Day: September 20, 2012

‘Pro-Choice’ Catholic Kennedy, Congressman at Anna Maria College

Truth to power, anyone?

Campus Notes

It appears that “pro-choice” Victoria Reggie Kennedy has been invited again to Anna Maria College, which disinvited her last spring. This time she will share a stage with a Catholic congressman who has a 100 percent rating from the pro-abortion group NARAL.

As reported by The Cardinal Newman Society in March, Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass., honored the wishes of Worcester Bishop Robert McManus and disinvited the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy as commencement speaker because of concerns about conflicts with Catholic moral teaching. Then the College asked Bishop McManus not to attend the commencement ceremony, claiming he would be a “distraction.”

Now the College reportedly has invited Kennedy to speak on October 24 as part of its fall symposium on “Faith and the Public Square: Balancing Religious Beliefs with the Common Good.”

Since when do Catholics “balance” their faith with the common good, as if the two are contradictory? Sounds like the perfect venue…

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“Geriatric Hippie Nuns” vs. GK Chesterton

This fellow uses GK Chesterton to refute the social-gospelling nuns of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

Chesterton “would have been more than happy to befriend the wetlands had he known they needed befriending; [and] he would have endorsed reasonable measures to promote clean and sustainable energy,” he writes.

What the Curmudgeon of Catholicism would have vehemently denounced, however, is the LCWR’s conflation of sin and sociology such that the gospel becomes essentially a clarion call to social action, and sin is redefined to encompass only those perceived injustices committed by the collectives in power. This is not the gospel Chesterton embraced, nor is it the gospel Christ entrusted to his apostles.

Well said, that.