Posted on 04/28/2005 3:30:37 PM PDT by Diago
I agree with all the above posts. This is a really big deal. I hope the whining dems lather the news with this, but I won't be surprised if they don't.
Great news! I bet somebody had to hold Egan's feet to the fire to get him to do this...but at least he did it.
This is a good start. Of course, there are still a number of other reputedly "Catholic" universities that need to be similarly delisted. Take the University of San Francisco, for example.
It will only get in the MSM when a Jesuit University is declared non-Catholic.....Georgetwon, Santa Clara ect...
Hillary Clinton used a Catholic Church in New York to deliver a talk to loyal Democrats when she was running for her senate seat. Protesting parishioners prayed the rosary while she spoke and they were thrown out of their own church by strongmen. The church allowed their own to be
tossed while this pro choice female pandered for votes.
What Parish was this??
This is excellent - now, if they could be forced to remove Catholic from their name, that would be even better.
Makes me remember when I was in a Catholic High School a million years ago. We had a Rabbi come to address our class on comparative religions, and he referred to the clergy as Priests, Nuns, Brothers and Jesuits. LOL Even then people were a bit confused as to whether Jesuits were indeed Catholic. My kids all went to Jesuit High Schools and Colleges (including University of San Francisco and Santa Clara) and emerged with their religion and conservatism in place. Maybe we were just lucky?
All your morals are belong to us!
No grants for you!
I Love Pope Benedict!
Don't miss this thread!
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HILLARY =
Supporter of our terrorist enemy HO CHI MINH during the Vietnam War against Freedom's survival in South Vietnam
HILLARY =
Supporter of our terrorist enemies in a new time of war with our own Freedom now directly at stake here at home
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The only use the name Catholic when seeking donations...never when teaching religion.
Papa Benedetto has it right that every act of intentional abortion infanticide, euthanasia, etc. is unambiguously condemned because its intention is to kill an innocent human being, either as a means or as an end.
War is more complicated because it is a complex of actions which must be judged one by one AND as a totality. It is possible for a war to be just in its inception and in its intentions (defensive, limited, legitimately authorized, last resort etc.) but still contain elements that merit unequivocal condemnation. Acts of war deliberately directed against civilians, for example, present precisely the same moral problem as abortion: the deliberate shedding of innocent blood, which is abominable in the eyes of God.
The death penalty -- carried out justly by the legitimate authoities --- is not condemned as murder, but is justified (according to the Catechism) if it is essential to the protection of public safety.
Pope Benedict, like his predecessor John Paul, has insisted that in modern times, maximum security prisons make its possible to incarcerate murderers and other violent felons without possibility of parole, and in such a way that they are no longer a threat to society. They have advanced the teaching that if this is possible, then executions should be vanishingly rare.
I myself wonder about the situation where a person already serving a life sentence, re-offends: say, by attacking another inmate or a guard. This would suggest that even imprisonment didn't suffice to secure public safety in his case; and I suppose that's where the death penalty would become legitimate.
As a Catholic I am obliged to follow the teaching here, as well as I can understand it. Anybody want to read what it says in Evangelium Vitae and the Catechism, and offer a fuller interpretation?
BTW HOORAY, punching the air and high-fiving for Cardinal Egan. I always rejoice to see a vertebrate Bishop.
Wow! I hope more bishops do the same with "Catholic" schools in their dioceses.
Fordham is a Jesuit school in the Archdiocese of New York. Have the Jesuits there been behaving themselves?
Get real. A friend of mine who has taught there refers to the Jesuit residence as the "Gay Bunker."
Do you think the Jesuits at Fordham will be worried about this or could they care less? I imagine something like this would have an adverse effect on fundraising.
Minor quibble: the Sacred Heart of Mary
She doesn't have one of those.
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