Last night, Georgetown University presented pro-abortion Senator Dick Durbin, D-IL, whose bishop recently barred him from Holy Communion, with an award for devoting “his life to the core Jesuit value of service to others.”
Georgetown President John J. DeGioia presented Durbin with the Jesuit university’s “Timothy S. Healy, S.J. Award for exemplary public service.”
This award is “conferred upon Georgetown alumni who have rendered outstanding and exemplary service to his/her profession or community in support of humanitarian causes,” according to the University.
Durbin received his bachelor’s and law degrees from Georgetown.
“I am humbled to be in the company of so many who have spent their lives in the service of others,” Durbin said in a press release. “Father Pedro Arrupe challenged all alumni of Jesuit schools to engage in the struggle for justice on behalf of the most vulnerable in our society. I have tried to meet that challenge during my time in office and am honored to be recognized by my fellow Georgetown alumni.”
“This is a smack in the face of our Catholic identity and values,” Michael Khan, a senior at Georgetown and the former President of Georgetown Right to Life, told LifeSiteNews.
Khan, the co-director of the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at Georgetown University, said, “Calling Senator Durbin, one of the most pro-abortion members of the United States Senate, a ‘humanitarian’ is an absolute disgrace.”
During his time in office, Durbin has repeatedly voted in favor of abortion on demand. He, along with 14 other Catholic senators, recently voted in favor of late-term abortion. It was this that led his ordinary, Bishop Thomas Paprocki, to tell him in accordance with canon law that he may not receive Holy Communion unless he repents.
Durbin votes for and publicly advocates against more Catholic moral teachings than just abortion. He is a strong supporter of same-sex “marriage”; the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign gives him 100% on their scorecard. He also earned a 100% from abortion lobby group NARAL.
Durbin has said anyone can be a Democrat as long as they support abortion – and that Democrats who “personally” oppose abortion need to keep that view to themselves.
In its press release, Georgetown praised Durbin for authoring “groundbreaking health care, immigration and gun-control legislation” and “landmark legislation” that banned smoking on commercial flights.
Full story at LifeSiteNews.
Perfectly illustrates how unfaithful Georgetown and the Jesuits are. Almost every Jesuit should have SJW after his name instead of SJ.
Maybe it’s time for the Cardinal Archbishop to no longer permit sacraments to be celebrated at this once-Catholic institution. This is so sad. Lord, have mercy on us all!
Since it is a Jesuit institution, I am not sure whether the Archdiocese, and the Archbishop (the local Ordinary) has jurisdiction. It may fall under the juridical authority of the Jesuit Provincial. And, we all know that he won’t do anything.
Mr. Varini,
As to the celebration of the sacraments or any other liturgy in a church or oratory located within the Archdiocese of Washington, the Archbishop [Cardinal Donald Wuerl] or his delegate has plenary power.
The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.
https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship/church-teaching/catholics-in-political-life.cfm
This is not at all surprising, given the religious order which controls Georgetown University. People call it a “Catholic” institution; however, thete aren’t any Catholics in the university’s senior administration — instead there are only Jesuits.
To whom is this surprising? Georgetown, good Jesuit institution that it once was, drank the heretical kool aid long ago,
Hence, let us hear it for Sen Durban: Rah rah sis boom bah! And another bah for the black sheep that they all are.
Why even waste time printing and reading this kind of drivel. We should be asking everyone to pray the Rosary for the conversion of the Jesuits and all the men and women they have headed down the path of
sin. May the good Lord have mercy on the Jesuit Order. There are a few wonderful Jesuits…..but they
are few and far between.
Georgetown honors a Catholic who is barred from receiving the Eucharist in his home diocese. As part of honorinf Sen. Durbin, will the Jesuits at Georgetown allow him to receive the Eucharist there?
This possibility is not outside the realm of possibility. The German bishops are considering non-Catholic spouses of Catholics to receive the Eucharist. See this link https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/cardinal
the German bishops’ conference agreed that a Protestant partner of a Catholic can receive the Eucharist after having made a “serious examination” of conscience with a priest or another person with pastoral responsibilities, “affirms the faith of the Catholic Church,” wishes to end “serious spiritual distress,” and has a “longing to satisfy a hunger for the Eucharist.”
Canon Law states 844.4. If the danger of death is present or other grave necessity, in the judgment of the diocesan bishop or the conference of bishops, Catholic ministers may licitly administer these sacraments to other Christians who do not have full communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and on their own ask for it, provided they manifest Catholic faith in these sacraments and are properly disposed.