Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
Posted on 05/06/2012 1:45:19 PM PDT by NYer
Dear President DeGioia:
It has come to the attention of The Cardinal Newman Society and the following signers that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been granted the honor of speaking at the commencement ceremony for Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute on Friday, May 18. We strongly urge you to withdraw the invitation to Secretary Sebelius immediately.
It is scandalous and outrageous that America's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university has elected to provide this prestigious platform to a publicly "pro-choice" Catholic who is most responsible for the Obama administration's effort to restrict the Constitution's first freedom -- the right to free exercise of religion -- while threatening the survival of many Catholic and other religious colleges and universities, schools, charities, hospitals and other apostolates.
Georgetown insults all Americans by this honor. The selection is especially insulting to faithful Catholics and their bishops, who are engaged in the fight for religious liberty and against abortion. The contrast is stark between Georgetown University and those faithful Catholic colleges and universities that have stood for faith and freedom.
Sincerely,
Patrick J. Reilly
President
Petition ping!
I’m a fan of Cardinal Newman. But otherwise, I’d say, “let the wicked be wicked.”
Are they playing go along to get along? Maybe trying to avoid something in the future?
Petition signed. This must stop. Where’s Cardinal Wuerl on all of this?
I’m not Catholic, but I don’t understand why Sebelius & other pro-abortion Catholics are not drummed out of the church (can’t remember the right word) by the Vatican.
Ping
It is time for the Georgetown administration to get their heels locked on this one. They deserve to have their academic brothel raided and a large number of them sacked.
There are lots of qualified Catholics to take their places, and Georgetown could become a model university as well as a warning to other institutions at variance.
As unified as the US bishops have been about this, inviting Sibelius is an act of open revolt against the church.
Why is a petition needed? Where’s the Bishop? Somebody call the Cardinal.
Didnt these same hypocrits protest Ryans visit?
If only its alumni donors would issue an ultimatum? Alas, they either have no backbone or it has produced alumni in the mold of the Sandra Flukes of this world. Sad testament to a Catholic university. The faculty is suffused with Islamic “scholars,” and liberal Catholics and Jews. We all saw the reaction given to Paul Ryan’s budget.
There are really only a few dozen truly “Catholic” colleges and universities. The Cardinal Newman Society is sort of a pressure group to try to make self-identified Catholic colleges and universities to actually follow the Catholic faith.
Georgetown has not been a “Catholic” university for quite some time now.
If Georgetown doesn’t disinvite that smarmy p.o.s., graduates with a conscience should stand up and turn their backs on her when she speaks.
Well, her schedule’s open. No invites from Kansas.
1. Promoting his new book.
2. Throwing Fr. Guarnizo under the bus.
3. Using all his powers and skills to NEVER AGAIN allow a pontifical high extraordinary form mass at the National Basilica.
My question as well.
Screw Georgetown.
They championed Fluke over Limbaugh.
I don’t feel sorry for people who put their faces in steel traps.
You missed:
4. Supporting illegal immigrants.
Since Georgetown is (nominally) a Jesuit school, it's for the Superior General of the order to slap it down, not the ordinary of the diocese in which it is located.
BUT - Georgetown now has a lay president and a lay board. If the president were still a Jesuit, the S.G. could order him under obedience to "disinvite" Sebelius. But since it's a layman, about the only thing he can threaten is to sever Georgetown's connection with the order. Which is sort of the nuclear option - and you can only use it once.
With all that said, I would like to see both the Cardinal and the Superior General come forward with SOME sort of "statement of concern" - which they are not going to do.
If you want to aggravate 'em, though, write Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, S.J., S.T.D., care of the General Curia in Rome. You probably won't get a response, because he's a 'liberation theology' fan and all that nonsense.
Since Georgetown is (nominally) a Jesuit school, it's for the Superior General of the order to slap it down, not the ordinary of the diocese in which it is located.
BUT - Georgetown now has a lay president and a lay board. If the president were still a Jesuit, the S.G. could order him under obedience to "disinvite" Sebelius. But since it's a layman, about the only thing he can threaten is to sever Georgetown's connection with the order. Which is sort of the nuclear option - and you can only use it once.
With all that said, I would like to see both the Cardinal and the Superior General come forward with SOME sort of "statement of concern" - which they are not going to do.
If you want to aggravate 'em, though, write Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, S.J., S.T.D., care of the General Curia in Rome. You probably won't get a response, because he's a 'liberation theology' fan and all that nonsense.
“Where’s Cardinal Wuerl on all of this?”
“Our primary job is to teach and try to convince people. The tradition in our country has not been in the direction of refusing communion, and I think it’s served us well.”
Cardinal Wuerl in 2006 NYT interview.
You can’t blame him for praising such a brilliant strategy, I mean there are hardly any pro-abort Catholic public figures anymore, 40+ years into the abortion experiment. It really sends a good message to all the regular Catholics watching that abortion is a really big deal to the bishops, too. I mean they care enough to hardly ever do anything about it besides saying it is bad, and everyone knows the less you actually do about something the more important it must be to you.
Freegards
I think Cardinal Wuerl has gotten caught up in elite DC circles and tries to please the NYT and WaPo crowd. This is what happens to those with red hats in Boston, NY and DC. They are seduced by the liberal press and try to nuance Catholic teaching to suit the PC crowd.
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