Category Archives: Jesuits

‘Exorcist’ Author, Georgetown Alumni Preparing Canon Lawsuit

May 18, 2012 – 12:35 am

Georgetown University alumni, students and others are preparing a canon law suit to be filed with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Vatican, seeking remedies “up to and including the possible removal or suspension of top-ranked Georgetown’s right to call itself Catholic or Jesuit in its fundraising and representations to applicants.” The effort is being [...]

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Washington Post Highlights Sebelius Flap at Georgetown

May 16, 2012 – 9:23 am

The Washington Post reports this morning on yesterday’s developments in what it terms the “already-boiling debate” over Georgetown University’s invitation to “pro-choice” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak on commencement day (May 18). [Tell Georgetown to withdraw the invite to Sebelius - sign the petition at GeorgetownScandal.com] Taking note of statements put out by both the [...]

By Charlotte Hays | Also posted in Catholic Identity Policy, Contraception, Ex corde Ecclesiae, Pro-life, Strong Catholic Identity, Student Life, The Bishops, Uncategorized | Comments Off

EWTN Devotes Entire Radio Show to Georgetown Commencement Day Scandal

May 11, 2012 – 1:20 pm

You won’t want to miss EWTN Radio at 2 p.m. EASTERN this afternoon for a special segment of “Register Radio” devoted to examining Georgetown University’s decision to give HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius a graduation platform. [Tell Georgetown to withdraw the invite to Sebelius - sign the petition at GeorgetownScandal.com] In a roundtable discussion, National Catholic Register [...]

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Georgetown Professors Oppose Sebelius, Others Support Contraception

May 10, 2012 – 11:31 am

Georgetown Associate Professor of Government Patrick Deneen told The Cardinal Newman Society this morning that he “just hit the send” button on his joint faculty letter asking Georgetown President John J. DeGioia to rescind an invitation to “pro-choice” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at the Jesuit university on commencement day. [Tell Georgetown to withdraw the [...]

By Charlotte Hays | Also posted in Abortion, Catholic Identity Abuse, Catholic Identity Policy, Contraception, Faculty, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

Pope Urges Catholic Colleges to Embrace Catholic Identity

May 7, 2012 – 1:39 pm

Addressing bishops from the U.S., Pope Benedict XVI issued a clarion call for the renewal of Catholic identity at America’s Catholic colleges and universities, according to Vatican Radio. The Holy Father made this important statement to a group of American bishops from Georgia and North Carolina visiting the Vatican for their “ad limina” visit this [...]

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Princeton’s Robert George Understands Why Georgetown Invited Sebelius

May 7, 2012 – 1:22 pm

Princeton University Professor Robert George is taken aback by Georgetown University’s invitation to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. But he writes at The Mirror of Justice blog that he understands exactly why they did it. [Tell Georgetown to withdraw the invite to Sebelius - sign the petition at GeorgetownScandal.com] The left-liberals who run the show at Georgetown have found a [...]

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Bill Donohue Asks: “Georgetown University Catholic or Not?”

May 4, 2012 – 10:15 am

Bill Donohue, the President of The Catholic League says it’s time for Georgetown University to decide whether it’s Catholic or not. In a piece appearing in The Spero Forum, Donohue recalls that in 1999, hard-core pornographer Larry Flynt spoke at Georgetown. Donohue points out that there was not one letter of protest from the faculty concerning this invitation. [...]

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Wheeling Jesuit Holds Townhall on Obamacare

May 3, 2012 – 5:11 pm

Wheeling Jesuit University hosted a townhall discussion on the “moral and constitutional aspects” of the Affordable Health Care Act earlier this week. “The legislation would benefit millions of people, especially those who are poor,” Jessica Wrobleski, a professor of theology at WJU, said to about 30 audience members, according to The Intelligencer. Fr. Brian O’Donnell, [...]

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Jesuit University Goes for Trifecta of Scandalous Speakers

May 3, 2012 – 12:54 pm

The University of San Francisco might just be lining up the most scandalous array of commencement speakers for 2012. As The Cardinal Newman Society reported earlier this week, USF, a Jesuit institution, has pro-abortion rights and pro-same sex “marriage” speakers lined up for their commencement ceremonies including Mayor of San Francisco Edwin Lee on May 18 and Congressman Lynn [...]

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Medal of Freedom for Georgetown’s Madeline Albright

May 2, 2012 – 11:19 am

Georgetown University is crowing over the recent announcement that the Obama administration will award the Medal of Freedom to the Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy Madeline Albright, according to a press release that appears on the Jesuit university’s website. Albright, the former Secretary of State, is now a professor at Georgetown. Albright, you might recall, [...]

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Georgetown Will Offer Contraceptive Coverage to Employees, Not Students

May 1, 2012 – 3:27 pm

The president of Georgetown University announced in an email that student plans will not be adjusted to include coverage of birth control this year, but the Jesuit university is going to go right on providing that same coverage to employees, according to the Catholic News Agency. Mind you, President John DeGioia inexplicably cited the university’s [...]

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Study: College Age Students Losing Faith

May 1, 2012 – 2:21 pm

A new study coming out of Georgetown University reports that many in the younger generation known as “millenials” are abandoning orthodoxy at an alarming rate. The study focusing on 18-to-24-year-old Americans finds many rejecting religious doctrine, according to a joint survey from Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace& World Affairs and the Public Religion [...]

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Correction: Peter Singer

April 16, 2012 – 10:34 am

4/17/12:  Yesterday, The Cardinal Newman Society reported that Peter Singer of Princeton University was invited to Georgetown to speak on the ethics of automated war. But it was in fact Peter W. Singer of the Brookings Institution. Our apologies for the misinformation. We will work to ensure that this doesn’t occur again.

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Breaking News: Georgetown Hosts Sandra Fluke as Speaker on Contraception Access

April 13, 2012 – 3:52 pm

Georgetown University, a Jesuit university, is inviting students, faculty and staff to a ”A Conversation with Sandra Fluke on Contraception Access” later this month, according to the university’s calendar. The university describes the event this way: Sandra Fluke is former co-president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice and a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown’s Law [...]

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LBGTQ-Friendly Checkbox for Students at Georgetown?

April 5, 2012 – 11:21 am

A proposal to add an LGBTQ-friendly checkbox on the Campus Housing Roommate Matching System (CHARMS) has initiated a bit of controversry on the campus of Georgetown University — but not for the reasons you might expect. The initiative was conceived in last year’s session of the Georgetown University Student Association Senate. A year and a [...]

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