Flood the press! Notre Dame President 2 get honorary doctorate alongside abortionist

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The Notre Dame website reports that Kevin Christiano, associate professor of sociology is available to comment on Canadian politics and society. People are invited to contact him here:

Phone: 574-631-7371

Email: christiano.1@nd.edu

Website: newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=10833

Please ask him to comment on the Morgentaler award and Rev Malloy’s role in helping to normalizing abortion by accepting the same award from University of Western Ontario in Canada.
 
There is no mention whatsoever of the honorary Doctor of Laws being awarded to Notre Dame’s President Rev Edward A Malloy. One would think that would be newsworthy.

Those of you who would like to see an article on this award here is the contact information:

To Contact the Office of News and Information, please call:
(574) 631-7367

or send mail to:

317 Main Building
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: newsinfo@nd.edu

Fax: (574) 631-8212
 
From Associated Press 14 April 2005 Indianapolis Star:

newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=10768

Notre Dame plans to award an honorary doctorate to Francis Arinze for his dedication to interfaith dialogue. Cardinal Arinze has said, “It is not true that holiness is only expected of the clergy and others just sneak into heaven. No, no, no, it’s not good theology,”

Other cardinals who have received awards from Notre Dame are:

Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Adam Maida of Detroit (1997)

William Henry Keeler of Baltimore (1998)

Edmund Casimir Szoka of the Vatican (1999)

Agostino Cacciavillan of Italy (2000)

Walter Kasper of Germany (2002)

One would expect that they would take a dim view of a Notre Dame president being given an honorary Doctor of Laws by a university which is giving the same Doctor of Laws to an abortionist, particularly when that president has said nothing to protest the normalization of abortion inherent in the Morgentaler award. People might want to write the good cardinals and advise them of the situation. Hopefully they will speak to Rev Malloy, perhaps in private which is the charitable thing to do.
 
These are the dioceses in Indiana where Notre Dame is located. I do not know exactly where Notre Dame is and so have no idea which bishop presides. Does anyone know?

In any case a letter sent to Notre Dame’s bishop may be fruitful. Some of us sent a letter to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.

As a result Bishop Fabbro of London just published a very strong letter in the National Catholic Register about the Morgentaler side of this situation.

rcec.london.on.ca/BishopFabbroMorgentaler.htm

Hopefully we can get the Notre Dame bishop to publish a letter about the Malloy side of this situation.

Diocese of Evansville
Most Reverend Gerald A. Gettelfinger
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend
Most Reverend John M. D’Arcy

Diocese of Gary
Most Reverend Dale J. Melczek

Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Most Reverend Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB

Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana
Most Reverend William L. Higi
 
This just in from the uwoprotest site:

uwoprotest.com/news.php

**"Thursday, 28 April 2005 5:22pm **
With well over 5500 voices of protest on our petition, we have sent out a new round of media releases. Thanks again to all of you who are working hard on spreading the word of our grassroots movement. Keep it up.

In other news, we are encouraged to receive word that a major international campaign is under way to have Rev. Edward A. Malloy, President of Notre Dame University publicly refuse his honourary doctorate from Western, if Western does not reverse its decision to honour Canada’s leading abortionist, Henry Morgentaler, at this same convocation.

As we noted, there are millions in America, and around the world who support our stance; this may well be the ace that turns the tide. If what we are hearing comes through, there will be international media coverage coming to bring light on our situation; UWOProtest.com serves as a valuable documentary of public outrage here in Canada.

Once again, we publicly ask Western to reverse its decision, to consider and respond to the growing protest of those who are outraged and deeply offended by its planned action to grant an honourary doctorate to Henry Morgentaler at its 285th convocation ceremonies in June 2005. As Western alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends, we are committed to continuing our campaign to have this reversed."

I have asked William if he can put up a page on the uwoprotest website for American news on Rev Malloy. I’ll update you on that.

Thanks to everyone’s help, the Canadian media has, for the first time, taken an interest in this situation, particularly with Bishop Fabbro publishing his letter to UWO President Davenport.

