Campion not officially Catholic. Tobacco's end of the road. PBS dissed. The pursuit of OxyContin. More Uncle John. Frank Natoli responds. Plus much more.
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CAMPION AND THE CARDINAL
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Re: The Prowler's
Clerical
Losers
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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.
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--
Robert Royal
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Campion College of Washington, D.C.
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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.
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--
G. MacAulay
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