Green Bay Catholic bishop opposes Gloria Steinem visit

[rug]

Patti Zarling, Press-Gazette Media
3:20 p.m. CST January 31, 2015

DE PERE – Bishop David Ricken of the Green Bay Catholic Diocese has urged top leaders at St. Norbert College to reconsider a campus visit this spring by feminist activist Gloria Steinem.

"Unless she has radically changed her position on abortion, which I hope she has, the connection of abortion rights to the feminist agenda is a sad one and calls into question the logic of such an enterprise," Ricken said in a recent written statement.

Steinem is set to visit the private Catholic college with bell hooks, who is conducting a week-long residency at the school and invited Steinem for a public discussion about the history of the women's movement, according to St. Norbert College spokesman Mike Counter.

Throughout the week, the social-justice scholar hooks will host a number of talks related to her work on topics including the theology of love and radical hospitality, community building and racial inequality. She and Steinem will participate in a dialogue on April 21, Counter said.

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/2015/01/30/green-bay-catholic-bishop-opposes-gloria-steinem-visit/22601929/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks

Can't have those students exposed to radical hospitality and equality.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

1. Specifically, Steinem is there to speak about domestic violence,

Which has nothing whatsoever to do with abortion.

The bishop is making himself look like an ass.