I’m friends with Blatty’s son. He once told me that his pop got his books done by writing just one page (at least) per day. Made sense!
Bravo!
I didn’t know he was an alumnus.
Have the Newman Society request that it be allowed to open a chapter on the Hoya campus. Since the Newman Society has long been a presence for Catholic students on public and non Catholic campuses it deserves a place at Georgetown.
As a lifelong Nikon User, I appreciate his desire to sue Canon.
Is Georgetown University still Catholic?
That’s an answer for the Church to decide. And a canon law suit to be filed by Georgetown alumni will seek an answer.
Today the Cardinal Newman Society announced that we are assisting Georgetown alumni, students and others who are busily preparing a canon law suit to be filed with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Vatican.
You’ll be hearing more about this in the weeks and months ahead, including opportunities to join the law suit in support of authentic Catholic identity.
Being a Georgetown alumnus, this is long overdue. From my perspective the Jesuits have just stood by and allowed this to happen or worse they wanted it to happen.
Leading the canon law effort is the distinguished alumnus William Peter Blatty, an Academy Award winner who authored The Exorcist.
“For 21 years now, Georgetown University has refused to comply with Ex corde Ecclesiae... [a]nd, it seems as if every month GU gives another scandal to the faithful!” Blatty wrote, announcing his plans.
“The most recent is Georgetown’s obtuse invitation to Secretary Sebelius to be a commencement speaker.”
Today Georgetown will undermine the Bishops and all faithful Catholics by honoring “pro-choice” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, architect of the HHS contraceptive mandate, as a commencement-day speaker.
They are doing so, despite more than 26,000 signers to our open letter at GeorgetownScandal.com... and despite Cardinal Wuerl’s public opposition!
And if you’re affiliated with Georgetown in any way — graduate, student, parent employee, etc. — please be sure to visit www.gupetition.org and join Mr. Blatty’s canon law suit.
Back in the ‘70s, some married female applicants to Georgetown’s Law School were asked whether they were on the Pill. When one applicant questioned, “Why are you asking?”, the response was, “We don’t want anybody dropping out early to raise families”.