Campus Notes

A small group of pro-lifers picketed Boston College Law School’s Friday commencement ceremony, which honored “pro-choice” Catholic Victoria Kennedy, the widow of Senator Ted Kennedy. The Jesuit Law School stood firm on its commencement day invitation to Victoria Kennedy, even after Anna Maria College, another Catholic institution of higher learning in Massachusetts, rescinded a similar commencement invitation [...]

Speaking to Charlie Rose of CBS, Cardinal Timothy Dolan briefly addressed the issue of Georgetown University’s hosting of pro-abortion rights HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as a commencement day speaker. Cardinal Dolan seems to think that Georgetown is “moving toward a more secular model:” “Georgetown is the oldest Catholic university in the country. Part of Catholic [...]

This is a big moment. A moment of enormous consequence to our country, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial writers. With regard to the federal lawsuits being filed by 43 Catholic institutions, including four institutions of higher learning (among them the University of Notre Dame and The Catholic University of America), the Journal is saying that [...]

Robert John Araujo, SJ, a graduate of Georgetown University, writes a very powerful piece at the Mirror of Justice blog, saying that the time is running short before the Jesuit university will have completely separated itself from the Catholic Church. Clearly, Georgetown’s invitation to pro-abortion rights HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at a commencement ceremony [...]

An editorial in The Catholic Standard, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington, responds to an editorial in the Washington Post that praised Georgetown University for standing by its invitation to abortion rights advocate and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at the Jesuit university on commencement day. The Standard editorial charges that the Washington [...]