Catholic College Will Host Abortion Advocate as Commencement Speaker
Biden administration Ambassador to the Holy See Joe Donnelly will reportedly deliver the keynote speech at Saturday’s graduation ceremony for Calumet College of St. Joseph (CCSJ) in Hammond, Indiana.
Donnelly is a pro-LGBTQ Democrat who professes to be Catholic. He claims to be pro-life but had at best a mixed voting record on abortion during his tenure in the U.S. Senate.
The politician served a single six-year term in the upper chamber from 2013 to 2019, representing Indiana. He was defeated for re-election by Republican Mike Braun. Donnelly previously served three terms in the U.S. House from 2007 to 2013.
The College Fix reported Wednesday that while CCSJ “does not list Donnelly as a speaker on its website .. the Post-Tribune, a local newspaper, lists him as the speaker.”
The Fix noted that during his sole Senate term, Donnelly “regularly voted to protect taxpayer funding of abortion giant Planned Parenthood and supported the LGBT agenda.”
Unlike the vast majority of recent federal Democratic lawmakers, the former senator “sometimes voted pro-life, including for a 20-week federal limit on abortion,” according to the Fix.
Despite multiple sources consistently referring to Donnelly as a “pro-life Democrat,” he only received a 28% rating from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), indicative of a mostly pro-abortion record.
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In 2022, days after Donnelly assumed office as Biden’s Vatican ambassador, FOX News reported:
Donnelly was known as a moderate Democrat when he served in Congress, but changed his stance on gay marriage in 2013 because it was “the right thing to do,” he said, according to Politico.
When he voted for the [Affordable Care Act, popularly known as ‘Obamacare’], he also backtracked on his position against federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions.
The same year, Donnelly said in a video message introducing himself as ambassador to the Holy See, “I have been profoundly moved by the power of the Church to improve the lives of people all around the globe.”
“From my childhood, through my college and law school years at the University of Notre Dame, through years of public service in Indiana and Washington, D.C., the Catholic Church has been a core part of my life and my values,” the Democrat added at the time.
In an interview with a Notre Dame student newspaper published last month, Donnelly reflected on his experience as an altar boy. During the same interview, he referred to President Biden as “rock solid.”
CCSJ is affiliated with the Missionaries of the Precious Blood (C.PP.S.).
The same day Donnelly is slated to address the small Catholic college’s graduates, left-wing pro-abortion nun Sr. Simone Campbell is scheduled to give the commencement speech at the larger Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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