Catholic News Item Proves to Be Not So New at All (Clinton speech flap)

[Rose Siding]

The reports spread quickly yesterday through Catholic news services and religious Web sites: Marymount Manhattan College had been declared no longer a Roman Catholic institution after inviting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to give the commencement address next month.

The Cardinal Newman Society, a group that works to keep Catholic schools Catholic and had led protests against the scheduling of Mrs. Clinton as the speaker, announced the news in a press release, in which it applauded the archbishop of New York for "courageously" severing a "wayward" college.

There were only two problems. Marymount, a liberal arts school on the Upper East Side known mostly for its secular programs in theater and dance, has considered itself nonsectarian for many years. It was being stripped of a nonexistent status.

And the archdiocese said it had taken no action against Marymount. It, too, has not thought of Marymount as a Catholic school in quite a while.

http://nytimes.com/2005/04/30/nyregion/30catholic.html

[maddezmom]

1. and it's still up at The Cardinal Newman Society website

http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/

[sniffa]

2. bwahahaha

but, their outrage was not feigned at aLL.

[juajen]

3. WOW, my daughter graduated from Marymount Manhattan and

I know it wasn't considered Catholic then. This was in 1994. I was very proud of her. No way it has been considered Catholic in many years. She was a theatre major.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. One of my late mother's favorite sayings was "Believe only half of

what you read, and none of what you hear." I don't know the origin of the saying but it's a good one.