Where's the Cardinal?

Hillary Clinton to headline fundraiser for Catholic institution

Pro-abortion senator and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton reportedly will be the featured guest at a lunch benefit for the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, "a Catholic institution ... committed to raising public awareness of the plight of all of society's hurting youth in order to encourage support of programs that would enable them to begin healing."

The benefit will take place in Chicago on May 7, 2007

Maybe a "Catholic" Institution should invite her to St Louis? But really, what could possibly be in the minds of those who would even think about asking Clinton to a fundraiser...Maybe they consulted with the Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation board for pointers and advice?

..Courtesy of Matt Abbott

*** Updated by LRS ***
LifeSiteNews has additional information here:

According to the Pro-Life Action League, Fr. Donahue was apparently not aware Sen. Clinton had been asked to speak at the event until he was informed of her scheduled appearance by the League. [Fr. Scott Donahue is the current president of the organization.]

However, Mercy Home spokesman Mark Schmeltzer told LifeSiteNews.com that Fr. Donohue was approached by Chicago Cardinal Francis George about the upcoming Clinton fundraiser. "The Cardinal had some very understandable misgivings but he just wanted to be assured this was not a political stop," Schmeltzer told LifeSiteNews.com.

As a Catholic, I find this to be more than "having misgivings" - it is offensive and truly scandalous that this agent of death was even considered to be worthy of having a platform in a Catholic institution to spew her poison.

The USCCB document, "Catholics in Political Life" states:

The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.

Is Clinton not being given a platform, regardless of her topic of conversation?

It's rather disconcerting, to say the least, that many bishops do not seem to have the will, courage, or fortitude of others, [such as Archbishop Burke], to act as the shepherd rather than the hired hand, to do all that they can to keep the wolves from the sheep, despite the disguises the wolves use to gain access...

As noted in the most recent Meditation-The Priest at Prayer (here):
Our Lord describes the hireling who

sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees . . . because he is a hireling, and he has no care for the sheep; and because the shepherd flees, the wolf catches and scatters the sheep. (John 10:11-13)

And this:

Christ's Wrath will be the equal of His overflowing love that made Him give life and blood to the task of redeeming souls and snatching them from the wolves of hell.

"The day will surely come, and is not far off, when the Shepherd of shepherds will reveal Himself to the whole world and will reveal the works of each one; and He who now chastises the sins of others through His priests will on that day Himself condemn the evil wrought by His priests, and condemn with unmatched rigor." (Hom. 17 on Luke - St. Gregory, Pope)

There are some bishops and priests who understand this. Sadly there are too many who do not.