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Jesuit University of Detroit Mercy Fails to Act on 11,000 Requests to Remove Planned Parenthood Links
By TFP Student Action   
April 13, 2010
Update, 04-17-10: The links to Planned Parenthood have been removed. However, NOW links remain and pro-abortion nun, Sister Margaret A. Farley is still listed as a board member.

Latest discovery: University board member supports abortion

At least 11,000 students and concerned parents have petitioned the Catholic University of Detroit Mercy to remove links to abortion promoters from its web site. So far the request has not been granted. Links to Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women (NOW) are still listed in two places: “career & professional resources” and “external sites of interest.”

TFP Student Action will continue its peaceful protest.

The average internet savvy webmaster could remove these pro-abortion links with ease in less than five minutes. Yet this Jesuit-Mercy university has not removed them so far, thus giving scandal to students who are faithful to Catholic teaching on abortion. The university’s seeming unwillingness to remove these links might be related to another troubling discovery.

Margaret Farley
Pro-abortion nun: Sister Margaret A. Farley.
Wolf in Nun's Habit?

Sister Margaret A. Farley, RSM is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Detroit Mercy.  Over the years, she has taken positions favorable to abortion, same-sex “marriage,” sterilization of women, divorce and the ordination of women to the priesthood. Sister Farley, who taught Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, is well known for her radical feminist ideas and open dissent from Church teaching.1

In 1984 she co-signed an ad in The New York Times by Catholics for Free Choice challenging Catholic teaching on procured abortion.  “Statements of recent Popes and of the Catholic hierarchy have condemned the direct termination of pre-natal life as morally wrong in all instances. There is a mistaken belief in American society that this is the only legitimate Catholic position,” reads part of the statement. Another co-signer of the ad is long-time Detroit Mercy faculty member Prof. Jane Schaberg, author of the blasphemous book, The Illegitimacy of Jesus.

Although the Vatican and the American Catholic Bishops2 called the signers of the ad on the carpet urging them to recant, the warning seems to have made no lasting impression on Sister Farley or Prof. Schaberg who continue to promote abortion and unorthodox ideas.

More Reasons to Pray & Protest

Sister Farley, for example, wrote Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. Published in 2006, the book distorts Catholic moral teaching beyond recognition, presenting sins against nature in a positive light.  And yet she is listed as a member of the Board of Trustees at the Catholic University of Detroit Mercy. (See listing here)

What type of faith-damaging message does this send to Catholic college students?  How can we expect the next generation to respect innocent life when professors like Dr. Jane Schaberg and board members like Sister Farley publicly reject Church teaching and Natural Law on procured abortion?

Remove Dissident Nun

TFP Student Action invites its members – students and parents – to respectfully speak out against this scandal, to be the voice of the unborn that clamor for justice, and oppose the sin of abortion.  Let us continue politely urging the University of Detroit Mercy to remove its web site links to abortion promoters.

And as we renew and intensify this peaceful protest, let us also ask for the removal of pro-abortion Sister Margaret A. Farley from the university's Board of Trustees.

Please note: Always be respectful and polite when contacting members of the hierarchy.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron
1234 Washington Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313-237-5816
Fax: 313-237-4642

University of Detroit Mercy
Rev. Gerard L. Stockhausen, S.J.
4001 W. McNichols Road – FAC 500
Detroit, MI 48221
Email: gstock@udmercy.edu
Telephone: 313-993-1455
Fax: 313-993-1534

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Footnotes

1. Anne Barbeau Gardiner, Reverend Mother Libertine, New Oxford Review, September 2009: http://www.newoxfordreview.org/reviews.jsp?did=0909-gardiner [back]
2. Statement of the NCCB Committee on Doctrine, Abortion and “Free Choice,” November 1984: http://www.priestsforlife.org/magisterium/abandfreechoice.htm [back]
 

Comments 

 
0 #22 elias 2010-06-28 22:42
how poor is the faith of that sister, opposing to the will of the FATHER. May God forgive you my dear.
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-1 #21 Antoinette Ibrahim 2010-04-23 16:48
I think if nun Margaret A. Farley does not retract her wrongdoing, repent and ask God for His Forgiveness, she should be de-frock, excommunicate & remove from anything catholic. she is not only a wolf, she is satan's crutches. he relay on her to spread his evilness & malice against our HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH. May God our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother open her eyes and enlighten her mind to realize she is a bad instrument in the hands of satan.
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0 #20 chucks hall 2010-04-21 00:39
how can anybody think that this very sr m farley is acting alone.when the apprioprate church athourity seems to have turned deaf ears.as a catholic i know that to address issues like this is very easy,especially when the diocese involve wants to tell themselves the truth.there are many of the likes of sr farley hiding in nuns veils, cunningly destroying souls. my heart bleeds at this juncture and i require every catholic above all to be more prayerful
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0 #19 Rita 2010-04-16 17:08
To "Sister Farley"...."In the name of Jesus, begone Satan!"

