Georgetown alums want to remove Catholic association

[Omaha1]

Holy crap. Anything to this?

A group of alumni, students, parents, and faculty of Georgetown University have sent a letter to Cardinal Donald Wuerl asking him to remove the label “Catholic” from the school based on the school’s embrace of secularism. William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist and Georgetown alum, is among the signatories. The petition he headed up shows non-compliance with Catholic doctrine for the university, and asks for remedies “including, if made necessary, the removal or suspension of top-ranked Georgetown’s right to call itself Catholic and Jesuit in its fundraising and representations to applicants.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... n-Catholic

[yorost]

Many of the Big East's schools (and more) get criticized for not being Catholic enough. My overly simplistic view of it is that many of the bigger academic Catholic schools head towards rather liberal Catholicism, which really upsets some conservative Catholics. This kind of thing is just them airing their 'grievances' of association.