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JAG sent this in from the Cardinal Newman Society:

In what can only be interpreted as a  direct challenge to America’s Catholic bishops, Georgetown University has  announced that “pro-choice” Catholic Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary  of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and lead architect of  the Obama administration’s assault on religious freedom through the HHS  contraception mandate, has been invited to speak at one of Georgetown’s  several commencement ceremonies.

The Cardinal Newman Society has posted a petition to protest this outrage  here: GeorgetownScandal.com.  It has also alerted  Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl and sent a letter to Georgetown President  John DeGioia urging him to immediately withdraw the invitation.

Last week The Cardinal Newman Society released a list of 11 scandalous  commencement speakers at Catholic colleges and universities, as well as a  report on homosexual “lavender graduations” including one at Georgetown.

The nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university has chosen to honor  Sebelius by granting her a prestigious platform at its Public Policy  Institute commencement ceremony, despite her role as the lead architect of a  healthcare mandate that will force Catholic institutions to pay for  contraception, abortifacients and sterilization against their religious  beliefs. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has termed the  mandate “an unwarranted government definition of religion” that is  “alien both to our Catholic tradition and to federal law,” “a  violation of personal civil rights” and “a mandate to act against  our teachings.”

But Secretary Sebelius’ record on abortion is at least as troubling as the  mandate. When Governor of Kansas,  Sebelius supported abortion rights and vetoed pro-life legislation.  In  2008, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas    City reportedly told Sebelius, a Roman Catholic, to  stop receiving the Eucharist until she publicly recants her position on  abortion and makes a “worthy sacramental confession.”

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