Catholic Schools and Colleges Dump AI Overseas but not in US?

Amnesty International reports that they have lost members and that schools and colleges have had their clubs disbanded.

In an article in the Guardian, the head of Amnesty reports the following:

In her first full interview since a senior Vatican cardinal called on Catholics worldwide to stop donating to the human rights body, Kate Allen defended the change, and revealed that only 222 of the organisation's quarter of a million British members have resigned as a result.

A further 105 have increased their donations in the wake of the claim last June by Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, that Amnesty had "betrayed its mission" on human rights by abandoning its policy of neutrality on abortion in limited circumstances.

Allen also said she greatly regretted that eight schools in Northern Ireland have now closed or suspended their Amnesty groups following an instruction by the Catholic church in the province. Last week more than 2,000 schools in England and Wales were also advised to sever their links with Amnesty in a letter from the Catholic bishops.

But in the US, the call for Catholic colleges and universities to discontinue support for AI has come from a scattering of bloggers and pro-life web sites and not from the US Bishops at all. They either are not interested in a confrontation over the issue, are not sufficiently informed or know that the colleges will respond the way they always do, by ignoring them.

It is past due time that the bishops show some leadership on this issue and begin to reign in the colleges and universities that openly flaunt pro-abortion and pro-gay policies, of which hosting Amnesty International is just one example.