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Massachusetts Bishop calls down “Catholic” College
Posted October 12, 2007 , By Joshua LeBlanc
Bishop Robert McManus of the Diocese of Worchester, MA has issued a warning to Holy Cross College, a Jesuit run institution in his Diocese, that he may remove their permission to represent themselves as a Catholic Institution unless they revoke invitations to Planned Parenthood and NARAL to give presentations at an upcoming conference. Bishop McManus has recently announced that he has urged the college to cancel the entire conference, but it unclear at this time if the college plans to heed the bishop’s warning. Extremely impressing is the bishop’s statement that the organizations presenting "promote positions on artificial contraception and abortion that are contrary to the moral teachings of the Catholic Church." and that this could "situation of offering scandal understood in its proper theological sense, i.e. an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil."
In this day of what I would call "ecclesial democracy" its nice to see a bishop who tells it like it is, I simply wish that Bishop McManus had done like Cardinal Spellman and the like and simply said that this is way things will be and if you don’t comply, here are the consequences. I understand he is trying to be diplomatic but I think institutioons like this may be more quick to respond if they understood the bishops meant business. Hat tip to His Excellency for standing up and making a statement and actually require a Catholic college to hold Catholic teaching. Who would have thought that?
Topics: Church Hierarchy |
