Catholic University to Soros : Screw You, We’ll Keep The Million Dollars

Posted by: Steven Ahle Posted date: December 20, 2013 In: News

The notorious Koch donated 1 million dollars to Catholic University.  Enter George Soros through Faith in Public Life, a liberal group financed by atheist George Soros.  Forty-nine left-wing Catholic academics wrote a letter to the university, objecting to their acceptance of the money.  Catholic did revisit the decision and once again, decided to keep the money.  They released a statement
The university questioned the motives and credibility of the scholars who “seek to instruct The Catholic University of America’s leaders about Catholic social teaching, and do so in a manner that redefines the Church’s teaching to suit their own political preferences.”
Catholic University sarcastically informed Faith in Public Life, that they had sufficient experts in the teachings of the Catholic church.
“We are confident that our faculty and academic leadership are well versed in Catholic social teaching and well equipped to apply it.  We created a school of business and economics for the express purpose of promoting respect for the human person in economic life, based on the principles of solidarity, subsidiarity, human dignity, and the common good. The aim of the Charles Koch Foundation grant — to support research into principled entrepreneurship — is fully consonant with Catholic social teaching.”
“Nearly two weeks after the University publicly announced the grant, an organization called Faithful America launched a petition drive in opposition. Faithful America appears to be an affiliate of Faith in Public Life, the organizer of the letter. . .  it is telling that after a two-week-long effort to recruit faculty support at Catholic University, it was able to muster the signatures of only three professors, less than one half of one percent of the University’s faculty.”
Breitbart News said that Faith in Public Life criticized the money because the Koch Brothers support the Tea Party.