Pro-Life Wisconsin: Why all the Feingold fuss?

Why all the fuss over a law school professor, you ask?

For starters, Marquette University identifies itself as a “Catholic and Jesuit” university.  The Catholic Church opposes abortion in all cases. An institution that identifies itself as Catholic but strays from Catholic principles only furthers pro-abortion attempts to create division where there is none.

Feingold is hardly Marquette’s first controversial professor, however. Two current Marquette professors are also on the Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin board – Jacqueline Boynton and Daniel Maguire.

Jacqueline Boynton is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School and an ex-officio member of PPWI’s board.

Daniel Maguire is a tenured professor in the theology department at Marquette and an emeritus member of PPWI’s board. Maguire’s views on Catholicism and abortion resulted in Archbishop Dolan banning Maguire from all Archdiocesan churches.

Feingold’s appointment is hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with Marquette, but why do we content ourselves with sighing and shaking our heads at news such as this, rather than demanding more from “Catholic” universities?

In January 2010, the Marquette Law School included Planned Parenthood in its list of community organizations recommended to students. Read an article from Catholic Culture here. Planned Parenthood has since been removed from that listing.

As the Cardinal Newman Society blog notes, "Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic universities, Ex corde Ecclesiae, stipulates, 'All teachers and administrators, at the time of their appointment, are to be informed about the Catholic identity of the institution and its implications, and about their responsibility to promote, or at least to respect, that identity'."

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