This latest report from The Cardinal Newman Society should disturb any and all who are concerned with the state of Catholic higher education or the future of this country. Yours truly wrote the original draft but then poor Tim Drake was responsible for editing me. Word has it that he’s being fitted for a strait jacket as we speak.
Go read it and then weep:
A majority of members of Congress who were educated at Catholic colleges and law schools are pro-abortion rights. That’s the finding of a new report from The Cardinal Newman Society.
In all, 52 of 92 (56 percent) elected officials in the last Congress and current Congress that attended Catholic colleges, according to their congressional websites, have voted for pro-abortion rights and/or related funding.
March 19, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Instruction informs the mind. Education forms the soul. Looks like the Catholic institutions are failing in their primary mission. They're prestigious alright but that's in the eyes of the world. What a waste – Georgetown, Notre Dame. Worried where to send my children. CUA?
March 19, 2013 at 9:44 pm
For the most part, "Catholic" colleges/universities are Catholic in name only. Not surprising they are deficient at instilling Catholic ideals. That aside, politicians being what they are tend to "be" what they perceive their electors want.
March 19, 2013 at 10:20 pm
For parents wanting their college bound children to maintain and solidify their faith, public universities with a vibrant and involved Catholic student center will do a better job than most nominally Catholic colleges and universities and for a lot less money.
March 19, 2013 at 10:32 pm
There is no such a thing as "abortion rights". It is a false term used by promoters of abortion to deceptively normalise or implicitly condone the heinous killing of innocent, defenceless babies still in their mothers' wombs. People can be drawn into false notions of the morality of the deliberate killing of babies in utero by false language. Babies do, however, have a right to life. And everyone has a duty not to kill the innocent.
March 20, 2013 at 12:05 am
A scientists perspective..an academic scientist…
We all reap the rewards of the Catholic schools, hospitals, charities, adoption agencies and other infrastructure. But when all is said and done the failure is the Catholics teaching, nursing, administering,etc. because who teaches the faith…or rather who doesn't. I would love to say, let's purge the 'progressives and modernists' and teach only those who can y the nicene and apostles creed, but that won't happen. I'd love to cure only the Catholics but that won't happen. We are called by Christ to administ to all and ask nothing. I suspect He knows this. I wonder if we are ones who failed though. The fact that 5 of 12 department chairs at my university…are Catholics. Says we at all levels have failed to speak of our faith. Silenced. It seems to me that this isn't limited to higher Ed, although whining about it makes people feel warm and fuzzy. When was the last time you went to a coffee shop and prayed the rosary to yourself over a medium blend? When was the last time you acted on your faith like saying grace as food is delivered by the waiter or waitress. So before we slander us in higher Ed, lets see all the ways in which we Catholics have failed the amazing world God created for us and that Christendom created because of the faith of our forefathers. Otherwise the idoits who whine about higher Ed are no better than the atheists. You live like a Protestant, sola ride. Get out and do some works even if its just praying in public as a witness to Christ…also, quit whining about everyone else when you do jack sh@t on your own.
March 20, 2013 at 12:52 am
Dang those public schools.
March 20, 2013 at 4:50 am
@Lynda: Eh? Yes, there is such a thing as "abortion rights", just as the samurai had a thing called "cutting-and-walking right" (kiri sute gomen). In both cases, it meant a class of people was allowed to kill innocent people.
When someone is, rightly or wrongly, allowed to do something, we call that a right. That's pretty much been the usage since Rome. Please do not redefine words to arbitrary definitions just to redundantly delegitimize an opponent whose position is already illegitimate. Orwellian Newspeak is what they do, not us.
March 20, 2013 at 5:41 am
Sarcasm does not help your argument, which I understand. Those who would maintain there is a "right" to abortion are the ones redefining the term. Human rights are objective rights inhering in persons qua persons. International human rights law developed out of the Natural Law under which rights are objective and unchanging. It is not possible to have a human right one day and not have it the next. Positive law may not contravene Natural Law. Any law purporting to so do, as, for example, one declaring abortion permissible, is necessarily invalid and void. All innocent persons everywhere have a "right" as in a human right not to be killed, including those jurisdictions where the positive law purports to deny it. All positive law was recognised up to recent decades to be subject to natural law and justice, i.e. objective moral reason. That is how one can talk of valid or invalid laws or laws that breach human rights (objectively knowable by reason). It is only recently that relativist ideologues have attempted to overthrow traditional legal philosophy and make laws subject only to political will. Even lawyers who promote this irrational, positivist philosophy will concede it is a legal novelty – a rupture with tradition. I trained as a barrister, but it's a sad day when all people of average intelligence do not recognise that human rights are "rights" because they are objectively true and inherent to our human nature. It appears as though many have been fooled into adopting the false terminology and ideas of the promoters of legal abortion. It is just one sign of the death of intellectual culture that eventually follows the introduction of unjust and invalid laws. After 40 years of the federal courts in the US erroneously denying the objective preexisting right to life of the baby in utero, many well-intentioned people have inadvertently been affected for ill by the constant propaganda, and have even adopted the false language of the pro-abortionists. It is crucial to think logically when fighting the abortion fraud and manipulation (as I have done with many others for thirty years) and recognise that human rights have an objective truth flowing from the objective dignity of the human person and that they are not reliant on positive law for their existence. Sorry for long comment but as a long-time fighter for respect for the right to life, I think it's crucial that all persons who are working for or helping this cause are not unnecessarily shackled by inadvertantly adopting false notions (through use of false language) fraudulently imposed by those who want to mis-use man-made law to deny the right to life.
March 20, 2013 at 5:48 am
I can't really say I'm surprised. I chose to go to a secular college over several supposedly Catholic ones largely because of the lack of Catholicism I saw there (the academic programs were about the same in quality). I thought, correctly, that it would be easier for me to get involved in the very active and devout Catholic student group there than be constantly frustrated by the lack of faith where it should be strongest.
March 20, 2013 at 6:47 pm
OH YES, graduate members going on to become the unholy elected contingent of the RANK AND VILE!!! So beyond disgusted!!! So predictable!!! Whatever foul discourse they vomit out of their mouth is usually followed by their "sincere righteous belief" in the Catholic Church. SATANS PARADOX! A Catholic education and they can't even navigate between good and evil, right and wrong. Unfathomable! Intellectual, apostate horses' @$$!!!!!!!!
March 20, 2013 at 7:38 pm
Puts in mind my son's so-called Jesuit secondary school – it puts out atheists and moral relativists at a whopping rate each year!