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Pro-Life News & Stories
PRESS RELEASE - April 27, 2007
The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy prayerfully supports Archbishop Raymond Burke of Saint Louis for his pastoral decision to dissolve ties with the Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation for their outrageous invitation to a notorious abortion advocate for their fundraiser. Popular rock singer, Sheryl Crow, was invited to a benefit for a children’s medical center, despite the fact that she is adamantly pro-abortion and has used her fame to promote this grave evil against the unborn. The ends never justifies the means, so no matter how noble the cause, like raising money for a children’s hospital, the use of someone so well known for her abortion stand, especially by a Catholic foundation for a Catholic hospital, is unconscionable. She may do lots of good elsewhere and helping sick children is indeed a worthy endeavor but the simultaneous support of legal killing of innocent unborn children within their mothers’ wombs is a moral contradiction which cannot be given legitimacy especially by Catholic medical centers. Archbishop Burke made the correct response as did CBS when they dismissed Don Imus for his racist remarks on the air regarding the Rutgers Girls’ Basketball team. Consistency demands that not only individuals and institutions defend life and repudiate injustice, but that those same people not employ the public assistance of persons who openly espouse such evils as racism, ant-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, abortion, euthanasia, and so on. One cannot compromise principles or the natural law just to raise money even for worthy causes.
Rev. John Trigilio, Jr.
President
Confraternity of Catholic Clergy
April 27, 2007
From the Catholic League - April 26, 2007
ARCHBISHOP BURKE SHUNS SHERYL CROW
Pop singer Sheryl Crow is coming to St. Louis on Saturday to perform at the Fox Theater in a benefit concert for the Bob Costas Cancer Center at Cardinal Glennon Childrens Medical Center. St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, who is chairman of the board of governors of the Cardinal Glennon Childrens Foundation (which raises money for the Medical Center), has resigned from the board in protest of Crows participation in this event. Because Crow is an abortion-rights supporter, and because the other members of the board would not accede to his request to cancel her appearance, Burke felt that he could not in good conscience remain on the board.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue defended Burke today:
Once again, practicing Catholics who do not live in St. Louis are envious of the privileged position that Catholics in that wonderful city enjoy. Time and again, Archbishop Burke has proven to be one of the most prominent voices of moral clarity inside and outside the Catholic Church in the United States.
For a Catholic leader to give cover to someone who is not just incidentally pro-choice, but is a rabid abortion-rights activist would be morally unconscionable. To wit: Crow recently campaigned in Missouri for the right to clone human beings and destroy nascent human life, thus making her presence at a Catholic event morally incoherent. Those who are now criticizing Archbishop Burkesaying he should demur given the money being raised for a worthy causeshould explain how they would react if David Duke were scheduled to speak at a fundraising event to fight sickle-cell anemia in East St. Louis.
What Archbishop Burke has done is unfortunately controversial. It is unfortunate because his courage stands in stark contrast to the moral lassitude that is exhibited on a daily basis by religious and secular leaders throughout the nation. It is so ironic to note that the very ones who are already blasting him for being too judgmental have absolutely no qualms about condemning him. Three cheers for Archbishop Burke.
Kiera M. McCaffrey
Director of Communications
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
catalyst@catholicleague.org
ARCHBISHOP BURKE SHUNS SHERYL CROW
Pop singer Sheryl Crow is coming to St. Louis on Saturday to perform at the Fox Theater in a benefit concert for the Bob Costas Cancer Center at Cardinal Glennon Childrens Medical Center. St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke, who is chairman of the board of governors of the Cardinal Glennon Childrens Foundation (which raises money for the Medical Center), has resigned from the board in protest of Crows participation in this event. Because Crow is an abortion-rights supporter, and because the other members of the board would not accede to his request to cancel her appearance, Burke felt that he could not in good conscience remain on the board.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue defended Burke today:
Once again, practicing Catholics who do not live in St. Louis are envious of the privileged position that Catholics in that wonderful city enjoy. Time and again, Archbishop Burke has proven to be one of the most prominent voices of moral clarity inside and outside the Catholic Church in the United States.
For a Catholic leader to give cover to someone who is not just incidentally pro-choice, but is a rabid abortion-rights activist would be morally unconscionable. To wit: Crow recently campaigned in Missouri for the right to clone human beings and destroy nascent human life, thus making her presence at a Catholic event morally incoherent. Those who are now criticizing Archbishop Burkesaying he should demur given the money being raised for a worthy causeshould explain how they would react if David Duke were scheduled to speak at a fundraising event to fight sickle-cell anemia in East St. Louis.
What Archbishop Burke has done is unfortunately controversial. It is unfortunate because his courage stands in stark contrast to the moral lassitude that is exhibited on a daily basis by religious and secular leaders throughout the nation. It is so ironic to note that the very ones who are already blasting him for being too judgmental have absolutely no qualms about condemning him. Three cheers for Archbishop Burke.
Kiera M. McCaffrey
Director of Communications
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
catalyst@catholicleague.org