Wednesday, October 25, 2006
GEORGETOWN, THE "CATHOLIC" UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON, October 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – "Few have accomplished as much as Fr. Drinan, and fewer still have done so much to make the world a better place." So said T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean of the Georgetown University Law Center on Monday, as he honoured one of the US’s most infamous and aggressive crusaders for abortion, Jesuit priest, Robert Drinan. The ceremony at Georgetown was to name a new faculty chair for human rights after Drinan.
Catholic News Agency quotes Aleinikoff saying, "This new Chair honours Fr. Drinan's lifelong commitment to public service and will allow us to bring distinguished human rights scholars and advocates to Georgetown Law.”
Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, head of Human Life International, called the honour, “deeply disturbing” and “hypocritical.” In a statement, Euteneuer condemned the creation of a faculty chair for human rights “in the name of a heretical priest who has spent much of his lifetime advocating for the most heinous of human rights violations: abortion.”
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For shame, Georgetown. It is outright dishonesty to advertise yourself as a Catholic school while making this announcement.
