Parents wondering what their hard-earned money is supporting at Catholic colleges and universities might be interested in the latest findings from the Cardinal Newman Society.
The organization has discovered 10 Catholic colleges and universities that are promoting student internships with organizations whose missions or activities are directly opposed to the Church’s moral teachings on issues related to abortion and marriage.
“Under what definition of ‘Catholic education’ do students receive academic credit to work for leading pro-abortion organizations?” asked Patrick Reilly, president of The Cardinal Newman Society.
The “Dirty Deca” includes the following schools:
Boston College - recommends opportunities for students to work ‘pro bono’ for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
College of St. Benedict & St. John’s University - the school’s Gender and Women’s Studies program promotes internship opportunities with the pro-abortion Feminist Majority Foundation and organizations supporting same-sex marriage.
DePaul University - the institution’s Women’s and Gender Studies program offers credit for internships, noting that students have interned with abortion provider Planned Parenthood and the Chicago Women’s Health Center, which offers emergency contraceptive services and alternative insemination for “lesbians, bisexual, and queer couples, single women of any sexual orientation, and trans people.”
Georgetown University - permits students to receive universityfunding for interning at abortion advocacy organizations.
Loyola University of Chicago - their website lists opportunities for internships and volunteer opportunities at Chicago’s National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Planned Parenthood, and the Chicago Abortion Fund.
St. Edward’s University - has allowed students to work at NARAL Pro-Choice Texas to fulfill a “Community Service in Women’s Studies” credit requirement.
St. Norbert College - - the college’s Women’s and Gender Studies program recommends internships at several pro-abortion and same-sex marriage promoting organizations, including NOW, Legal Momentum, Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Health Network, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and PFLAG.
University of Notre Dame - the university’s Gender Studies program offers internships for academic credit at places such as the National Organization for Women.
University of San Francisco - the school’s Media Studies program has promoted internships with the California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and Girlfriends Magazine.
To learn more, visit the Cardinal Newman Society.
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When you primary focus is on your basketball or football program and not on the moral development of your students then this is what you get.
This is ANATHEMA. What good Catholic parent would send their child to a Catholic University to help promote abortion. NONE. NONE. The Catholic teachings are the same now as they were in the beginning. No abortions. These Universities must be made to stop this activity. If they have a Board that allows this then the board must be changed and replaced with “Faithful Catholics”. This is a horror.
What are the Bishops doing about this?
GOD SAVE OUR PEOPLE! What a sad time we are living in when the innocent including our young college aged children are being sold a lie. What about their souls?
Cardinal Pell told his Agenda to the Faculty of a Bad Seminary, in Australia. They refused. So he Accepted their Resignation. They now have an Increase in Vocations. Why whimp out. Do the same at these 10 Catholic Colleges. Be a Man. Call their bluff! Take charge. Speak with Authority!
I am relieved to see that the St. John’s University on the list is in Collegeville, Minnesota, and not the St. John’s University in Jamaica, New York.
Thank you for this enlightening, but sickening, article.
Calm down, people. Please, for the reputation of the Church’s sake. I don’t mean to be rude here, but college can be a place for young adults to discover themselves and their beliefs as far as religion goes. I don’t think this is necessarily bad—it’s not like these schools have posters around campus advertising a pro-choice event, or something—and if they did, then it would probably be more of a freedom of speech/expression thing. And if parents/students were looking for a strict Catholic environment, don’t you think they would send their children/go to a stricter Catholic university? Furthermore, many colleges that are not on this list also support things that are not exactly straight-edge Catholic…just because the Church gets a lot of publicity for being anti-abortion, doesn’t mean that there aren’t other issues worth going into.
PS- I’m a church-going Catholic who goes to Catholic school and has for all her life…so if someone’s going to accuse me of being atheist, or something, that argument wont’t work here. Sorry!
The Church or any organization that is apart of it should never promote, advance or advertise the philosophies of moral corruption, most definitely Planned Parenthood, NOW or militant homosexual groups.