The international campaign, folks is you. We really need the Catholic media and other media in the U.S. to cover the Malloy story.

So please please please click the email links I have given you to the media and get this story out there.

Please also write to the Notre Dame alumni and ask them to get on Rev Malloy’s case by promising to withhold financial donations from Notre Dame until he publicly declines the award.

This is only one step in many which need to be walked in order to end the madness of abortion. This is a window of opportunity. Let’s take full advantage and get this done. Thank you. Ani.
 
This form letter has started to go out to Notre Dame Alumni. Please feel free to copy it and send it under your own name to:

alumweb@nd.edu

or to the commentary box at:

nd.edu/~alumweb/feedback.html

Dear Alumni of NotreDameUniversity:

Rev Edward A Malloy, President of Notre Dame University, is to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Western Ontario in Canada for his “reputation as an outstanding administrator.” Ordinarily we would be happy for the alumni of such a fine Catholic university run by a man of many noble achievements.

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/story.html?listing_id=18125

However, the University of Western Ontario will be awarding this same honorary doctorate at the same June Convocation to Dr Henry Morgentaler a man who virtually put abortion on the Canadian map. Surely, in view of this, the honour to be accorded Rev Malloy will no longer be an honour but a considerable embarrassment to Rev Malloy as well as to all associated with Notre Dame, including several cardinals.

archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-107/life_society/morgentaler/

We count ourselves among many Catholics who believe that Rev Malloy has a responsibility to decline this award publicly. To allow his good name to be associated with the name of an abortionist is unconscionable; it sets an appalling example to those young Americans who attend Notre Dame, to Catholics in America, to all Americans in fact, as well as to citizens of the world.

newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=145

president.nd.edu/

In Canada, the Morgentaler angle has been confronted in the following ways:

1.0 Rev. Michael Smith of St. Peter’s Seminary has led a prayerful protest march at UWO.

lifesite.net/ldn/2005/apr/05040607.html2.0 The Catholic Civil Rights League in Canada has asked the alumni of Western to withhold further financial donations from Western until such time as President Davenport retracts his offer to Dr Morgentaler.

http://www.ccrl.ca/index.php?id=223

3.0 The Western alumni have put up a website devoted to this situation. Visitors are asked to write to university officials, clergy, and media.

http://uwoprotest.com/index.php

4.0 Western alumni have also created an online petition. Because the financiers of Western will want to see representation from the Canadian constituency, the petition is limited to Canadians at present. However, Media Relations Officer for Western Alumni Against Honouring Morgentaler William VanDoodewaard has agreed to open the petition up to Americans and to the world after 10 000 signatures or after one week, whichever happens first.

uwoprotest.com/voice.php

continued…
 
5.0 Western alumni have issued daily press releases.

uwoprotest.com/news.php

6.0 Bishop Fabbro of the Diocese of London has issued a public letter criticizing Western’s decision to grant the award to Dr Morgentaler.

rcec.london.on.ca/BishopFabbroMorgentaler.htm

7.0 The Canadian campaign is researching which clergy may have received similar awards from Western so that we can ask such clergy to comment publicly.

We respectfully ask that you consider similar steps to encourage Rev Malloy to do the right thing by declining this award publicly.

1.1 A prayerful protest march;

2.1 A public request to alumni to withhold further financial donations to Notre Dame until such time as Rev Malloy declines his award;

3.1 A webpage detailing the situation re Rev Malloy and asking visitors to write to Rev Malloy, university officials, clergy, and media;

4.1 An online petition to ask Rev Malloy to decline the award;

5.1 Daily press releases;

6.1 An email campaign to your bishop requesting a public letter;

7.1Research into which American clergy have received honorary degrees from Notre Dame, with a view to asking such clergy to comment publicly. We have learned that Notre Dame has offered Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria an honorary doctorate. Six other (living) Cardinals have already received honorary doctorates, two of whom are American: Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga (Honduras), Edmund Casimir Szoka (Vatican), Agostino Cacciavillan (Italy), Walter Kasper (Germany), and

