| Obama to Deliver Speech at Georgetown Today
President Barack Obama will deliver a speech on energy security at Georgetown University today. Many Catholics were outraged in 2009 after Obama delivered a speech in Georgetown's Gaston Hall, because the University complied with a White House request and covered over the monogram "IHS," which is an ancient symbol for the name of Jesus Christ. Read more...
Scandals Abounding at Jesuit Universities
This past month we saw incident after incident of Catholic identity abuse on Jesuit campuses. The more these colleges mislead our youth, the more your Cardinal Newman Society will be there to shine its light into the darkness. Help us shine that light even brighter! Click here to make a donation.
Pro-Life Leaders Call on Jesuit Seattle University to Sever Planned Parenthood Ties
A group of 16 national pro-life leaders, led by The Cardinal Newman Society and Students for Life of America, sent a letter to the President of Seattle University calling on him to put an end to the institution's numerous connections to Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion rights organizations. The Catholic Church's unequivocal condemnation of abortion renders a Catholic university's association with any pro-abortion rights organization grossly inappropriate. Read more...
No End to 'V-Monologues' in 2011; Gonzaga Dismisses 9-year Ban on Play
The Cardinal Newman Society has identified reports of fourteen Catholic colleges and universities—-ten of them Jesuit—-involved with productions of the vile play The Vagina Monologues in 2011. An article in Gonzaga's student paper indicated that the University will host the play this year despite 9 years of the play being forbidden on campus. Read more...
Boston College Students Urge Admin to Approve Group that Distributes Condoms
We've been following the story about an unofficial group called "Boston College Students for Sexual Health" for most of this school year. Last semester, we told how the student paper reported that this group was expanding services on campus to include direction to contraceptive services and free female, in addition to male condoms. Now the report is in that the student senate passed a resolution urging the College to recognize the "Sexual Health" group. Read more...
Marquette U President Invokes Jesuit Principle to Justify New 'Domestic Partner' Benefits
The president of Marquette, Fr. Robert Wild, S.J., has directed the Department of Human Resources to now include "registered domestic partner" coverage in the Jesuit University's health insurance plans beginning the first of next year. Fr. Wild said, "If we are truly pastoral in our application of the Jesuit principle of cura personalis, I asked myself if I could reconcile that with denying health benefits to a couple who have legally registered their commitment to each other." Read more...
Catholic College Appeals Federal Decision That It's Not Religious Enough
Catholic Manhattan College has appealed the January decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) which allows adjunct faculty to vote on forming a union. The NLRB ruled that the College could not prevent the faculty from forming a union on the basis that it is a religious institution. Right after the NLRB ruling, your CNS published an analysis from a top legal expert advising Catholic college leaders on ways to protect their religious liberty. Read more...
Blogging for Pro-Abortion Rights Site: A Catholic College Professor
An adjunct professor from Catholic, Sisters of Charity-founded College of Mount Saint Vincent is a regular blogger for the radical pro-abortion rights website RHRealityCheck.com. In an article for the website, she wrote positively about a Northwestern University professor providing his students with an optional after-class demonstration of a sexual act. Read more...
Planned Parenthood Supporter Susan Sarandon Hosted by Catholic College
Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, hosted pro-abortion rights actress Susan Sarandon on campus earlier this month. From Cal Catholic, "Sarandon has been a longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood. She is mentioned in the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's 2007-2008 annual report as one of many Hollywood stars who has lent her name to support the world's largest abortion provider." Read more...
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Franciscan University to Honor Cardinal Burke at Commencement
Franciscan University of Steubenville just announced that Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, will be among those honored at the University's commencement this year. Cardinal Burke will also celebrate and preach the homily for Franciscan's Baccalaureate mass. FUS is included in our Newman Guide for its strong Catholic identity. Read more...
Ave Maria to Host Symposium on 'Erosion of Medical Ethics'
On March 31, Ave Maria School of Law is slated to host the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network for a symposium entitled "The Erosion of Medical Ethics". Topics discussed at the symposium will include: Catholic Church teaching as it relates to hydration and nutrition; historical prejudice to people with disabilities; health care and its potential effects on special needs patients; and the legal aspects of the Terri Schiavo case. Read more...
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Jesuit University Given $100K to Hold Forum to 'Expand' Catholic Discussion on Homosexuality
Fairfield and Fordham Universities are planning later this year to hold installments of a series that labels the voice of the Catholic Church on gay issues 'a Monologue'. Now we learn Fairfield University received $100,000 in 2010 to: "[H]old and disseminate information from a series of forums at four academic institutions in order to expand the current discussion on homosexuality within Roman Catholicism to include the diverse opinions of progressive Catholic thought leaders and theologians." Read more...
'Sex Educator' Gives Lecture at Catholic University of San Diego
F A student paper reported that a theology professor at University of San Diego, a Catholic institution, helped coordinate a campus lecture earlier this month on "sex and healthy life choices" by college speaker and "sex educator" River Huston. A perusal of the speaker's website revealed several extremely graphic descriptions of sexual acts, some of which were in a post where she answered student (not from USD) questions following her presentation. Read more...
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