Whats Catholic about bashing a Catholic cardinal for upholding Catholic doctrine?
Truth is powerful. Three words of self-evident truth have terrorized Georgetown University and propelled it to front-page news above the fold: Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinzes graduation address on May 17 enumerated the behaviors that undermine the stability of todays families. The cardinal placed himself under siege by also saying that the family is mocked by homosexuality. In an institution once dedicated to truth, the firestorm resulting from three isolated words is a surreal phenomenon. Family breakdown is responsible for the meteoric rise in nearly all the social pathologies that plague our society today. Pointing this out at a graduation ceremony was a highly appropriate and responsible thing to do. Does anyone really believe that contraception, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, pornography, fornication, adultery, homosexuality and divorce, all mentioned by the cardinal, are good for families? If Georgetown had found a suitable substitute for the family, the basic unit of ordin
