Catholic academics dare to criticize Speaker Boehner after allowing Obama to desecrate religious symbols at Georgetown.

In one of the most disturbing stories of the week, we have this report, a letter from a bunch of Catholics misfits complaining about Speaker Boehner's inconsistencies as a fellow Catholic, while ignoring one of the most egregious acts of arrogance committed by a sitting president in memory.

First, a quote from the story in view: by Michael Sean Winters on May. 11, 2011

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UPDATE: More names have been added to the list of signatories below.

A group of prominent Catholic academics have signed a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, on the occasion of his forthcoming commencement address at the Catholic University of America. I will provide commentary later today, but the letter really speaks for itself, respectfully, clearly and in a way to challenge the Speaker to consider his policies. The letter will be delivered to Boehner's office personally by some of the signatories tomorrow morning.

[Editor's Note: Michael Sean Winter's first reaction is here: Initial Thoughts on Letter to Boehner.]

I will point out that the signatories do not call on Boehner to decline to give his address, nor on CUA to revoke its invitation, as many conservatives called on Notre Dame to revoke its invitation to President Obama in 2009. They understand that a university should be a place where all voices and viewpoints are heard. But, they are well within their right to ask Boehner to explain how his budgetary proposals do, or do not, conform to traditional Catholic social teaching. Here is the text of the letter:

Dear Mr. Speaker,

We congratulate you on the occasion of your commencement address to The Catholic University of America. It is good for Catholic universities to host and engage the thoughts of powerful public figures, even Catholics such as yourself who fail to recognize (whether out of a lack of awareness or dissent) important aspects of Catholic teaching. We write in the hope that this visit will reawaken your familiarity with the teachings of your Church on matters of faith and morals as they relate to governance.

Mr. Speaker, your voting record is at variance from one of the Church’s most ancient moral teachings. From the apostles to the present, the Magisterium of the Church has insisted that those in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor. Your record in support of legislation to address the desperate needs of the poor is among the worst in Congress. This fundamental concern should have great urgency for Catholic policy makers. Yet, even now, you work in opposition to it. . . . read the full article here.

Never mind the fact that Obama is an abortion freak, violating one of the most basic tenets of the Catholic faith. Never mind that Notre Dame and Georgetown Universities, both Catholic schools, invited the Chief Abortionist to speak on their campuses. Never mind that while at Georgetown, Obama ordered the name of "Jesus" covered over as a condition for his commencement speech on that campus - one of the most egregious and despicable actions of a president of the United States in my memory. Never mind the Catholic morons in charge, who surrendered to this secularist's demands.

Point of post: just documenting the extreme hypocrisy of a Leftist priesthood that cares more for its political positioning than for the truth of its historic orthodoxy.