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| Renewing Catholic Higher Education | June 21, 2011 |
| Advocates of assisted suicide are teaching at Jesuit universities despite the U.S. Catholic bishops' opposition to the immoral practice, according to a new report from The Cardinal Newman Society. On Thursday the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued "To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide" and cautioned about an "aggressive nationwide campaign" of "assisted suicide proponents."But in a special report published today in Crisis Magazine, Cardinal Newman Society President Patrick J. Reilly uncovers scandalous associations between the assisted suicide movement and current and recent professors at four major Jesuit universities: Georgetown University, Marquette University, Santa Clara University and Boston College.Reilly notes that it was a "particular irony" that the assisted suicide statement should be released simultaneously with the U.S. bishops' ongoing 2011 review of Catholic colleges' implementation of Vatican guidelines for Catholic higher education in the 1990 constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae.Writes Reilly: "[These professors] have done more than betray the Catholic Church when they advocated assisted suicide from their platforms at Jesuit universities. Their primary credentials are (or were) as Jesuit university professors. Their participation in academic societies and symposia and journals has depended on their teaching and research positions at major universities. When dealing with ethical issues, no doubt their affiliation with Catholic universities has opened many doors."In no small way, then, Catholic universities are partly responsible for such professors' influence by virtue of their employment. Academic freedom protects professors' rights to seek truth according to the methods of their discipline. But when professors deny the truths of faith and disregard the common good—especially of those whose lives are snuffed out prematurely—they violate the mission of a Catholic university."The special report "Bishops Betrayed on Assisted Suicide" is published  The Cardinal Newman Society | |
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Assisted Suicide betrayal in the Church
