Archbishop Burke has blocked the junior senator from Missouri from speaking at the commencement festivities at St. Joseph's Academy.
McCaskill's spokeswoman, Adrianne Marsh, said that St. Joseph's officials had made the initial invitation after the students had requested the senator. Officials then called McCaskill to say that they were rescinding it. Marsh said McCaskill's people were told Burke made the decision.
McCaskill, a Catholic, said she was disappointed. "I was thrilled that the great, young women at St. Joseph's Academy invited me to speak at their graduation,," McCaskill said in a statement. "It was a special opportunity because my daughter is one of the graduates. I'm disappointed that the archbishop has made this decision."
One wonders if the archbishop similarly plans to block doctors and scientists from speaking at the school, as it appears a key fault of the senator (in Burke's ideological eyes) is her support for stem-cell research.
By the way, is the following weird or what? Makes Burke seem rather peculiar.
The disinvitation of McCaskill comes less than a week after Burke resigned from the board of the Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center Foundation because singer Sheryl Crow - an outspoken supporter of embryonic stem cell research - was scheduled to headline the annual fundraiser and concert.
He can't even stand to be associated (and extremely vaguely associated) with singers whose views he disagrees with?
Posted by armand at May 2, 2007 12:03 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Religion