Theology and Society<\/a><\/p>\nThis week, it was revealed that Georgetown University — America’s oldest Catholic institution of higher learning — selected Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to be a speaker at one of its graduation ceremonies on May 18.<\/p>\n
Sebelius is of the Roman Catholic faith, but is pro-abortion and the principal spokesperson for supporting the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.<\/p>\n
Consequently, a plethora of Catholics have been shocked that Georgetown chose Sebelius to be a graduation speaker. In fact, the Cardinal Newman Society has posted a petition — which thousands of people have already signed — at GeorgetownScandal.com, in an effort to protest this outrage.<\/p>\n
We agree with the Cardinal Newman Society that Sebelius should not be a speaker at Georgetown. Although Sebelius claims to be a Catholic, one would never know it from her anti-Catholic actions and beliefs.<\/p>\n
In 2008, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City told Sebelius — who was governor of Kansas at that time — to stop receiving the Eucharist until she publicly recants her position on abortion and makes a “worthy sacramental confession.” Today — four years later — Sebelius has still not followed Archbishop Naumann’s directive.<\/p>\n
Hopefully, Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl will carry out the Cardinal Newman Society request that he send a letter to Georgetown President John DeGioia, urging him to immediately withdraw Sebelius’ invitation to speak at the university.<\/p>\n
The fact is that — by inviting Sebelius to be a speaker — Georgetown is conveying its arrogance, disrespect, and indifference toward Catholicism and toward America’s Catholic bishops, all of whom have condemned the Health and Human Services contraception mandate.<\/p>\n
While we believe that a university must be free to accept all viewpoints as it works to achieve its goal of enhancing learning and knowledge, we also believe that a Catholic university has an irrevocable responsibility to support Catholic doctrine and the teachings of Christ.<\/p>\n
Indeed, by inviting Sebelius to be a speaker this month, Georgetown University has disgraced itself by promoting anti-Catholic and anti-Christian beliefs. Needless to say, it will now take Georgetown many years to regain the respect it once had as a first-rate Jesuit institution of higher learning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>You wonder why Georgetown even bothers calling itself Catholic anymore.<\/p>\n