NewmanSoc: Pro-Abortion Rights Marquette Prof Calls Archbishop Dolan ‘Rabid’

Daniel Maguire, the Marquette theology professor whose teachings the U.S. bishops have said represent outright “false teaching,” has lashed out publicly at New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan over his letter to Representative Paul Ryan concerning the U.S. budget.

In an article posted at Religion Dispatches, Maguire laments that Archbishop Dolan’s treatment of Ryan was much softer than when the prelate severely criticized and banned him from speaking at parishes in Milwaukee.
Maguire writes:

In 2006, I also received a letter form Archbishop Dolan (then Archbishop of Milwaukee where my Marquette University is located). My oh my, how different was the letter Dolan sent me from his mellifluous effusion to Ryan, criticizing my support for pregnant women making their own decisions about problem pregnancies and my defense of marriage for those whom God has made gay. He was rabid! My teaching, he said, was “preposterous and disingenuous,” “totally at odds with clear Church teaching, Sacred Scripture, the Magisterium, and Natural Law,” and “contrary to the faith and morals of the Catholic Church.” He then followed up by banning me from ever speaking in any parish of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on any topic whatsoever.

That’s Dolan when he’s serious.


But conservative Catholic Ryan is a different case. In the terms of the bishops’ pelvic-zone orthodoxy, Ryan is pure.

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