| # | Name | Comments |
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| 851 | Anonymous | I'm pulling ALL of my money from Holy Cross.
Since it's your wallet you are obviously concerned about, I hope this dramatically hurts your wallet. Holy Cross is a disgrace to Catholic education. I will not allow my grandchildren to apply there. They will be attending a REAL Catholic school. |
| 852 | Carol Wostenberg | |
| 853 | Patrick Malneritch | |
| 854 | Richard P. Sheridan, '56 | I thoroughly endorse the content of this petition.
Several years ago a musical group I headed was contacted by Planned Parenthood to perform for a fund raiser. I declined on the grounds of moral objection to their policies. I feel the college could well do the same. |
| 855 | janine | Truth |
| 856 | Marsha Baechle | It is a sad day when a college that "claims" to be Catholic and a priest appointed by Christ to forgive sins and to change bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Our Lord allows an institution that is responsible for the killing of multitudes of innocent lives onto its campus to influence those in your care! Shame on you! |
| 857 | Judith M. Mascolo, M.D. | I sent an email to Holy Cross Students for Life expressing my anger and disgust that Planned Parenthood and NARAL are being given a voice at Holy Cross College this week.
Cancel this conference and restore Catholic teaching to the school.
J. Mascolo, MD, Class of 1980 |
| 858 | Janet Fallat | |
| 859 | Annie Banno | I am a postabortive woman who now, decades later, regrets my abortion and grieves for the daughter I never had. I went to a so-called Catholic college just like HC (Fairfield) and they never helped me avoid abortion as they ought to have and as you ought to do for your women students. Instead of inviting Planned Parenthood, you should be inviting Silent No More women to talk about the horrible anguish and physical problems our abortions caused us, so that women get the truth that Planned Parenthood to this day lies about to women: read the lies they give on their website about the real effects of induced abortion, here: http://afterabortion.blogspot.com/2004/11/shredding-myths-about-abortions_02.html
Shame on you for bowing to politically-correct, New England social mores. |
| 860 | Elfriede C. Higgins | |
| 861 | J.J. Higgins, Jr. | |
| 862 | judy shaw | Stop the hypocrisy! You can not claim to be a Catholic school and allow Planned Parenthood, with their anti-life, ammoral values, to infiltrate into the system. The "failure" you speak of,( with the strategy of discrediting P.P.) lies strictly in the failure of those like yourself, in the position you are in, to "fail" to uphold the core belief of our Catholic faith. That is, that all life is a gift of God, and no man has the right to end it. |
| 863 | Marilyn Morris | The last I heard a priest is to be obedient to his Bishop. The last I heard, our Pope has said that obortion is murder and that priests are to speak out against this outrage. Perhaps if priests like you were obedient and did speak out, then more hearts would change and Planned Parenthood would be out of business. May God Have Mercy on Your Soul. |
| 864 | Madeline | This is sickening me. How can Fr. McFarland
allow this? Can Fr. really sleep peacefully at night
while allowing this travesty? God help him. |
| 865 | Caitlin Lipovsky | A Catholic campus should not support an organization that provides abortion as an option to women. |
| 866 | Catherine M. Harvey | No institution that promotes the culture of death should be allowed to cover itself with the mantle of Catholicism. |
| 867 | Mary Ann Gatto | I am respectfully requesting Fr. McFarland to cancel the October 24th scheduled seminar featuring Teen Pregnancy with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-choice of Massachusetts. I have supported the Holy Cross Fathers and their mission in Peru and I will not continue to do so if Holy Cross College will not support the Catholic church and their teachings. |
| 868 | Andres Gutierrez | Fr. McFarland you can't be Catholic and support Pro-Choise. |
| 869 | Joseph W. Perrotti | Father McFarland,
Please cancel the Mass. Alliance on Teen Pregnancy event. The Alliance's partner, Planned Parenthood, has killed countless unborn babies. This runs counter to the teachings of Jesus and the Catholic Church. |
| 870 | Anonymous | Please do not allow the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy to hold a seminar on the campus of Holy Cross College. Fr. McFarland please take a stand and tell them the Planned Parenthood is not welcome on our nation's college campuses |
| 871 | karl perrott | would you allow hitler to speak at your college while he was on a rampage exterminating 6 million jews and others. well hitler only exterminated 6 million individuals. this holocost has killed 50 million souls. what are you thinking. In Jesus' name karl perrott. |
| 872 | John Ritchie | Cancel pro-abortion groups! This is giving great scandal. |
| 873 | Anonymous | Dear Fr. McFarland,
You know full well, in your heart, that allowing this conference on a Catholic campus is wrong. The only question is why you are doing it.
I am praying that the Holy Spirit will touch you to change the hardness of your heart and your spiritual blindness on this issue.
