The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release…
In the past eight days, three Catholic colleges in Massachusetts conferred honorary degrees upon leaders of medical institutions which either kill unborn children or train abortionists to do so.
On May 12th, Assumption University in Worcester conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters upon Doctor Michael F. Collins, the Chancellor of the UMass Chan Medical School.
Just last year, in May of 2023, following demands from medical students, the school expanded its abortion curriculum.
According to the school’s Office of Communications, “Abortion has been added for the first time to lectures as part of the reproductive health curriculum for first- and second-year medical students, covering epidemiology of unintended pregnancy and abortion, pregnancy counseling options, basics of medical and surgical abortions, and the legal environment surrounding abortion.”
The school is offering, for fourth year students, clinical rotations and electives with OB-GYN physicians who perform abortions. UMass Chan Medical is also a partner with the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program In Abortion & Family Planning, a national training initiative for abortionists.
Michael Collins, who now trains physicians to kill children, is the former CEO of Caritas Christi Health Care of the Archdiocese of Boston and a former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross.
On May 13th, Anna Maria College in Paxton awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Public Administration to Eric W. Dickson, MD, the President and CEO of UMass Memorial Health. Doctor Dickson also delivered the Commencement Address.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, UMass Memorial Medical Center, a constituent hospital of the UMass Memorial Health system, performed 133 abortions in 2022, the last year for which statistics are available.
On May 18th, Emmanuel College in Boston presented, as its commencement speaker, the Obama/Biden bundler, Jack Connors, who served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Partners Health Care System—now Mass General Brigham—for 16 years. Connors became Chairman Emeritus in July 2012.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Brigham & Women Hospital performed 591 abortions in 2022, while the Massachusetts General Hospital performed another 164 abortions that same year.
In 2011, the year before Connor’s retirement as Chairman, Brigham & Women performed 477 abortions and Mass General performed 89 abortions. A third constituent institution, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, performed 79 abortions that year, for a total of 642 abortions during just one of the sixteen years that Connors served as Chairman.
Connors is a former member of the Council of Finance of the Archdiocese of Boston and is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Campaign for Catholic Schools. He is an Associate Trustee of Boston College.
A close advisor of Cardinal Sean O’Malley, who has long played a key role in personnel decisions in the Boston Archdiocese, Connors is an advocate for women priests, the deformity of marriage and an end to clerical celibacy.
The Catholic Action League called the honors to those who destroy the innocent “further compelling evidence of the Luciferian Culture of Death which pervades so many Catholic institutions in Massachusetts.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: “It has long been clear that Catholic higher education in the Commonwealth is in an advanced state of apostasy. It is equally clear that this corruption exists because of the connivance or the toleration of the state’s Catholic bishops.
The pro-life movement must stop participating in the unwarranted pretense and the unsustainable delusion that the Catholic Church is pro-life.
Catholic bishops, Catholic religious orders, Catholic colleges and universities, Catholic secondary schools, Catholic charities, and Catholic fraternal organizations routinely offer awards, honors and platforms to proponents of legal, unrestricted and publicly funded abortion.
Abortion advocates are invited to serve on the boards of Catholic institutions. They are showcased at Catholic fundraising venues. They are even hired as lobbyists and spokesmen for the Church.
When they die, they are given Catholic funerals that all but canonize them, and while they live, they are never criticized by the leaders of the Church.
Pro-lifers in the Bay State need to recognize that the Church here has betrayed them by making a political accommodation with the abortion regime, and that many Catholic institutions are now functionally, practically, de facto, pro-abortion.”
