Paris, France, Oct 26, 2004 / 22:00 pm
William McGurn, an executive with News Corp and writer of a weekly column for the New York Post regretted yesterday in Denver, CO, the misrepresentation of Catholic doctrine on life issues and politics made recently by some officials of the prestigious University of Notre Dame, once one of the most vibrant Catholic universities in the US.
McGurn, a Notre Dame alumnus, former chief editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal and a member of the University of Notre Dame’s Asian Studies Advisory Committee, delivered the “Robert P. Casey Lecture on Catholic Faith and Public Life,” on Tuesday at the John Paul II Center in Denver.
His remarks were followed by by Denver district attorney, Bill Ritter and the executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference, Timothy Dore.
McGurn, lamenting the silencing of the voice of pro-life members of the Democratic Party, said that “it simply no longer matters which name is on the Democratic ticket, because on this issue [of abortion] the party has spoken… The Democratic Party’s Catholics, Mr. Kerry included, publicly declare either that they accept that life begins at conception or are otherwise “personally opposed” to abortion, or both.”