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‘Notre Dame’ should drop Pitt over abortion; University of Pittsburgh one of four abortion schools on 2025 schedule, one of three from ACC

November 15, 2025 Leprechaun Express - Steve Welsh Catholic Ethical Issues, Featured, Featured Article, Headlines, Irish Game Day

Dropping abortion-school Pitt likely means dropping ‘Notre Dame’s’ partnership with the ACC, a conference riddled by abortion schools. The Catholic Church regards abortion as such a serious matter that procurement of abortion brings about automatic excommunication. Yet at least one-fourth of ‘Notre Dame’s’ regular season football schedule includes abortion schools — Miami (Fla.), Pitt and Stanford from the ACC and

University of Pittsburgh Trains Abortionists and Notre Dame Should Drop Them, Even If It Means Leaving the ACC

October 13, 2018 Leprechaun Express - Steve Welsh Headlines

File Photo of Basilica of the Sacred Heart and Golden Dome at University of Notre Dame, with Trees in Foreground

The Catholic Faith regards abortion, the deliberate killing of innocent human life in her mother’s womb, as such a serious evil that Catholic Canon Law provides automatic excommunication for abortion. Yet Notre Dame’s football schedule and conference affiliations are riddled with open and notorious abortion providers and trainers of abortionists. The University of Pittsburgh is one of them. In just