I really believe that in such a case the ex-communication measure should be taken. The hierarchy must first think of all of the vulnerable souls in peril due to this abomination!
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+2 #18 David York 2010-04-16 16:07
Ms Farley certainly has the right to free speech but hardly as a nun. I recommend that she find an organization other than the Roman Catholic Church whose teachings align with hers and join such an organization, leaving behind the rest of us who believe in the teachings of the Church. If she does not go willingly, I believe stronger action is required by US bishops to show her to the door.
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0 #17 Kimi 2010-04-16 15:03
PLEASE don't call this woman a NUN she is a business woman who looks at her position as a job not a person of God!
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+3 #16 FATHER LOUIS JEROME 2010-04-16 10:09
Sister should be dispensed from the religious life and ejected from her order. This seems like a great failure of the post Vatican Two Church that its leaders fail to correct error but allow it to fester and become a cancer on the entire Body of Christ which is the Church. Sincerely, Father Jerome
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+2 #15 FATHER LOUIS JEROME 2010-04-16 10:07
"Sister" Farley is really not a nun anymore. The failure of the Post Vatican church is the refusal to eject her from the order and from her vows. Contradictory pluralism has not a place in the Catholic Church and is like a cancer on the body of Christ. Sincerely, Father Jerome
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0 #14 Kim 2010-04-16 06:45
When I was a little girl, growing up in the sixties going to mass, and attending catholic schools I remember our sisters always dress appropriately you always new who the nuns were! Now not so much because EVIL has entered and is slowly destroying the Catholic faith. If our own nuns are for abortion she must be removed this is poison too our faith! "God help us!
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+3 #13 Pamela Brown 2010-04-16 06:00
I will pray for Sister Farley, she obviously believes that she is in charge and not God. People are so confused about this issue and the only thing that matters is God's truth. The Roman Catholic Church is the only one who still is proclaiming it. The gates of hell will not prevail against it. Praise be to Jesus forever and ever.
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+2 #12 Charles Rodrigues 2010-04-16 05:42
Sr.M.Farley,

Stop being scandalous and disgraceful by persuing your anti-Catholic stance. What will it profit you defying the teachings of Christ? Please I pray that you open your eyes and take the necessary steps to return to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Don't condemn your soul to eternal damnation!
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+6 #11 carmen 2010-04-15 16:33
what is the problem with the bishop? doesnt he have the power to remove her.if not what good is he in these cases?
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+4 #10 Chet Malinowski 2010-04-15 15:52
The mystery of evil turns upside down the good order of God, replacing it with the order of, or rather disorder of the devil. This disorder is a curious thing, because though superficially attractive, it hides evils which are incurable and infinite. The church for 2000 years has had to fight heretics, Since St Michael's first battle against an angel who thought to defy God, All ancient history, both sacred and profane, is but a record of this continued conflict. It's obvious which side Sister Farley has chosen to advance.
Chet Sr
Thanks for not wearing the nuns habit.
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+1 #9 Former Catholic 2010-04-15 15:49
Sister Farley is obviously another radical lesbian, socialistic, Margaret Sanger groupie who has infiltrated the Catholic Church in order to help destroy it from the inside out. Think I'm being "conspiracy theory" about this? Look at all the damage homosexual priests have managed to do to the church by molesting little boys.
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+3 #8 Pamela Rieth 2010-04-15 14:05
Can no one in authority do anything about that "sister"? I mean, she doesn't sound Catholic. Can she be dealt with by her order or her bishop? Beyond this college, when she speaks and writes as a Catholic Sister, she misrepresents the Church at all times.
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+3 #7 Gavin Dmello 2010-04-15 13:01
This is almost like the evil one in disguise of a nun. We really need to defend the pope and the church, for this is the persecution we must face.

I agree with the comment of Antoinette DeGrange, the outer sign of a Catholic, in this case the habit of a nun, must be part of a deeper relation with Christ.

I pray that she, like St Paul, experiences a strong conversion, for the good of the church.

Gavin
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+4 #6 Myles Parton 2010-04-15 12:27
She is an apostate. She clearly has abandoned the Catholic faith some time ago. I for one am tired of fake Catholics. May God have mercy on her .
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+7 #5 Antoinette DeGrange 2010-04-15 10:09
Where is the nun's habit??? This is when the trouble began when many clerics joined the world and abandoned their Catholic faith decades ago. Many have abandoned their faith and the outward signs of their Catholic religion. This woman does not in any way represent the Catholic Church or its teaching.
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+5 #4 Anonymous 2010-04-15 09:11
They need to see the documentary which exposes Planned Parenthood - called: Maafa21. It is shocking and shows the racist agenda of abortion. Preview it here: http://www.maafa21.com
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+4 #3 Mark 2010-04-15 08:39
I never cease to be baffled by such shocking revelations.... revelations of things that are "hidden" in plain sight...it takes TFP Student Action to to wake "us" up and say, "this is wrong!", giving us an opportunity to do something about it. Thank you TFPSA!
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+2 #2 Chet Malinowski 2010-04-15 08:36
Sister Margaret A Farley
In the hopes that you will read this, I ask you,at what point does the soul become united with the body? and is this a determination of when the fetus can be aborted? Where has the Catholic Church gone wrong?
Thanks Chet Sr
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+6 #1 Mrs M. McAteer 2010-04-14 13:00
Please Sister remember:
"Yes God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life." Jn 3:16-21
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