Adam Maida (Detroit) infodesk@aod.org

William Henry Keeler (Baltimore) cardinal@archbalt.org

William VanDoodewaard is the Media Relations Officer at the Western Alumni Against Honouring Morgentaler. Mr VanDoodewaard may be reached for comment at:

mediarelations@uwoprotest.com

Tel.: 519-471-0661
 
William wrote to Dr Gerald Killan, President of King’s College at Western. This is the college which is awarding Rev Malloy the honorary Doctor of Laws. King’s College is a Catholic college. Today, William asked him to stand down on the Malloy award. Here is Dr Killan’s reply:

“I am absolutely opposed to those who argue that Rev Malloy be encouraged to refuse an honorary degree from Western. I have been working vigorously to ensure that the opposite happens. Father Malloy understands the situation completely, and has confirmed he is coming. He knows that he will be speaking to the affiliated denominational college graduates. We want him here to represent our value system and beliefs. We think it would be
tantamount to cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face to urge Father Malloy to decline the degree, leaving our convocation
empty, while Morgentaler gets a degree two days later. I can be no more clear than this–and on this matter, my mind is fixed.
Sincerely
Gerry Killan”

It sounds to me that Mr Killan is worried that he won’t have a celebrity at his convocation. As for wanting Rev Malloy at King’s to represent our (Catholic) value system and beliefs: that is absolute nonsense.

So far we have heard not a peep out of Rev Malloy about our Catholic value system and beliefs other than he is “aware Morgentaler was a co-recipient of an honorary degree.” Rev Malloy, as a Catholic educator has had ample window of opportunity to promote the Culture of Life. Has he done that? No.

Instead he has dissembled, impying that since Morgentaler and he are receiving their awards from separate colleges, everything is going to be just fine.

“Father Malloy will accept the honorary degree since it will come from the affiliated university colleges of Western Ontario, which have a separate convocation within the university’s framework,” the statement [from Notre Dame] said.

And neither have we heard a word from Dr Killan, President of (Catholic) King’s College at Western. He too has had ample window of opportunity to espouse on the evils of abortion. Has he done that? No. All he has said is imho he wants his celebrity and he’s a gonna git 'im.

Please people email him and call his bluff. Ask him why he hasn’t spoken as a Catholic educator against the Morgentaler award and against the normalization of abortion which this award means.

Ask him why he is aiding and abetting the denigration of Rev Malloy’s reputation by insisting that Rev Malloy accept a degree tainted by association with Dr Morgentaler’s long career in abortion.

News is also out that the University of Western Ontario is losing millions worth of donations and funding because of the decision (the donation and matching funding loss from one donor alone being over $4 million). How many more millions of dollars does Dr Killan want to lose before he puts his integrity where his job is?

Here is Dr Killan’s email address:

gkillan@uwo.ca
 
Here is a phone number which people can dial.
519- 661-2111

When you get through, ask for the direct line through
85006

Then leave a message saying that you believe Rev Malloy should decline his honorary doctorate to protest against this same doctorate being awarded to Dr Henry Morgentaler who is an abortionist.

On line, you can contact the Senate’s Honorary Degree Committee.
 
Ani Ibi:
Both of you are disrupting this thread. I have asked the mods to intervene and hope that you will take any of the following options:
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If you want your own thread, start your own website. Other than that, you get what you get. Without comment, this would be advertizing for your cause.

I’m outta here.

John
 
King’s College, where Rev Malloy is being offered his honorary Doctor of Laws, is Catholic. Dr Killan, the President of King’s, just doesn’t get it. He insists that Rev Malloy should come. He thinks that Rev Malloy will make us feel better by giving a speech about ‘our values.’

Ha! We are supposed to believe what he says or the complete lack of action on his part or on Rev Malloy’s part. Rev Malloy is also President of a Catholic University – Notre Dame. This whole controversy has given ample window of opportunity for Malloy, a Catholic educator, to give press conferences on his opposition to abortion and on alternatives to abortion. Has he done that? No!

