Xavier University Keeps Contraception Coverage

Catholic World Report ^ | 10/30/12 | Catherine Harmon

[marshmallow]

Last April, Xavier University in Cincinnati made headlines when its president, Father Michael J. Graham, SJ, announced that the school would be dropping contraception and sterilization coverage from its health insurance plan as of July 1. That change was not implemented, however, and Father Graham now regrets his previous announcement, according to a recent interview.

In the spring, Graham reviewed Xavier’s insurance policies in light of the Obama administration’s mandate that all policies provide coverage for contraception and sterilization. The Jesuit university was already covering those services under its plan, and in an April 2 letter to the university community, Graham announced that this coverage would be suspended as of July 1, in the middle of the insurance plan period.

“As a Catholic priest and as president of a Catholic university, I have concluded that, absent a legal mandate, it is inconsistent for a Catholic institution to cover those drugs and procedures the Church opposes,” Graham said in his letter.

Now it seems Father Graham has changed his mind.

Graham’s original interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer is behind a firewall, but Inside Higher Ed has confirmed the details:

The policy change was announced in an interview with The Cincinnati Enquirer, although the decision was made earlier, said Kelly Leon, a university spokeswoman. In the interview, the Jesuit university’s president, the Rev. Michael J. Graham, said he faults himself for his handling of the situation. While he disagrees strongly with the mandate, he told the newspaper, he said he believes universities should set a moderate example for the nation. …

[marshmallow]

Jesuits.

[preamble]

so now Catholic students must pay for the sluts that attend their

university

A Catholic university is subsidizing sluts and going against life.

[Buckeye McFrog]

My late uncle was a Jesuit and he would not have accepted this even for a second.

My fear is that the Church as a whole, like this guy, will eventually roll over on this subject when push comes to shove. After all they’ve been going along with it in Europe and keeping their traps shut for 30 or 40 years.

[impimp]

Fr. Graham seems to be preaching a message of hate.

[mo]

“....excommunication latae sententiae—meaning that one’s actions have caused one to excommunicate oneself.”

Not really much to discuss. They may refer to themselves as “catholic” ...or for that matter, anything else they may decide to call oneself, but to pretend unity with Rome and to advertise and charge admission as such, is fraudulent.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— My fear is that the Church as a whole, like this guy, will eventually roll over on this subject when push comes to shove. -—

Mine too.

Seminary training should include some training in free market economics. It seems like seminarians receive plenty of Marxist theory disguised as “social justice.”

[Rashputin]

They had contraception coverage, they announced that they’d cut it off, and now they announce that they’re going to keep it.

It’s pretty obvious the board or whoever calls the shots is a lot more interested in which way the wind is blowing than with what’s right.

[Arm_Bears]

Father Graham wimped out and needs to be shown the door.