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Fordham’s Folly
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:07 AM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at Fordham's commencement. (fordham.edu)
The New York Post reports that Fordham University did not disclose its decision to honor New York’s pro-abortion Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York.
Bloomberg received an honorary degree last weekend at Fordham’s commencement and also spoke briefly at the ceremony.
“Dolan was ‘unaware that the mayor was speaking/getting a degree’ at Saturday’s commencement at the Jesuit school’s Bronx campus, his spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, wrote in an e-mail yesterday,” the Post reported.
Fordham has a history of honoring pro-abortion public figures and of failing to consult with the archbishop of New York. Cardinal Edward Egan, who served as New York’s archbishop until he was succeeded last month by Archbishop Dolan, rebuked the university last fall after the Fordham School of Law bestowed an honor on pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
At that time, following discussions between Cardinal Egan and Fordham, Zwilling said, “As a result of these discussions, the cardinal is confident that a mistake of this sort will not happen again,” The New York Times reported.
But the Post notes in its article that pro-abortion New York Sen. Chuck Schumer also “spoke at Fordham Law’s graduation in Manhattan on Sunday again apparently without Dolan’s knowledge.”
So unfortunately, it now appears clear Cardinal Egan’s confidence that Fordham would not repeat its folly of honoring a pro-abortion public figure — and not even having the courtesy to consult beforehand with its local bishop about doing so — was entirely unfounded.
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