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The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts press statement…
Fordham University in the Bronx is one of America’s leading Jesuit institutions of higher learning.
In what must be a first for the Catholic Church in the United States, Fordham President Tania Tetlow is the daughter of a former Jesuit priest.
A supporter of same sex marriage, the ordination of women and the LGBT agenda, Tetlow has characterized the traditional understanding of gender as “fundamentalist.”
She is a friend and ally of homosexualist priest James Martin.
Now, Tetlow has expressed, publicly, her rejection of perennial Catholic teaching on the impermissibility of artificial birth control.
Earlier this month, in response to a student government proposal to allow the distribution of contraceptives on campus, Tetlow stated:
“I will tell you that, like the vast majority of American Catholics, I disagree with the Church on its policy on contraception, but it is the Church’s policy and, as a Catholic institution, we don’t violate that.”
On April 28th, reporter Matt Lamb of LifeSiteNew contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment.
League Executive Director C. J. Doyle issued the following statement:
“Jesuit higher education in America is in an advanced state of apostasy and has been for decades.
Continued below.
Fordham University in the Bronx is one of America’s leading Jesuit institutions of higher learning.
In what must be a first for the Catholic Church in the United States, Fordham President Tania Tetlow is the daughter of a former Jesuit priest.
A supporter of same sex marriage, the ordination of women and the LGBT agenda, Tetlow has characterized the traditional understanding of gender as “fundamentalist.”
She is a friend and ally of homosexualist priest James Martin.
Now, Tetlow has expressed, publicly, her rejection of perennial Catholic teaching on the impermissibility of artificial birth control.
Earlier this month, in response to a student government proposal to allow the distribution of contraceptives on campus, Tetlow stated:
“I will tell you that, like the vast majority of American Catholics, I disagree with the Church on its policy on contraception, but it is the Church’s policy and, as a Catholic institution, we don’t violate that.”
On April 28th, reporter Matt Lamb of LifeSiteNew contacted the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, seeking a comment.
League Executive Director C. J. Doyle issued the following statement:
“Jesuit higher education in America is in an advanced state of apostasy and has been for decades.
Continued below.
Fordham President Publicly Rejects Catholic Teaching
Fordham President Tania Tetlow publicly rejects Church teaching on contraception, exposing Jesuit higher education's decades-long apostasy from authentic Catholic identity and moral doctrine.
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