re: #468 SanFranciscoZionist

OK, so someone answer my question! Would it have been doctrinally inappropriate for a Catholic university to have George W. Bush as a commencement speaker?

Doctrinally inconsistent. To the same extent and for the same reason it was for Obama. Bush is in direct opposition to Catholic teaching on the death penalty.

And I bet they would have invited him anyway, and the serious anti-death penalty protesters would have been there. But I doubt any big-time Catholic donors would have withheld checks as a result. Being pro-life is just not as sexy when you’re talking about death-row inmates.

But the Catholic Church is absolutely consistent in its pro-life stand, from womb to tomb. Gotta respect it for that.