Senator Clinton Continues Catholic Campus Tour at St. Norbert College

Note: The small Catholic colleges are willing to sell their souls for a little publicity apparently. When it's time to explain it to Jesus, I'm sure they'll have a good explanation. They don't seem to be able to offer one now.

Senator Clinton Continues Catholic Campus Tour at St. Norbert College

Staunchly pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to appear at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wis., on Feb. 17, as part of her campaign schedule for the Wisconsin primary two days later. She also has accepted an invitation to appear at Marquette University Law School.

Clinton’s appearance at St. Norbert College is scheduled to be a lengthy town hall meeting entitled "Solutions for America."

Clinton appeared earlier in the week at St. Mary's University, a Catholic institution in San Antonio, Tex., and her appearance was severely criticized by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio. Archbishop Gomez said, "It is clear that the records of Senator Clinton and some of the other candidates for president on important life issues are not consistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church."

Patrick J. Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, said, "It is outrageous that another Catholic college would host a strongly pro-abortion candidate's bid for political support. We call on St. Norbert College to immediately rescind this invitation and remain faithful to its Catholic and Norbertine heritage."

St. Norbert College was founded by the Norbertine order in 1898. Among the college's core values is to "respect the sacred dignity of all creation."

Clinton Rally at Catholic University Sparks Controversy

Note: The media still uses the phony marketing term "pro-choice" to describe the political position on abortion by those who support the taking of innocent life. It is typical doublespeak in that for a "choice" to exist, there has to be an abortion industry. And that industry pumps millions of dollars into campaign coffers of politicians like Mrs. Clinton. It is a corrupting influence of the lowest moral order. It is blood money and intrinsically evil. For the college president to allow a Catholic institution to host such a person is in conflict with basic Catholc morality, the statements by the Conference of Catholc Bishops, and canon law. He is an ivory tower heretic.

Archbishop blasts 'unspeakable crime' of abortion

By Jim Forsyth
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

As Senator Hillary Clinton brings her struggling Presidential campaign to Texas, her visit is sparking controversy ahead of four rallies in the largely Hispanic southern portion of the state today, 1200 WOAI news reports.

Clinton is set to hold a campaign rally at Greehey Auditorium of St. Mary's University, a Catholic institution, prompting San Antonio Archbishop Jose H. Gomez to respond to Catholics who have expressed concerns about Clinton's pro choice political stance.

"It is clear that the records of Senator Clinton and some of the other candidates for President on important life issues are not consistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church," Gomez said.

"Our Catholic institutions must promote the clear understanding of our deep moral convictions on an issue like abortion, an act that the Church calls 'an unspeakable crime' and a non negotiable issue."

St. Mary's said it granted a permit to a student group to use the auditorium for the Clinton rally.

"As a Catholic tax-exempt university, St. Mary's does not endorse political candidates or their positions on issues and acknowledges the fundamental differences between those of the presidential candidates at the Catholic Church," President Charles Cotrell said in a statement.

Archbishop Gomez said he was 'neither advised nor consulted' before the university opened its doors to the Clinton campaign. A spokeswoman for the Clinton campaign in Texas was not immediately available for comment.

Clinton is making five stops in Texas Wednesday and Thursday, all in south Texas, where the Latino vote is looming large in the state's March 4 primary. Several key Latino political leaders incluidng U.S. Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-San Antonio) have endorsed Clinton's primary opponent, Barack Obama. Gonzalez father, the late Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez, was the first Mexican American elected to the U.S. House and is a legendary figure among Texas Hispanics.

Saint Louis University Basketball Coach Declares Himself Pro-Abortion

Rick Majerus Forgets He Works For Catholic University. Or Does He?

I'm afraid it's just the times we're in that Jesuit University Presidents are so weak in maintaining any Catholic identity that their employees feel free to contradict Catholic faith and morals publicly. It probably didn't even occur to Jabba the Coach that he was saying anything wrong or even controversial. St. Louis U has caught our attention before as Fr. Biondi was once on the board of Tenet Health System that performed abortions in its hospitals. Let's see how he reacts to this...

Majerus abortion rights comment gets St. Louis bishop's attention
Associated Press

Updated: January 23, 2008, 12:24 PM ET

ST. LOUIS -- A Roman Catholic archbishop said Tuesday that he will ask officials of Saint Louis University to take "appropriate action" against its basketball coach, who said in a television interview that he supports abortion rights.

St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke says he's concerned abortion rights comments made by basketball coach Saint Louis coach Rick Majerus (above) could "lead Catholics astray."One of the game's winningest coaches, Rick Majerus made the comment at a weekend rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke declined to say what the action against Majerus should be, saying that was a decision for the Jesuit university. But he said the coach is a leader and shouldn't support views in opposition to church teaching.

"I'm concerned that a leader at a Catholic university made these comments. It can lead Catholics astray," Burke said by telephone as he attended March for Life anti-abortion events in Washington. "I just believe that it's of the essence for people to understand as a Catholic you just cannot hold these beliefs."

Burke said he will seek to speak with university president Rev. Lawrence Biondi, or a representative, when he returns to St. Louis.

During an interview with KMOV-TV at Saturday's Clinton rally in suburban St. Louis, the first-year Billikens coach identified himself as a Catholic and called himself pro-choice. At first when asked for his views on abortion, he said he didn't want to "go there," but then said he is personally "pro-choice."

Saint Louis University spokesman Clayton Berry said Majerus was at the rally as an individual, not as a representative of the school.

Majerus has one of the best winning percentages among active college basketball coaches with a 432-154 career record. Most of those wins, and a 1998 Final Four appearance, came at the University of Utah, which he left in 2004 due to health concerns.

Before taking the Saint Louis job he worked as an ESPN analyst, and accepted and quickly gave up the coaching job at Southern California.

Burke set off a national debate in 2004 when he said he would deny Holy Communion to John Kerry, then the Democratic presidential nominee, because the Catholic Massachusetts senator supports abortion rights.

The archbishop resigned last year as board chairman for the Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation because of a benefit-concert appearance by Sheryl Crow, a native Missourian who supports abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research.

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

Saint Anselm College Welcomes Abortion Supporter Madeleine Albright

Saint Anselm College, a leading heretical formerly Catholic college in Manchester, NH is welcoming Madeleine Albright, former UN Representative and Secretary of State from the Clinton Administration. If association were cause to reject Albright on a Catholic college campus, then her position in the radically pro-abortion Clinton administration would be enough. If you recall, Bill Clinton twice vetoed the ban on partial birth abortion and supported abortion on demand by appointing liberal Supreme Court Justices like David Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

But in the case of Albright, we have more direct evidence of her support for taking innocent babies lives in their mothers' wombs. Albright has publicly spoken in support of abortion "rights" as at the April 25, 2004 rally in Washington, D.C. reported here.

Facts such as these are brushed aside by today's ivory tower elites like Fr. Jonathan DeFelice, president of St. Anselm College in the name of "academic freedom". Albright has something to say, after all. And she's not afraid of how many dead children it takes to say it.

Until heretics like DeFelice are called out, they'll continue leading young souls astray at grave peril to himself and his minions. But at least he gets to rub elbows with the like of Clinton and Albright and that's all he really desires.