Georgetown University to Welcome HHS Mandate Promoter Kathleen Sebelius |
| By TFP Student Action |
| May 10, 2012 |
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| Kathleen Sebelius |
The oldest Catholic university in America has invited a top pro-abortion politician, Kathleen Sebelius, to speak at its graduation awards ceremony on May 18. She will be a “great inspiration to our students,” promised Judy Feder, professor at Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute. (see link)
In the wake of the unjust Obama/HHS mandate, however, the scandalous invitation is like a deliberate poke in the eye to Catholics.
After all, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is responsible for unleashing a fierce persecution against the freedom of the Church – the Obamacare mandate – which forces Catholic individuals and institutions to violate non-negotiable moral principles and pay for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
This unprecedented attack has been strongly denounced by every U. S. Catholic Bishop. In short, our Catholic shepherds have said: “We cannot – we will not comply with this unjust law.”
Therefore, TFP Student Action is urging its members to sign a prayerful online message of concern to Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P., Secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, whose Congregation is charged with the oversight of Catholic institutions of higher learning.
Sebelius’ Pro-Abortion Record
Georgetown can hardly pretend to ignore Sebelius’ public and notorious pro-abortion record. While Governor of Kansas, she repeatedly blocked life-saving legislation aimed to curtail late-term abortions.
When she was appointed to the Cabinet, the abortion industry celebrated. “She is an excellent choice,” declared Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann
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"... Because of her long history both as a legislator and Governor of consistently supporting legalized abortion and after many months of dialogue, I requested Governor Sebelius not to present herself for communion.
"I did this in the hope that it would motivate Governor Sebelius to reconsider her support for what is an intrinsic evil – the destruction of innocent human life by abortion. I also took this pastoral action to protect others from being misled by the Governor’s public support and advocacy for legalized abortion.”
Cardinal Raymond Burke
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In 2009, the then Archbishop said Sebelius’ appointment was a “source of the greatest embarrassment because she has publicly and repeatedly betrayed her Catholic faith, in the most fundamental tenet of the moral law, that is, the law to safeguard and foster human life from the moment of its inception to the moment of natural death.”
Departing yet further from Catholic moral teaching, more recently, Sebelius joined Dan Savage’s pro-homosexual “It Gets Better Project” and recorded a public video message in support of “LGBT youth.”
Sign & send your message to the Vatican here -- NOW
A copy of your petition to the Vatican will also be forwarded to Dr. John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University.
This controversy is bigger than Georgetown – it’s about the future and freedom of the Catholic Church in America.
Useful contact information (please be polite):
Congregation for Catholic Education
Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P.
3 Piazza Pio XII
00193 Vatican
Italy
Georgetown University
John J. DeGioia, President
3700 O St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20057
Phone: (202) 687-4134
Fax: (202) 687-6660
Secretary’s email: jaf@georgetown.edu
Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Edward Montgomery, Dean
3700 O St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20057
Email: ebm48@georgetown.edu
Phone: (202) 687-7051
Comments
Just what kind of "Catholic" university Georgetown is has been proven time after time. Please recall when President Obama condescended to speak there as their guest--provided all the Catholic statuary in the background were covered.
to a "Catholic" College? What an insult to God, and to Catholics?
Ex Corde Ecclesiae, all colleges that claimed to be Catholic prior to 1991 are considered Catholic until declared otherwise by a bishop.
I am concerned as to why this university and other Catholic universities like Notre Dame are allowing such speakers on the Catholic campus to speak to Catholic Youth. What on earth do they have in common with Catholic values and morals if these speakers actually use their public positions to promote the culture of death and in it's truest form, sin itself?
Mat: 19:3-12, He also says: "Some are born that way, they aren't meant to marry!" I am passionately, and vehemently anti gay.
Besides the embarrasment to the Church that this invitation creates, there is not a single mention of Catholic doctrine in the GU Mission Statement with the exception of the introduction: "Georgetown is a Catholic and Jesuit, student-centered research university." Why not just call it a "Christian" University or even a "religious" university? GU boasts: "On any given week on our campuses, more than 50 different religious services are taking place..." It's time Church removed the designation of "Catholic" from GU.
I missed that passage apparently so I'm not sure how this woman is going against god's teachings by being pro-choice?
Abortion is the greatest form of inhumanity. To attack and kill an innocent child is most uncivilized and unjust.
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