Abortion Advocacy, Sex Contests Have No Place in Catholic Education

Abortion Advocacy, Sex Contests Have No Place in Catholic Education This article at the National Catholic Register is written by Patrick Reilly, president and founder of The Cardinal Newman Society. What kind of lunacy must this be, when the Pope unambiguously calls abortion “murder,” yet a Catholic university hosts a fundraiser to support America’s largest abortion business? Or when students at a Catholic high school walk out in protest of a pro-life speaker? Or Catholic college students compete for numbers of sexual conquests? “Catholic education is an expression of the Church’s mission of salvation and an instrument of evangelization: to make disciples of Christ and to teach them to observe all that he has commanded.” If ever the need for a renewal of truth and fidelity in our Catholic education was more obvious, it is certainly clear now.  Faithful alumni of Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles — sponsored by the Jesuits, Marymount Sisters, and Sisters of St. Joseph in Orange — are urging signatures on a petition protesting a university-hosted fundraiser for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood that is scheduled for tonight. The fundraiser is sponsored by a student group, LMU Women in Politics. Continue reading at the National Catholic Register…Donate today Photo: Xavier Hall at Loyola Marymount University (public domain)