Posted on 12/17/2013 7:39:21 PM PST by marshmallow
(RNS) Dozens of Catholic leaders are protesting the decision by the Catholic University of America to accept a large donation from the foundation of Charles Koch, a billionaire industrialist who is an influential supporter of libertarian-style policies that critics say run counter to church teaching.
Charles Koch and his brother, David, “fund organizations that advance public policies that directly contradict Catholic teaching on a range of moral issues from economic justice to environmental stewardship,” says a four-page letter to CUA President John Garvey, released Monday (Dec 16)
The letter was signed by 50 priests, social justice advocates, theologians and other academics, including several faculty at CUA in Washington.
The $1 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation was announced last month. Along with $500,000 from the Busch Family Foundation, the Koch gift will underwrite the hiring of three visiting scholars and a “visiting scholar-practitioner from the business world.”
“As you well know, Catholic social teaching articulates a positive role for government, an indispensable role for unions, just tax policies, and the need for prudent regulation of financial markets in service of the common good,” said the letter, also directed to Andrew Abela, dean of CUA’s new School of Business and Economics.
“We are concerned that by accepting such a donation you send a confusing message to Catholic students and other faithful Catholics that the Koch brothers’ anti-government, Tea Party ideology has the blessing of a university sanctioned by Catholic bishops,” it continues.
CUA is the only Catholic university in the U.S. that is sponsored and partially funded directly by the American hierarchy; most other Catholic schools are operated by religious orders. It is also a pontifical university, meaning it is certified by the Vatican.
Critics say that makes the donation, which CUA faculty said is one of the largest......
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Who the hell are these idiots? Are they in Venezuela?
Isn't that stretching their core strengths?
Wow 50 priests!
I can name 50 politically idiot priests in my Diocese alone.
“We are concerned that by accepting such a donation you send a confusing message to Catholic students and other faithful Catholics that the Koch brothers’ anti-government, Tea Party ideology has the blessing of a university sanctioned by Catholic bishops,” it continues.”
Yet baby-killing and sodomy are somehow A-OK with church teaching. What a cretin.
Things go better with Koch. And Busch.
“you send a confusing message to Catholic students and other faithful Catholics”
lol!
NOW they care about confusing messages? Like having a homo student groups or supporting abortion?
The Catholic Universities in America have been taken over by Godless Communists since the 60s.
Nothing but blind guides, whitewashed tombs filled with dead men’s bones.
The Business School at CUA, which is only a year or two old, is perhaps the brightest light at the University right now. Enrollment is down considerably with the Law School taking the biggest hit followed closely by the School of a Architecture.
CUA is very fortunate to have a talent like Andrew Abella at the helm. He falls into the distributivist camp which puts him solidly in line with Catholic social teaching. His critics are of the vintage that came of age during Vatican II and as they are doing today with Francis, read that document for what they wanted to see, not what it said.
If unborn babies were made of aluminum...
maybe liberal Catholics would finally
care how they are thrown away.
so let those who protest the donation offer a larger one if the school turns down the original gift.........fat chance!
thanks for your concern, but the Catholic church has prospered for over 2,000 years and will do just fine in the current atmosphere...she cannot err in matters of faith, so whatever decisions she makes will be just fine!!!
“As you well know, Catholic social teaching articulates a positive role for government, an indispensable role for unions, just tax policies, and the need for prudent regulation of financial markets in service of the common good,”
Catholic teaching does not advocate any of these things. These are the policies of the communists who murdered millions of Catholics.
Politics ranks above religion for leftists “christians”. Jesus says love thy enemy but these Christians hate them.
This was a waste of money. There are colleges like Hillsdale which are more deserving of such charity
If this is what the Catholic church stands for, then I'm no longer a Catholic. The Left destroys everything they touch, including religions.
>> If this is what the Catholic church stands for, then I’m no longer a Catholic.
If you want to walk, go right ahead. But don’t parade some idiotic instance as the reason for doing so.
Sent a daughter there. CUA is a GEM in the pile of excrement DC has become. We should all support them for simultaneously doing both the Lord’s and the Founding Father’s work.
If it doesn't send that message it should!
Oscar Wilde
Of course, it is acceptable to receive monies from foundations supporting abortion and other leftist policies...
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