith is very important to me."
Bravo Sierra Victoria. If what you claim were true you and the swimmer wouldn't have committed adultery for 17+ years and you wouldn't think that infanticide was a good choice.
So they think it would be "a distraction" if he came?
And he agreed?
Oy.
Oh, well. At least they blocked the 'bort. :o/
Dear Anna Maria College,
The invitation is not yours to give or deny.
The Anna Maria College designation as “Catholic”, however, IS mine to give or deny, as is your position as administrator of Anna Maria College.
Based upon your inabilty or unwillingness to maintain standards becomming of a Catholic affiliation, I am demanding you resignation by next Friday.
I will have installed a faithful successor by that time.
Sincerely,...
If you are pro-choice you aren’t a Catholic.
-—It’s war, folks. This is a contemptible act.——
Absolutely. At least our side is finally beginning to recognize that fact.
I don’t know what the bishop can do, but he better kick their ass.
(This is my bishop).
Oh, he agreed.
Oy.
Sadly, I don’t think he’ll do anything about it.
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