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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Incompatible

Would an Orthodox Jew run a pork sausage company? Would a PETA activist operate a fishing charter boat? Or, would an Amish farmer have a car dealership on the side?

The answers to each, of course, would be "no", presuming the people in question were true to their beliefs and values. They are simply incompatible.

Now...would a Catholic college post job openings at Planned Parenthood facilities for their nursing students.

Alas, the answer is yes - which brings into question the college's commitment to being fully and faithfully Catholic.

From Catholic Culture: Michigan Catholic College Posts Planned Parenthood Job Openings

The career and counseling services office of a Michigan Catholic college is publicizing a job opening at Planned Parenthood. Aquinas College’s career services office posted the position of registered nurse at Planned Parenthood on November 12; the phone number listed as a contact number is that of Planned Parenthood of West and Northern Michigan.

Aquinas College’s career services office “aids students in identifying unique skills, abilities, interests, and values in order to establish productive career paths and goals.” Founded in 1922 by Dominican sisters, the Grand Rapids-based college has 2,159 students, 1,872 of whom are undergraduates.

In 2005, the college’s newsletter had urged readers to “check out the following job opportunity publications available in Career and Counseling Services … Planned Parenthood Centers of West Michigan, Vice President of Resource Development.”

Aquinas College in Grand Rapids is not associated with Aquinas College in Nashville or Thomas Aquinas College in California, both of which appear on the Cardinal Newman Society’s list of 21 faithful Catholic colleges.

This is not an isolated incident, as Catholic Culture.org recently cited two other Catholic-in-name-only colleges who have had connections to PP. A college Wisconsin placed an intern at a PP facility, and a Kentucky college administrator once served on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood.

Whatever these 'Catholic' colleges are teaching, it's incompatible with Catholic teaching.