Cardinal Egan: Fordham award to Justice Breyer ‘a mistake’
Cardinal Egan is calling Fordham University’s decision to honor U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer “a mistake.”
A statement from the Archdiocese of New York says that Egan has spoken to the Fordham leadership on the matter.
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about growing Catholic criticism of Fordham Law School’s awarding of the 2008 Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize to Breyer, who wrote the majority decision in 2000 on a case striking down state laws that banned “partial-birth abortion.” Breyer will accept the prize in NYC on Oct. 29.
Here is the archdiocese’s statement in full:
“Cardinal Egan was surprised to learn that Justice Stephen Breyer would be the recipient of this year’s Fordham-Stein Ethics Prize from Fordham University’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics. He has spoken to the leadership of Fordham University about this matter. As a result of these discussions, the Cardinal is confident that a mistake of this sort will not happen again.”
The Cardinal Newman Society, which leads the charge in calling for Catholic colleges to be more Catholic, says that 1,100 Fordham alumni have signed a petition opposing the award for Breyer.
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