Category: Catholic Ethical Issues

IRISH NEWSLINK: “#NotreDame #FinalFour Run Tainted by #NCAA’s Scheduling on #GoodFriday and #Easter; #Catholic Institution Should Have Abstained From Participating” – SCW

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The #NCAA has created an anti-#Catholic and anti-#Christian effect by scheduling a national semifinal (#FinalFour game) on #GoodFriday in women’s #basketball. Doing so violates the solemn nature of the day and subjects Catholics to having to play on a day when they are fasting, and when they are abstaining from meat. At least the game is not at 3 p.m., the hour that Christ laid down His Life on the Cross, yet it is in the evening. #NotreDame should have refused to play.

The movie “Chariots of Fire” featured an Olympic athlete who refused to compete on the Sabbath. Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax refused to pitch in a World Series game on Yom Kippur. Notre Dame should have refused to participate in the tournament if the Final Four was going to be on Good Friday.

Notre Dame Women’s Basketball has made yet another Final Four run, yet probably should have sat out the tournament when the NCAA drew up the bracket to force games on Good Friday and Easter, two of the most sacred dates on the Catholic Liturgical Calendar.

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IRISH NEWSLINK: “No. 1 Irish Seek Program’s Second National Title this Weekend in Columbus Rivalry renewed in national semifinal vs No. 1 UConn” – UND

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Basketball Going Through Hoop and Net, adapted from image at lanl.gov

“All eyes of the NCAA Division I women’s basketball world are locked upon Columbus, Ohio, this weekend as the 2018 Final Four begins on Friday at Nationwide Arena. The No. 1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (33-3) will once again renew its rivalry with No. 1 UConn Huskies (36-0) in Friday’s second semifinal game, slated to begin at 9:30 p.m. ET ….”

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North Carolina State Moral and Ethical Lapses on Abortion and “Contraceptives” Serve as Reminder that Notre Dame Needs to Leave the ACC

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File Photo of Interior of Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame, photo by Steven C. Welsh

Catholic Canon Law provides for automatic excommunication for abortion. Additionally, under Catholic teaching, artificial contraception is a mortal sin, undertaken at peril of eternal damnation and barring the perpetrator from receiving Holy Communion until they repent and undertake a valid Confession.

Given the fact that some ACC members institutions perform abortions and/or train abortionists, Notre Dame has no business belonging to the ACC, playing ACC opponents, or otherwise enhancing the ACC’s prestige or bolstering ACC revenues.

North Carolina State might not openly announce involvement with surgical abortion, the way that, for example, Miami of Florida and Pitt have. But North Carolina State’s supposed campus “health” center, at healthypack.dasa.ncsu.edu/care-provided/womens-health/pregnancy-options/, openly admits that it will suggest abortion as an option for pregnant women. They also, on their webpage itself, refer pregnant women, for supposed guidance, to the biggest abortion provider in the United States, so-called Planned Parenthood, as well as other pro-abortion “resources.” Particularly cynical and nauseating is a referral to a supposed “religious” resource that will suggest that prenatal child-killing is somehow consistent with religious faith. The latter point, of course, could only be considered blasphemous, if not demonic.

North Carolina State’s campus “health” provider also indicates a willingness to provide so-called “contraceptives” at healthypack.dasa.ncsu.edu/care-provided/womens-health/.

Artificial contraception by itself, as mentioned above, is gravely sinful. Yet, additionally, in at least some cases, regular so-called “birth control” pills actually also can cause chemical abortions. And North Carolina State’s campus “health” center also specifically references “morning after” pills as well.

Given these serious and harmful ethical and moral lapses, Notre Dame should never play North Carolina State and should leave the ACC.

In fact, the obvious question arises — why did Notre Dame join or partner with the ACC in the first place? This shocking situation calls into question whether there is a lack of due diligence, lack of leadership and lack of proper moral judgment among relevant university staff, including those making six- or seven-figure salaries.

Let’s pray to do God’s Will, and let’s get the facts. “The Truth shall set you free.”

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