Catholic Loyola Marymount University Announces Pro-Abortion 2010 Commencement Speakers

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Catholic Loyola Marymount University Announces Pro-Abortion 2010 Commencement Speakers

April 26, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Loyola Marymount University, a Jesuit institution in Los Angeles, has announced that Deval Patrick, the current governor of Massachusetts, and Marlene Canter, former member of the Los Angeles Unified School District board, will be speaking at their 2010 commencement; both are on record as being in favor of abortion and homosexual “marriage.”

Deval Patrick, who served as Assistant Attorney General during the Clinton administration, worked to prevent a referendum eliminating same-sex “marriage” from coming before the people while governor of Massachusetts. His campaign website boasts that he “helped lead the fight to keep discrimination out of the Massachusetts constitution and preserved the right of same-sex couples to marry in Massachusetts.”

In 2007 he signed a bubble-zone measure that prohibited pro-life counselors from coming closer to abortion clinics than thirty-five feet.

Marlene Canter, similarly, called the legalization of same-sex “marriage” an “issue of simple fairness and basic human rights.”

She continued: “We have an obligation to educate every student and support every family in this District - we can not stand by while the right to marry for all is threatened.”

lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10042608.html

Do we worship the same God?

 

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As an LMU alum, I am appalled but not surprised.

LMU – from the administration, to the faculty and students – is extremely liberal, both in politics and religion.

I’ll never forgot one Mass celebrated by the University President during which he referred to God as “she.”

One of many examples of how nearly all American institutions of higher learning, Catholic and secular, have been hijacked by the far-left.

 

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I am sure they are sincere but LMU is proudly and clearly " in the Jesuit education tradition"…which is a nice way of saying they fit into the unfortunate axiom…that there are:
a lot of Jesuit Catholic** colleges/universities…but very, very few*** Catholic Jesuit** colleges/universities* !

In football terminology…LMU is on the “catholic education” playing field…running up and down the field…playing its heart out…but LMU has not “seen the football” since the kickoff!

Catholic is mentioned** three or four times**…even with a gratuitous statement from *Ex Corde Ecclesiae *( its gratuitous because they don’t practice what they cite). They also have some “New Age-ie” style statement about "…we seek to find God in all things…"…and my favorite: *"… This means that at LMU the encouragement of learning is a radical commitment to free and honest inquiry in teaching and research—**but always with **reverence before the mystery of the universe and openness to the Transcendent.
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My bottom line…hope in new archbishop to pastorally get them back on track or deny the “Catholic” identity of the institution…and my real bottom line…why should we care…they are a “left wing-socialist-liberation theology” group…and…this is all about adults – both those working for the institution and those attending it (or with the parents consent/money) – you don’t have to be a rocket scientist or Thomas Aquinas to figure out what you are buying…you dance with who you brought to the dance!

Pax Christi
lmu.edu/about/mission/Mission_Statement.htm

LMU Mission Statement (excerpts)

         **Mission**

Loyola Marymount’s Mission and Goals Statement, approved by the Board of Trustees in 1990, succinctly states in its preamble the university’s three-fold mission:

•                      The encouragement of learning

•                      The education of the whole person

•                      The service of faith and the promotion of justice

             **Identity**

These often quoted phrases are at the heart of the campus community’s communal self-understanding. When unpacked, they tell us much about LMU’s identity as a Catholic, Jesuit/Marymount university

The Encouragement of Learning

The encouragement of learning is the first pillar of the mission. Considered together with the pursuit of academic excellence, it constitutes the overarching theme of current strategic planning that envisions LMU’s growth into one of the nation’s distinguished Catholic universities.

As a **Catholic** university,  LMU shares a rich intellectual and cultural heritage that is marked by  characteristics such as these:

•                      It  views the world as sacramental and **seeks**** to find God in all things.**

•                      It esteems both imagination and  intellect.

•                      It takes philosophical  and theological thinking seriously.

•                      It  engages in ethical discourse and pursues the common good.

•                      It eschews the supposition that there can be  value-free facts.

•                      It seeks an  integration of knowledge in which “faith and reason bear harmonious  witness to the unity of all truth” (John Paul II, Ex Corde Ecclesiae,  1990, par. 17).

As  foundational for inquiry and learning, and consistent with Catholic  emphases since the Second Vatican Council, Loyola Marymount  intentionally strives to build an intercultural community, actively  recruiting students, faculty, and staff from ethnically diverse  backgrounds. In a similar way, the university places a premium on  ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue. All religions are taken  seriously, and a genuine welcome is extended to faculty, staff, and  students of diverse faith traditions. This means that at LMU the  encouragement of learning is a radical commitment to free and honest  inquiry in teaching and research—but always with reverence before the  mystery of the universe and openness to the Transcendent.

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The Education of the Whole Person**

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The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice**

In linking active concern for the poor to the service of faith, Loyola Marymount follows the lead of its sponsoring religious communities and the post-Vatican II Church in acknowledging that work for social justice is a requirement–not simply an option–of biblical faith. Even while making common cause with men and women whose work for social justice is motivated by noble secular values, LMU finds its deepest inspiration for the promotion of justice in the concern of the Hebrew scriptures for “the widow, the orphan, and the stranger in the land” and the preference of the Gospels for the “least” of Jesus’ brothers and sisters.

LMU’s decades-old impetus to provide  educational opportunities for under-represented groups, its  long-standing community-service opportunities for students, and its more  recently established faculty grants for faith-and-justice research and  curriculum development are all part of the university’s commitment “to  work for justice as the gospel requires” (to borrow a phrase from Sister  Mary Milligan, speaking as provincial superior of the Marymount Sisters  to the university's Board of Trustees)

 

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This is very simple, my friends. If you’re an alumnus/a of a Catholic college or university, withhold your donations and urge your classmates to do the same. The bigger the withheld donation, the more clearly you’re heard.