[lbo-talk] Fear and Loathing at St. Vincent College

[C. G. Estabrook]

Come on, Doug.  Ethical discussions about cooperation with evil -- living 
comfortably under (or even working for) a government that's prosecuting an 
unjust war, for example -- are dismissed only by those liberals who don't 
believe that there can really be anything wrong -- only differences of opinion.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Dec 26, 2009, at 11:43 AM, MICHAEL YATES wrote:
> 
>> Some awful things have been going on at my alma mater, St. Vincent 
>> College in Latrobe, PA.
>>
>> I have written about them at 
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/yates12252009.html  Please spread the word.
> 
> Man, every time I'm tempted to ease up on The Church, something like 
> this comes along.
> 
> Or, this, from today's NYT. The Catholic hierarchy in the U.S. is 
> opposing the Senate health bill because it's too easy on abortion. The 
> trade association of Catholic hospitals is bucking the bishops 
> (cynically, one suspects, because it spares hospitals from cost-cutting, 
> by design). The Times quotes a law prof as saying:
> 
>> “The Catholic Health Association seems to be using traditional 
>> principles of cooperation with evil,” said Prof. M. Cathleen Kaveny of 
>> the Notre Dame University Law School.
> 
> It's stunning to see a professor of law at a major university using a 
> phrase like "cooperation with evil." What a repulsive doctrine.
> 
> Doug
> 
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