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Why SLU will likely back the Coach, not the Archbishop

Insight Scoop has a fascinating take on the showdown between basketball coach, Rick Majerus, the Jesuits and the Archbishop of Saint Louis, Archbishop Burke centering on Saint Louis University. Here is just a snip taken from the American Spectator and posted on Insight Scoop : George Neumayr, editor of Catholic World Report , writes this in a special report (Jan. 28, 2008) for American Spectator : In 2003, Jesuit St. Louis University (SLU) received an $8 million tax abatement to start building a sports arena. This annoyed the Masonic Temple Association, whose property abuts SLU. Arguing that a religious school should not receive government monies, the Association filed a federal lawsuit to block the abatement. The case was ultimately dismissed, but not before exposing the utter shamelessness of Jesuit officials at the schools. To fend off the suit, they told a Missouri appellate court that SLU is "independent of the Catholic Chu...

Does Coach Majerus really think he can out play Abp. Burke?

You probably have heard the story on the news by now: an orthodox Archbishop has publicly questioned a Division I basketball coach at a Roman Catholic University within his Archdiocese about the coach's pro-abortion comments while the coach protests all the while to be "Catholic." What are to we make of this as the talking heads on ESPN and other outlets tell the good Archbishop to "mind his own business?" Fortunately, a superb canonist , Edward N. Peters, writes a blog on Canon Law called, In Light of the Law, and he has weighed in on the case : I'm not making this up. Jesuit-run St. Louis University's basketball coach Rick Majerus (yes, a basketball coach) is telling St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke (yes, the canonist archbishop ), to mind his own business regarding Majerus ' outspoken support for (get ready for it) abortion and experimentation on embryonic humans ! If it weren't that expressing support for such deeply offensive conduct i...