American Needs Fatima writes

American Needs Fatima writes September 12, 2011

The latest blow to the Catholic identity of Catholic education comes from the Jesuit Seattle University School of Law, where a professional assisted-suicide lobbyist teaches a course called “Law, Medicine, and Ethics at the End of Life.”

Send your instant e-protest message today to Fr. Stephen V. Sundborg, SJ, President of Seattle University

  Katherine Tudor adjunct professor of law at Seattle University School of Law, does more than just teach.

  In fact, she works as a professional advocate for Compassion and Choices, formerly known as The Hemlock Society. The admitted mission of Compassion and Choices is to uphold the “right to seek aid in dying to avoid intolerable suffering.”

  To give a platform to someone who openly opposes Church teaching flies in the face of Seattle University’s Catholic identity and duty.

  In light of the recent United States Conference of Catholic Bishops document, “To Live Each Day With Dignity,” this failure on the part of the university is even more blatant.

  The document states: “People who request death are vulnerable… To offer them lethal drugs is a victory not for freedom but for the worst form of neglect.”

  Seattle University’s decision to employ a person who openly opposes and professionally undermines Catholic teaching is a disgrace that cannot go unanswered.

  That’s why I urge you to contact the university in peaceful protest.

Seattle University: The Jesuit’s thumb in the eye of the Archdiocese of Seattle. These are the people, after all, who hired a Muslim-Episcopalian priestess to teach the New Testament.

I would sooner send my kids to Bob Jones University–where they at least know that their faith is regarded with contempt–than to Seattle U, where they might make the mistake of thinking they were going to a Catholic school.


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