The death of a nation’s nightmare
is cause enough to celebrate,
especially if it wasted
forty-nine years of the culture.
Irrational Roe is damned by Dobbs.
Let every prolifer rejoice!
The refused and voiceless unborn child
is vibrant with his or her voice.
And we in this prolife nation
are binding the demons of choice
and voting red in elation.
6 July 2022
Dr. Stephen Sammut isn’t writing an essay as much as he is furiously ringing a warning bell about Catholic academics. The embedded links citing those “Catholic scholars” who urged people to reject pro-life candidate Donald Trump and then pro-life President Donald Trump shocked me.
Such great names! “Scholars” trying to confuse Catholics into…what?…either staying away from voting or, worse, voting for anti-life Joe Biden, who claims to be Catholic on social justice issues but is just an ordinary abortion zealot? It’s bad enough that most people despise academics for their race-baiting leftist ideologies (critical race theory) or for their just plain ignorant ideas (white privilege). That Catholic institutions, apparently, lack the courage to fight—and fight hard—for our Catholic values is discouraging.
Worst of all, when we, sinners though we are, want to support our Catholic institutions and learn that those institutions are no better than any secular community college, college, or university, then to whom can we donate our pro-life money? If there is no Catholic college or university worthy enough to receive our pro-life dollars, then, absent having the power of a college president or the power of being on a college’s board of directors, there is only one course of action faithful Catholics can take to rectify the problem: we just won’t donate to them.
Let me say that louder, in the way that our young people would on social media:
We. Just. Won’t. Donate. To. Them.
Maybe that is the only language that will work to encourage Catholic institutions to stand up in the fight against leftist secular attacks on human life and on our Faith: money.
I have this idea of choking off money from Catholic institutions which lack courage to defend life and morals because I was about to donate again to what many call one of the few genuine and orthodox Catholic institutions to praise it for its good work. Now, I’m not so certain, and there will be no electronic donation coming out of my checking account to that institution. Right-to-life groups will get it instead.
Welcome to the website of Dr. Jeff Koloze (PhD, English, Kent State University), which will maintain archived material and current research on the issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia in literature.