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p> CAMPION AND THE CARDINAL br> Re: The Prowler's Clerical Losers : /p> p>Your May 11 article about Cardinal McCarrick is not entirely accurate when it states he "prevented the founding" of Campion College D.C.. Campion, should plans to create it come to fruition, would be an independent, lay-run two-year Great Books institution that voluntarily subscribes to Catholic principles. You rightly say that Campion would be a feeder school for other Catholic institutions, but we believe it would also give students who plan to finish their undergraduate work at a secular college or university a strong foundation in Catholicism and Western culture. It is true that Cardinal McCarrick has publicly expressed his belief that the Washington area does not need such a college. We hope that the cardinal or one of his successors may some day come to appreciate what we hope to do. But since Campion was never intended to be an officially Catholic college, the cardinal has not nor can he "prevent" its founding and operation. br> -- Robert Royal br> Campion College of Washington, D.C. /p> p> Thanks, great report, I imagine a few Bishops are a little nervous too, like the new hierarchy of the USBC who recently put on a Chicago style election that would have made old Mayor Daley proud. br> -- G. MacAulay /p>

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