…I wondered whether the graduates of evangelical colleges and universities showed similar voting behaviors, so I compared the voting records of the 10 graduates of evangelical colleges and universities with the voting records of the 60 graduates of Roman Catholic colleges and universities. The results: Eight of the 10 evangelical college grads not only vote pro-life but are among the strongest anti-abortion voices in Congress. In contrast, 40 of the 60 Catholic college grads in the 111th Congress voted last year to expand abortion rights.
…Faithful Catholics were dismayed when nine of the other 12 Catholic college graduates in the Senate joined Durbin in voting to have the United States fund abortions overseas. Those favoring such funding: Georgetown grads Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; and Jim Webb, D-Va.; Loyola College Maryland grad Barbara Mikulski, D-Md.; Boston College grad John Kerry, D-Mass.; St. Peter’s College grad Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; Providence College grad Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Catholic University of America grad Tom Harkin, D-Iowa; and to the surprise of some, Robert Casey Jr., D-Pa., a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross.
Three Catholic college grads, though, did vote to ban funding for overseas abortions: Georgetown grad John Barrasso, R-Wyo.; Xavier graduate Jim Bunning, R-Ky.; and Creighton University graduate Mike Johanns, R-Neb.
Similar voting patterns for Catholic college and university graduates are evident in the House, where 30 Catholic college graduates were instrumental in making it more likely that children of poor women living in the District of Columbia will be aborted. Still, 18 of the 48 Catholic college graduates in the House voted against D.C. abortion funding.
Many of the Catholic college grads went to schools under the authority of the Jesuits–the Society of Jesus, long the leading Catholic order oriented toward higher education. Boston College spokesman Jack Dunn recently told the National Catholic Reporter that Jesuit-educated graduates in Congress are “leavens of good for the wider society.” In the same article, Georgetown University spokesman Andy Pino claimed that the Jesuit graduates in Congress are “living the Jesuit value of educating leaders to be women and men for others.”
This article was written by a Catholic for World Magazine. Though I wouldn’t put all the blame on educational institutions, people can go to the most faithful of Catholic institutions and still be dissenters. But surely the environment of dissent that has existed certainly does not help and gives credence to this type of dissent being acceptable. It would appear thought that Evangelical colleges are doing a better job than most of the Catholic Universities.
Hat Tip Musings of a Pertinacious Papist.
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Unfortunately, I’m not surprised. One of the biggest errors we’ve made in the last fifty years is not teaching our youth the reason for what we teach, just the rules. With a few exceptions, we’ve failed them miserably, and this is the result.
I teach High School kids through our diocese, and I have a different approach. I advise them the scriptural and theological reasons for the Church’s position, and back it up with common sense examples of what happens when we don’t adhere to it. I remind them that as a Church, we have no authority to tell them what to do, but we do have the authority to tell them what Jesus taught. With God’s grace, I am able to teach them not just the words, but also the music that goes with those words. I wish someone would have taught me in that manner a half a century ago…it could have saved me a lot of hard lessons. So many of our Universities are Catholic in name only.
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph”. Our Lady stated that at Fatima, and I hang on those words with confidence. As Pope John Paul II so well stated…”Be not Afraid”.
Mr. Miller:
Are you REALLY devout of Blessed Miguel Pro?
Then you have an opportunity to rectify your previous SAD censorship of the TRUTH (in my respectful comment), as I posted in Mr. Thomas Peters blog:
In the Curt Jester Mr. Miller said: “As for the 15 Catholic Senators who voted for this bill at one in the morning they are not exactly quacking in their boots worrying about what their bishops will do about their support of federal funding of abortion”.
And he CENSORED THIS COMMENT. You will be the judge: “IF THOSE 15 (lawmakers) WERE PUBLICLY EXCOMMUNICATED, as is their bishops responsibility with Cannon 915, millions of ignorant Catholics in USA would not be mislead into thinking is a venial sin. I feel deep pity for my fellow Catholics in USA being so misleaded.
If our blogs do not cover up THIS UGLY TRUTH, this world-wide scandal woul not happen”.
Miércoles, 23 de diciembre de 2009
The knock-offs are proving to be of better quality than the designer’s own brand.
I approve of Andy Pino’s statement. This should be the guiding prinicple of all legislators, Catholic or otherwise.