The following comes from a May 6 story on the website of the Cardinal Newman Society.
An alumni group committed to protecting the Catholic identity of Loyola Marymount University is calling on President David Burcham to rescind an invitation to the president of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles to speak on the Jesuit campus, according to RenewLMU’s website.
Sue Dunlap, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, is scheduled to speak about “Education’s New Role in Women’s Health” as part of the TEDxLoyolaMarymountU conference taking place on campus later this month.
LMU’s School of Education is, according to RenewLMU, listed as the sponsor of the conference. The dean of the School of Education is Professor Shane Martin, who chaired the search committee for a new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and recently selected Robbin Crabtree, who previously worked with a Planned Parenthood-sponsored clinic.
RenewLMU, in their open letter to President Burcham, wrote:
Given LMU’s commitment to diversity, LMU would never give the leader of an organization responsible for promoting and performing racist actions the honor of a speaking platform at LMU, especially in the form of a Tedtalk video that may well be seen by thousands or even millions of people. Given LMU’s stated commitment to justice for the unborn and Roman Catholicism, no platform should be given to the leader of an organization responsible for committing countless acts of injustice against children in utero. Just as there should be no public and lasting link between LMU and an organization engaged in racist activities, so too there should be no public and lasting link between LMU and the largest provider of abortion in the United States. Already, even high school students are being encouraged to participate in what is described as an LMU hosted event.
We are asking you to immediately withdraw the invitation to the President of Planned Parenthood to speak at Loyola Marymount University.
Last year, in his convocation address, President Burcham characterized abortion as “first and foremost primarily women’s issues,” RenewLMU reported. He also vowed that the “pall of orthodoxy” would not “shackle” the Los Angeles-based Jesuit University.
See more here.
For requirements on Universities /Colleges that advertise themselves as “Catholic”.
APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION of the SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II
on CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES
https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_15081990_ex-corde-ecclesiae_en.html
Code of Canon Law – – Book III, Title III, on Catholic Education.
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM
Send documentation including this article to: Archbishop Gomez asap asking him to solve the problem with Loyola Marymount University.
The are in violation of the Apostolic Constitution.
What is the the email for Archbishop Gomez? I’ve tried many possibilities.
Just because someone works for the biggest chain of baby killers, does not mean they know anything about woman’s health. What is wrong these bad willed people! Shame on them, how badly does the evil one wants to destroy the church? Bad enough to have speakers like this woman!
Apparently, Satan wasn’t available.
Tweet the Pope. #SocialJusticeFAIL
LMU’s president is not Catholic, so why should he care? BTW, LMU had their Lavender Graduation last weekend.
Why is it usually a Jesuit school that snubs the Magisterium?
Well that explains it. Why did LMU hired this guy in the first place?
Ana, you might want to look up and read about the Land O’Lakes conference held in July 1967. Understanding that conference will dispel any question as to why LMU – or any other Catholic institute of higher ‘learning’ – hires and/or invites anyone to speak and teach.
This is Mortal Sin! God help us! Don’t Catholic university priests and lay employees go to Confession any more?? Don’t they have the least bit of faith in God, or the least bit of a moral conscience, any more?? All of these people deserve excommunication– and even that is too soft on them, for promoting the crime of abortion! So many once-excellent Catholic universities are now nothing but sleazy, low-class, immoral pig-pens! With no religion, nor morality, nor academic professionalism!
Linda Maria, I couldn’t agree more.
The explanation of how this could come to be has everything to do with the Land O’Lakes conference held in July 1967. Understanding that conference will dispel any question as to why LMU – or any other Catholic institute of higher ‘learning’ – hires and/or invites anyone to speak and teach.
Yet another fruit of the ’60s.
Linda Marie,
Wrong! their “religion” is ammoralism!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher, Founding Director
Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc
And does anything happen to apostate colleges and universities? Nope. Now we have Walter Cardinal Kasper spouting off about remarriage and Holy Communion and now he is advocating birth control. Hard to argue that Vatican II didn’t open the gates of hell in the form of heresy, dissent and
heterodoxy. Domine, miserere nobis. +JMJ+
Please consider what I take to be critical point.
While free speech has limits, what’s chiefly at issue in PP’s LA prez coming to LMU is not what PP says. The chief issue is what PP does and that for which its directors share a major responsibility: the deliberate and routine killing of unborn human beings.
It’s really past time for President Burcham to resign. Perhaps his Jesuit advisors, God love them, will take advantage of the Open Enrollment period at the Los Gatos Jesuit retirement facility. There the eminent and faithful Jesuit, Fr. James Schall, will be able to provide them with in-house tutorials.
Professor Hanink,
Do you know of anyone planning a demonstration like we CRCOA. Inc. did when Brennan was honored? If so, please let us know. I already asked Mike Engler the same question and we are willing to work with any reputable group that does so.
I am usually at the Anaheim PP Killing Center on Saturdays, but I guess I can change that.
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
There are Catholics and there are Catholics. Apparently this university is not representative of real Catholism and should be recognized as such. Yes, evil is alive and well and in our halls of learning, but will NOT win. Keep the faith.