As a St. Norbert College parent, I’m appalled at some of the non-Catholic ideas that influence students there. I sent my child to Catholic schools from pre-K through high school and thought St. Norbert College would continue to build on my child’s strong Catholic foundation. I was wrong. In just a few years my child has gone from a person with a strong Catholic identity to a person who questions everything tought prior to St. Norbert College. My child and my child’s friends are active in the parish of Old St. Joe’s and are heavily involved in Campus Ministry, yet they are all developing pro-contraception, pro-abortion, anti-male-only-priesthood, anti-Church heirarchy, and other anti-Catholic attitudes. In my opinion, this college has no business calling itslef Catholic. I certainly will NOT allow my other children to attend this pseudo-Catholic college!
The Catholic Universities/Colleges are wonderful. It teaches us to think critically about issues, especially what we had been previously taught, and to stand up for the marginalized and oppressed. It may seem strange but the Church in the US does a terrible job at catachesis. I was taught to believe because I was told to. It is fascinating to learn though how much influence man has on the institution. Did you know priests used to be married for nearly 1000 years? Did you know that the English prayers spoken during mass are wildly different from the traditional Catholic prayers, and even prayers said in different English speaking countries? It’s because the National Conference of Bishops translates the old Latin for us. Did you know that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the son in the Roman tradition because the Franks threatened to sack Rome if it was not included? As demonstrated by recent history, it becomes very apparent that the leaders in the Church are just as flawed as the rest of us. Furthermore, the idea of a homogenous Catholic idea on anything is blatantly false. It is an argument used by Rome to sustain power. There has always been disagreement and dissent within the Catholic church. That’s why there are so many orders. That’s why there are 23 different Churches in full communion with Rome. 23 different, fully acceptable interpretations of what it means to be a follower of Christ. Pretty cool. And I still love the Church just as much as when I first was taught the faith, inspite of all its foibles. Finally a lot of the organizations listed in the above article do a lot more than abort babies. NOW in particular has done so much for women’s rights across the globe. They should be thanked for being such a strong voice against inequality and violence.
The Church has many different rites, within the same Church. The Church’s Teachings, are “Indefectible.” The Pope and the Bishops, in Union with the Pope, when they speak on Matters of Faith and Morals, if they mean what the Church Means, and Teaches, then they speak Infallibly. The Pope in Union with the Bishops, and the Pope can also speak “Ex Cathedra.” The Ordinary Teaching Magisterium of the Catholic Church, enjoys, Indefectibility, and Infallability. The Church’s Teachings are INDEFECTIBLE, yet it’s People can commit personal sins. Do learn your faith, before, presuming to speak about it falsely. It is a mistake to think NOW, a Pro-Abortion Org. is admirable in any way, shape, or form. It teaches, a ferocious, anti woman infecund philosophy. Fruitless Works of the Devil. So, I will not follow such a “blind lead” as those stupid thinker-stinker women. So I do not follow, Feminists, nor do I follow bimboes, either. I look alittle “higher” for my Feminine Inspiration. I Look UP to the Blessed Virgin Mary, my Mother and my Queen!
Well, I guess I am pro-war because my tax dollars support war. And if I’m pro-unjust war, I must not be Catholic.
This article’s logic stinks.
A university enables a student to intern in a capacity WHOLLY UNRELATED to abortion (say, a program for nutrition for the less-fortunate run by an organization that also promotes contraception), and the university all of a sudden “supports” abortion. Wrong.
If that be the case, I suppose no student can intern at a university-sponsored internship with Lockheed Martin (they make bombs, so they’d be pro-violence/war) or the CIA (pro-torture -the Catholic Church is morally opposed to waterboarding). However, students DO intern at these organizations. Where is the outrage?
“Finally a lot of the organizations listed in the above article do a lot more than abort babies. NOW in particular has done so much for women’s rights across the globe. They should be thanked for being such a strong voice against inequality and violence.
YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME, ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS?!?!!! As Catholics we should never thank any organization that murders unborn children because the organization has an ultra left-wing, radical agenda that is not consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Sometimes Catholics who believe what the above said makes me question why we don’t excommunicate any Catholic that is pro-homosexual marriage and pro-abortion (murder)!!!
Was there anything in that statement of mine condoning abortion? No.
And yes, we need to excommunicate everyone who doesn’t believe 100% what the Catholic Church says. That’ll show ‘em.
shame they have the money to promote abortion but they don’t have the guts to promote the word of God .lord have mercy.
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