FRI, DEC 20 --
Democratic
California Gov. Gray Davis was barred Thursday from playing Santa
Claus at a Catholic home for troubled children because he is a strong
abortion advocate (AP, December 19, 2002).
TUE,
DEC 10 -- LifeSite Daily News has learned of seven
more 'Catholic' universities and colleges in the United States which
promote Planned Parenthood on their websites. In light of San Francisco
University’s recent removal (at least temporarily) of links to the
pro-abortion organization from its website, LifeSite hopes that
this latest expose will shine a needed cleansing light.
FRI,
DEC 6 -- "Catholic"
University of San Francisco provides abortion referrals on website (LifeSite
Daily News) -- The Jesuit Catholic University of San Francisco (USF)
offers a website on pregnancy which contains three links to
"resources," -- two of which are pro-abortion!
Michigan Catholics oppose new gov's
inauguration plans
(Detroit Free Press; 12/4/2002) -- Pro-life Michigan Catholics, angered by Gov.-elect
Jennifer Granholm's pro-abortion stance, are protesting her plans to
hold an interfaith prayer service at a Catholic church before her
inauguration. The service is scheduled for the morning of Jan. 1.
In e-mail messages circulating this week, the head of a Plymouth-based
group called the Church and Truth
Project is urging members to call St. Mary's Cathedral in Lansing,
which is holding the service, and question its participation.
The group plans a prayer vigil outside the church this Sunday. It also
is asking people to call the Catholic church Granholm attends, Our Lady
of Good Counsel in Wayne County's Plymouth Township, and ask her pastor
not to participate in the service.
The head of the group, theology professor Monica Migliorino Miller,
didn't respond to a telephone message left Wednesday at her office at
St. Mary's College of Ave Maria University in Orchard Lake.
The protests are the latest Granholm has faced over the abortion issue
in her run for governor. Throughout the summer and fall, protesters
picketed across from Granholm's church.
A secretary at Our Lady of Good Counsel said Wednesday that fewer
protesters have come to the church recently. But she said at least one
person picketed across from the church last Sunday. She didn't know
whether Granholm's pastor plans to participate in the interfaith
service.
The Church and Truth Project also urged members to call Detroit Cardinal
Adam Maida and ask that he not participate in the service.
TUE,
NOV 19 -- Victor Melfa, a Massachusetts high-tech entrepreneur and fervent Catholic
has fought to restore Catholic faithfulness to the Jesuit-run College of
the Holy Cross in Worcester. And, while they don't like it -- Victor
"works to cynically manipulate the truth and to impose a narrow,
right-wing agenda on Catholic higher education," said President
Father Michael C. McFarland, S.J. -- they have taken notice! (Worcester
Telegram, 11/3/2002)
Vic has a web site for his Holy
Cross Cardinal Newman Society, dedicated to the renewal of the
Catholic identity of the College of the Holy Cross. They are an
organization of alumni, students, faculty, local community, concerned
Catholics, college leaders and others dedicated to promoting the
educational ideal espoused by John Henry Cardinal Newman and further
developed by Pope John Paul II in his Apostolic Constitution Ex corde
Ecclesiae.
TUE,
OCT 29 -- Illustrates
and encapsulates a major strain of the pathology plaguing the Church
today: (New York Times, 10/29/2002) -- Bishop
Thomas V. Daily promoted a priest despite complaints that the cleric was
advocating sex between men and boys, according to a deposition.
FRI,
OCT 18 -- ALL
pleads with Catholic bishops and priests: Expose pro-abortion Catholics to the
truth!