Catholic colleges defy Church disipline.Washington, D.C.--In June 2004 the US bishops approved a policy barring Catholic institutions from conferring honours on public leaders who promote legal abortion, same-sex unions, fetal-tissue research, and other policies that involve grave violation of Fundamental moral principles. The bishops proclaimed that public figures who support such policies "should not be given awards, honors, or platforms which would suggest support for their actions." At least 13 American Catholic colleges and universities (out of some 240) have defied the US bishops by inviting commencement speakers who defy Church teachings on key moral issues, the Cardinal Newman Society The Cardinal Newman Society is an organization founded in 1993 and dedicated to the renewal of Catholic identity on the campuses of colleges and universities in the United States. reports (CWNews.com, May 6, 2005). In New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Archbishop Alfred Hughes Alfred Collingwood Hughes (1868 - February 17, 1935) was a British sailor who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a crew member of the British boat Sorais, which won the bronze medal in the 8 metre class. External links
Other offending colleges are Edgewood (Wisconsin), Le Moyne Le Moyne (lə mwän), Canadian family. It was founded by Charles le Moyne, sieur de Longueuil, whose 11 sons were noted soldiers, explorers, and colonizers. The two most famous sons were the sieur d'Iberville and the sieur de Bienville. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), Loyola (Maryland), Marquette (Wisconsin), Regis (Massachusetts), St. Bonaventure (New York), St. Xavier (Illinois), Seattle (Washington) and Villanova (Pennsylvania). Marymount Manhattan invited pro-abortion Hillary Clinton for its commencement address. In May the Archdiocese of New York declared that Marymount was no longer a Catholic College. St. Michael's Catholic College, Vermont, has gone one step further. It has promoted Professor Jeffrey Trumbower to Dean of the College. Trubower has been on the faculty for sixteen years, lately as head of the Religious Studies Department. He is a Unitarian, openly "gay," with a male "partner." The College was established in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund, or Edmundites, a small religious community of priests (Matt Abbott, May 24, 2005). |
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