Noted: Howard Dean, Obama Campaign at (Catholic) Saint Louis University

CNS alert:

Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will bring presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s Register for Change tour to Saint Louis University tomorrow. It is only the latest incident of a Catholic college hosting a campaign event for the pro-abortion presidential candidate

Howard Dean, who is also the former Governor of Vermont, is notorious in American politics for his support of legalized abortion. In addition to campaigning for pro-abortion Obama, in 2002 Dean defended the legality of the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion, in which a third trimester half-delivered baby’s skull is evacuated. “The notion of ‘partial birth abortion’ is nonsense,” said Dean. “This is a rare procedure used only to save the life or health of the mother.”

“The Bishops have been very clear,” said Patrick J. Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society (CNS). “Catholic institutions must not give a public platform to politicians who are publicly opposed to Catholic teaching. The Obama Campaign should not be welcome at Saint Louis University.”

SLU, sadly, is not generally known for its joyfully fidelity.