The church does not endorse candidates for office,” said Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George in a letter read at all masses last Sunday.
Yes, it does.
Not directly but, yes, it does.
Though John F. Kennedy, our first and only Catholic president, promised in 1960 to not impose his faith on public policy, George has said directly that Kennedy was “wrong.”
Read More...DePaul University has always been part of Chicago. What was once the school under the “el” is now the “Largest Catholic University in America.” Even now, a DePaulite’s education is bound tightly to the city itself. However, post-1968 the school began to resemble Chicago in too many unflattering ways. It saw the increasing population of Jews and Muslims and charted a course away from Vincentian evangelization and towards a new “vincentianism” or some post-modern, baseless form of interfaith with a scattered, quiet mentioning of Christianity. While at DePaul’s campus in May of 2007, and after reading through the course requirements for DePaul’s Catholic Studies major, George Weigel quipped, “Only a school in Chicago would accept either ‘Intro to Catholicism’ or ‘Catholicism in Chicago’ as its base course.”
What happened is that the university lost its base course. Societies don’t like vacuums and Chicago began to fill the culturally bankrupt campus ... Read More...
