Staffers Cut Ties With Notre Dame Over Hiring of Abortion Advocate
“Please remove my name and photograph from the Liu Institute’s roster”
Why would an abortion advocate even want to work for a Catholic school? Simple. To change it.
FOX News reports:
Notre Dame hire of abortion advocate to lead center causes staff to cut ties with university
A University of Notre Dame law professor as well as a research professor emeritus told Fox News Digital they are cutting ties with the university’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies in protest over the institute’s appointment of a professor who has publicly supported abortion.
“I confirm that I submitted my resignation to the University President, Provost, Keough School Dean, and the current Liu Institute Director, giving up my appointments as a Faculty Fellow and member of the Faculty Executive Committee of the Liu Institute yesterday,” Diane A. Desierto, professor of law and global affairs, told Fox News Digital in a statement Wednesday.
Additionally, in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital on Tuesday, Robert M. Gimello, research professor emeritus of theology, informed Michel Hockx, director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at Notre Dame, that he does not want to be affiliated with the institute following the appointment of Susan Ostermann.
Notre Dame announced Jan. 8 that Ostermann, who joined the university in 2017 as a global affairs professor, will assume her role as director of the Asian studies center in July.
“Dear Michel: In dismay, and with regret, I write to tell you that the recently announced appointment of your successor as Director of the Liu Center compels my resignation from my position as Emeritus Fellow of the Center,” Gimello wrote in the letter emailed to Hockx on Monday.
“Please remove my name and photograph from the Liu Institute’s roster,” Gimello added. “I can only hope —and I will pray — for a future in which the Institute fulfills its proper role as a faithful instrument of our University’s Catholic mission.”
Gimello is not listed as a Liu Institute emeritus fellow on his university biography page, but other profiles of Gimello list him as having been a fellow.
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Comments
That’s probably true of 2/3 of the ND Professors. They come from the same academia as any other U.
The headline is misleading and doesn’t make any sense. A university staffer can’t cut ties with the university without quitting and no longer being a staffer. And these two professors haven’t done that. They’ve cut ties with the Liu Institute, not with the university. They’re no longer fellows of that institute but continue in all their other roles at the university.
Also, this is not about the university hiring Ostermann. That happened nearly a decade ago, to no protest by these two. What they’re objecting to is making her director of this institute.
and again
why this bs surprise that a catholic school/person etc would be pro abortion??
I have argued for decades that except for the money it brings to the church etc
they dont want “undesirables” having babies anymore than you want your neighborhood filled with fatherless homes