Daniel Vitz notes a pro-abortion religious group has released a film that clams to “explore the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faith traditions that support” abortion. In other words, it pushes pro-abortion propaganda by twisting legitimate faith traditions (dogmas and doctrines) in order to manufacture a right to abortion that salves the consciences of pro-abortion Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
“The president of the Board of Directors of The Religious Consultation is Daniel C. Maguire, a Professor of Moral Theology at Marquette University. The Religious Consultation is an international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars.”
For those who have forgotten, Marquette is a Catholic Jesuit University. Maguire teaches in the Moral Theology Department!?!?!?! I would be disturbed no matter what department he taught in, but as Ralph McInerny has said, “Theology is not just another academic discipline. It can be meaningfully engaged in only by one who believes.”
Mark me down as not surprised that either Maguire or a Jesuit university is involved.
“Thou shalt kill”, “thou shalt kill”… Hm, I know it’s in there somewhere!
I’d never heard of Maguire recently, but profiled him on my blog. In one of the articles on his website, he claims that the Crufixion is merely a political protest, and the idea that Christ died for our sins is “lousy theology popularized by Mel Gibson’s gorefest.”
Maguire was mentioned a lot while Weakland was going through his little media blitz before his retirement, don’t remember the exact context though.
Dear precious holy innocents,
You will receive Justice.
All in God’s time.
I regret to admit that dh & I both graduated from a Jesuit university. The sort of garbage which Maguire teaches at Marquette is just one reason why our children attend a small southern state university.
These “progressive feminist religious scholars” tend to view anyone who holds to the Faith as beneath them. Yet as you read their comments, you can almost feel their fear. If only they did not lead astray impressionable young people, I’d feel more pity for them than anger.