LSN: Catholic Watchdog Reports Fewer Pro-Abortion Commencement Speakers

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- There's good news at the Catholic colleges and universities across the nation, according to the Cardinal Newman Society. Unlike in previous years, the number of pro-abortion commencement speakers and honorees is on the decline.

For the past nine years CNS research has identified invited commencement speakers or honorees at Catholic colleges who have taken public positions contrary to Catholic values or teaching, such as abortion.

In 2006, CNS reported problems at 24 colleges with speakers or honorees who publicly advocated abortion, embryonic stem cell research, or assisted suicide.

This year, however, CNS has only had to alert the presidents of 11 educational institutions about the beliefs of speakers or honorees. CNS is urging the presidents of those schools to withdraw the invitations their schools have extended to honorees.