My Brother-in=Law, Ray Haskell starred on the last LMU Football Team, and he knew my Giants of Jesuits then. He won’t give them one penny now!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
This invitation to speak must be fought and, while at it, ask for the resignation of President Burcham. In fact, LMU should very much be seeking to burnish its orthodoxy. It is a “Catholic” school and should be modeled as one. Unfortunately, Pope Benedict XVI stepped down and represented, as suggested by one writer, the sole oasis of orthodoxy in a desert of mal-administration of the Church since Vatican II. Pope Francis seems incapable, and not at all willing, to try to reign in liberal excesses, instead seeming to embrace clownish theologans such as Cardinal Kasper as spokesmen. The storm seems to be raging again with shouts of “try harder . . . implement Vatican II more fully.” This is just like the “Cultural Revolution” in China, the destruction of the country in an effort to mask the complete and utter failure of Mao and crazy communism. What will happen in October? Does Francis even care about Catholic education at all? The nutty emphasis on “dialogue” and on advancing the inane notions of Vatican II as some kind of “supre-dogma” has lead to the almost complete destruction of the Church. And yet, and yet, they still call for more. LMU is symptomatic of a Faith that is lost. Perhaps the pro-choice and homosexual sexual rights Catholics will win out in the end (although not at the true and final end). This invitation is simply indefensible, but who cares?
TIME TO TAKE THEIR ‘CATHOLIC’ IDENTIFY AWAY, OFFICIALLY!!!
They haven’t been Catholic for years.
I have 3 words for them…..EX CORDE ECCLESLAE!!!
Where is Archbishop Gomez?!?
RIGHT ON !!!! WHERE IS ARCHBISHOP GOMEZ ????????????
If a miracle happens, and I am proven wrong by Arch. Gomez on this issue, I will joyfully admit I was wrong, but I sure am not going to hold my breath waiting for it, suicide is still serious matter!
Charles, go to any Demoncrat sponsored demonstration on behalf of illegals and chances are you will find him there, can’t be bothered with rebellion against Our Lord, His Mother, and their Church, more important issues to address! Do I sound bitter, YES I am bitter, pray for his compromised soul.
I remember when he first came here and I tried to warn people about his record at his prior assignment, I was attacked for revealing the truth. I wish I could say that I have the last laugh, but this is hardly a laughing matter.
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher
Archbishop Gomez as the Ordinary has the unilateral power to order LMU to stop calling itself Catholic. Will he do it because of this issue? NOPE! Now let’s get as wily as serpents as Scripture says….. let’s convince the Archbishop of the lie that LMU is opposing illegal immigration —-then we will see some action from the Archbishop.
St. JP2 used to call Cardinal Mahony “Cardinal Hollywood” maybe we should call Gomez Bishop DC since he spends all his tine in Washington lobbying Congress.
How much authority does the Archbishop have over a university run by an order of priests rather than one run by a diocese? If the Archbishop were to declare the school to be not catholic, couldn’t they still use the term. A university can call themselves whatever they want to call themselves. When I look around at “catholic” colleges mission statements, most don’t call themselves Catholic, but refer to themselves as “in the catholic tradition.” They really don’t, and haven’t for many years, teach Catholicism; faith, beliefs, catechism, etc.. There are very few schools where parents can send their kids for a catholic education. What is available, with few exceptions, are schools run by catholic orders who may or may not be orthodox.
Any of the schools that FRAUDULENTLY state they are “Catholic” or are in the “Catholic Tradition” to dupe people into paying tuition / attend – should be called out very very PUBLICALLY by the Diocese Bishop if they do not conform according to:
https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_jp-ii_apc_15081990_ex-corde-ecclesiae_en.html
and
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM
No Parent would want to send their children to a University that TEACHES FRAUD by example.
It would be better if the fraudulent University removed the word “Catholic” from all their advertising and university property, if they do not wish to be truly Catholic.
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It would be better to send your children to schools that you know are secular and do not LIE about their ties to the Catholic Faith.
You can not trust TRUSTEES or University Administration who are a bunch of liars.
BAD PUBLICITY can do much damage to the reputation of any school, college or university for years to come.
When they teach FRAUD by their example, the Board of Trustees and University Administration can not be trusted by anyone.
However, more importantly Parents and Students must not be duped by dishonest educators.
Perhaps all is not lost. Traditionalist blogs are full of possible SSPX-Rome agreement talk. If so, the SSPX will bring a shiver of Orthodoxy to Catholic life in many ways; including in education. Until then, we have Mr. Politico-Abp. Gomez, who yearns for immigration reform, and the shocking use of the Eucharist to politicize immigration demands, to rely on (hahaha). American Catholics would be better off by simply shutting down the USCCB entirely, and sacking the great majority of American bishops. What a thought! Save your contributions; give to the many truly needy and deserving Catholic organizations, and those few diocese that deserve your money, such as Madison, WI (and a very few others). Traditionalist orders and societies are also needing of funds, including the FSSP and the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. The Little Sisters of the Poor (Richmond, VA) are also highly deserving.
The USCCB is mandated by canon law. The laity cannot sack the bishops. Only the Pope can remove a bishop.
To help provide for the needs of the Church is a grave obligation as it is one of the precepts of the Church. You would do better to contribute to the Church as required and submit all else to prayer. Jesus, I trust in You.
FSSP and ICRSS are not traditionalist orders, but rather a priestly fraternity and a society which are in full communion with the Catholic Church.
The return of the SSPX is something we all pray for.