It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad. My alma mater (Class of 1981), the Jesuit-run University of Scranton, announced that it has hired former Pennsylvania Democratic Senator Robert P. Casey Jr., as a Distinguished Fellow in Public Service. University President Joseph G. Marina, S.J., expressed his happiness “to have the senator joining us here at Scranton.” Casey, he said, is “perfect” for the role of “forming men and women to be agents of social change.” Perhaps Casey will enlighten students on his Catholic intellectual and philosophical journey from pro-life politician to pro-abortion politico.
The local news reports noted Casey’s Catholic education — Scranton Prep, the College of Holy Cross, and Catholic University Law School. He also attended Catholic elementary school at St. Clare’s (he was a grade behind me) and St. Paul’s in Scranton’s Green Ridge section. One news report noted that the University of Scranton “is a Catholic, Jesuit institution whose principles are familiar to Casey.” One of those Catholic principles is the sanctity of the lives of unborn children — a principle that Casey’s father, Robert P. Casey Sr. held inviolate during his long public career as a Pennsylvania state senator, Pennsylvania’s auditor general, and Pennsylvania’s governor. Casey Sr. had the courage to publicly challenge the national Democratic Party’s pro-abortion stance in the 1980s and 1990s, and he successfully shepherded through the state legislature a restrictive abortion law. He also wrote a book titled Fighting for Life in which he championed the lives of unborn children and excoriated his fellow Democrats who supported Roe v. Wade. He was a profile in courage. Sad to say, his son and namesake is not.
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