Sep 6, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The Catholic hospital foundation that has named its new $25-million trauma center after former New York mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said it was honoring a man whose leadership was heroic after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. But that honor, bestowed on a pro-abortion Catholic Republican, has got pro-life groups riled.
The honor smacks in the face of the U.S. bishops’ June document, which states that Catholic politicians who support abortion legislation should be denied honors from a Catholic institution.
"If you would name a center after somebody, certainly that would qualify as an honor," said Fr. Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, calling the naming "troublesome."
The priest and EWTN personality lives in Staten Island.