I can’t hear what they are saying or not saying anymore. I can only see what they are doing or not doing. Why should we let them off the hook? Do they think it is easy for us to be Catholics out here in the secular world? It’s horrible! Some leadership would be nice. Well duh! They are leaders! Are they leading us? Sure: straight over a cliff to our demise by a secular press who is just grinning with glee at the mere prospect of photo-ops and news clips with Dr Morgentaler.

No no no! What I need to see is a weekly press release from Malloy and from Killan against abortion and for alternative treatment plans.

I need to see the King’s convocation moved off-campus completely to a notable Catholic site.

And frankly I need to know that Bishop Fabbro has vetted Malloy’s acceptance speech and that that speech demonstrates moral authority by what it says and by the sacrificial struggle with which Malloy has engaged in good conscience to say it.

When all those things are in place, then I will be good with Malloy accepting the award. But not before. There is far too much at stake. However, if Killan and Malloy continue the way they are going why should we not ask that the archdiocese (I guess that would be good old Cardinal Ambrozic) disacknowledge their colleges as Catholic institutions, just the way Marymount Manhattan College was? Here is the link:

cardinalnewmansociety.or…_Catholic.ht m
 
Whoah! This Dr Killan is beginning to sound a little heterodox to me. Listen to this:

"When asked by the interviewer if students were expecting a Catholic education, Dr. Killan interrupted saying, 'Nobody does that.” When pressed further about the catholicity of his position, he replied: 'Don’t tell me Catholics think…’. The Catholic Church’s position is this (pro-life, pro-traditional marriage). But Catholics are listening to a lot of things.”

“Killan had no qualms about his position, when asked about it. ‘Even if I got 200 calls, I wouldn’t intervene to stop a legitimate speaker on a legitimate topic.” Faithful Catholic institutions generally consider that pro-abortion speakers are not “legitimate speakers,’ no matter what topic they are speaking on.”
The ‘legimate speaker’ about whom Dr Killan is speaking is Jack Layton, leader of the Federal New Democrat Party (socialist). Mr Layton is militantly pro-abortion.

Dr. Killan can be contacted with comments at:

**519-433-3491 **
**1-800-265-4406 **

kings@uwo.ca

Let’s phone or email him folks and explain to him that as long as he refuses to compromise about inviting a pro-abortion speaking such as Jack Layton to the King’s convocation and as long as he refuses to compromise about inviting Rev Malloy to accept the same award being given to Dr Morgentaler, then you refuse to compromise in asking Cardinal Ambrozic to disacknowledge King’s College as a Catholic institution, just like Marymount Manhatten College in New York. In fact, while you’re at it, you may consider asking that Notre Dame be disacknowledged as well.
 
Finally! I found Notre Dame President Rev Edward A Malloy’s email address! It was on an anti-drinking page. Malloy has been involved quite deeply in the fight against substance abuse. He seems to be orthodox too; but I have only just started googling him.

Rev Edward A Malloy, CSC
Tel 574 631 6755
email: malloy.5@nd.edu
 
As well as receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Kings College at University of Western Ontario, Rev Malloy will be awarded Portland University’s highest honour the Cristus Magister Medal. The award ceremony will be in the Chiles Center on May 1 – tomorrow!

We will have to listen to the news, surf the net, and maybe just plain ask Portland or Notre Dame for a transcript of what he said. I’m hoping he does the right thing and defends the Culture of Life.

Malloy has served the Catholic Church on the Vatican Secretariat for Non-Believers, the Ex Corde Ecclesiae and Bishops-Presidents committees of the U.S. Catholic Conference, the World Congress of Catholic Educators, and the Sister Thea Bowman Black Catholic Educational Foundation.

The gay community at Notre Dame seem very angry with him because he forbade a gay film festival there.
 
CORRECTION: Jack Layton is not introducing the Kings convocation in June; he has already spoken at Kings on February 11. My apologies for the error. Ani.
 
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