A row over an anti-abortion graduation speech prompted high-ranking church officials and conservative lawyers to accuse the Australian Catholic University of failing to uphold the faith.
High-profile conservative Catholic lawyers have warned the Australian Catholic University it faces losing its religious designation if it fails to defend the faith as church leaders split with university bosses in the fallout from an anti-abortion speech on campus.
Joe de Bruyn was invited to give a speech for the Australian Catholic University after receiving an honorary doctorate. While accepting an honorary doctorate – for which he was nominated by Fisher – de Bruyn said abortion was the single biggest killer of human beings in the world, and a “tragedy that must be ended”. Catholic doctrine teaches life is sacred from the point of conception.
In his mid-November letter, Fisher said a walkout was poor form at any university. “But for staff and students to walk out from amoral positions strikes me as especially perverse,” he said.
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