{"id":23981,"date":"2008-09-16T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/fordham-honors-proabortion-jus\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T14:47:28","slug":"fordham-honors-proabortion-jus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/fordham-honors-proabortion-jus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fordham honors pro-abortion Justice Breyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that&nbsp;intelligent people at Catholic institutions of higher education would know the difference between being pro-life and not. Fordham University, a &#8220;Catholic&#8221; and a &#8220;Jesuit&#8221; university&nbsp;has announced that it will give the <em>Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize<\/em> to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. The honor &#8220;recognizes one individual each year whose work, according to<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Fordham%20University.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"224\" alt=\"Fordham University.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Fordham%20University-thumb-175x224.jpg\" width=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/span>the prize&#8217;s charter, &#8216;exemplifies outstanding standards of professional conduct, promotes the advancement of justice, and brings credit to the profession by emphasizing in the public mind the contributions of lawyers to our society and to our democratic system of government.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Breyer&#8217;s&nbsp;award dinner&nbsp;is scheduled&nbsp;for October 29, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder&nbsp;how Fordham&#8217;s round heads justify this act of dissent and claim to assent to Catholic teaching. I certainly don&#8217;t recognize this bestowal of honor on a pro-abortion Supreme Court Justice as consistent with Catholic teaching. How is giving a prize for ethics congruent with the Justice&#8217;s pro-choice record? Explain this to me Father McShane? Are we now beginning to say argue that Fordham is coming out as a non-Catholic university?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/campus_resources\/public_affairs\/archives\/2008\/archive_1330.asp\">Fordham&#8217;s announcement<\/a> and&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/ldn\/2008\/sep\/08091505.html\">LifeSiteNews.com article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that&nbsp;intelligent people at Catholic institutions of higher education would know the difference between being pro-life and not. Fordham University, a &#8220;Catholic&#8221; and a &#8220;Jesuit&#8221; university&nbsp;has announced that it will give the Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. The honor &#8220;recognizes one individual each year whose work, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/09\/fordham-honors-proabortion-jus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fordham honors pro-abortion Justice Breyer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}