Please listen to the voice of your shepherd, Bishop McManus. Otherwise, you will have to answer for providing a platform and thereby tacitly supporting groups that promote the killing of innocent children when you face your Creator and Judge, after death and on Judgment Day. I am praying for you.
Stephanie Hopping |
| 874 | MARK BALZAROTTI | An absolute disgrace!
Thanks Father McFarland for opening the door and letting Satan in.
Any abortion or promiscuity that results from this "seminar" is on you.
Unbelievable. |
| 875 | MARK BALZAROTTI | An absolute disgrace!
Thanks Father McFarland for opening the door and letting Satan in.
Any abortion or promiscuity that results from this "seminar" is on you.
Unbelievable. |
| 876 | linda | I am appalled at the defiance of Fr. McFarland. He is defiant not only to the bishop but to God. |
| 877 | Mary Morgan | |
| 878 | Ana Colon | Obidience is the Key, the rest is up to God the Creator. |
| 879 | Elizabeht and Dennis Scribner | |
| 880 | Judith Oberheim | Please do not grant Planned Parenthood a forum on your campus; they don't need it....they have total uncencored access to ALL major media outlets right now.......... |
| 881 | Kathy Ciastko | |
| 882 | Mike Ciastko | |
| 883 | Andrew Ciastko | |
| 884 | Paul Muccigrosso | |
| 885 | Anonymous | Having just returned from the funeral of my niece, I am shocked to hear that Holy Cross is endorsing the opinions of Planned Parenthood. Their message is not consistent with Catholic teachings and their presence on campus is a slap in my brother and sister-in-laws faces. |
| 886 | Stacy Phillips | Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the nation. Fr. McFarland should not in any way support them. The Catholic identity of a college depends directly on these types of decisions, and it is the obligation of the leadership to follow the teachings of the Church. |
| 887 | jessica Santos | Have mercy on the souls of the innocent and be odedient to our Lord Jesus Christ by following the scriptures in regard to teaching the least to sin. |
| 888 | Kerry DePalo | Kerry Ann DePalo
Mother of six children that will enter truly Catholic colleges in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2020
I am sickened to learn that Fr. McFarland is welcoming Planned Parenthood to speak at Holy Cross.
I would never want to send my children to a college that undermines all the work I have done in raising my children to be faithful to Holy Mother Church.
Why isn't Holy Cross a Catholic college? |
| 889 | Eliza White | |
| 890 | ann marie cosgrove | Coming back to the Catholic church has been the greatest love affair I have ever had because for years I suffered from the shame and pain of having an abortion. The Catholic church and ALL its teachings is what saved me from a life of misery. For a Catholic college to allow material on its campus from the likes of PP and NARAL is a slap in the face to those of us who have suffered greatly from abortion. As a Catholic I ask you to cancel this event, as a woman who morns the lost of her child from abortion I ask you to think of us who have been hurt by these organizations that spread the lies about abortion to stand up and do what is right. Do not allow this on your campus. |
| 891 | Susan Davidson | I can't believe Fr. McFarland even calls himself a priest in the Roman Catholic faith. What a farce! The brutal killings perpetrated by Planned Parenthood on millions of babies should be enough for him to NOT let these evils onto the campus of Holy Cross. I feel very sorry for the students who wish these kinds of things were not happening on their campus. I thought the purpose of a Catholic institution was teach the teachings of the Catholic faith. The killing of thousands of babies every month is not in the teaching of our faith! He should be fired! |
| 892 | JuliAnn Tomse | This is a very sad situation. |
| 893 | Anonymous | Father, I am saddened that you have chosen to not honor the request of the bishop. I am saddened that you would chose to teach your students to disrespect the teachings of the Church. In this day of moral relativism, we need our Catholic colleges and universities will stand on the side of faithfulness.
Please, change you ways. Do not encourage the culture of death at our Catholic colleges and honor the request of the bishop. |
| 894 | Rob Kaiser | Father, I am saddened that you have chosen to not honor the request of the bishop. I am saddened that you would chose to teach your students to disrespect the teachings of the Church. In this day of moral relativism, we need our Catholic colleges and universities will stand on the side of faithfulness.
Please, change you ways. Do not encourage the culture of death at our Catholic colleges and honor the request of the bishop. |
| 895 | Rob Kaiser | Father, I am saddened that you have chosen to not honor the request of the bishop. I am saddened that you would chose to teach your students to disrespect the teachings of the Church. In this day of moral relativism, we need our Catholic colleges and universities will stand on the side of faithfulness.
Please, change you ways. Do not encourage the culture of death at our Catholic colleges and honor the request of the bishop. |
| 896 | Maura Ann Brown ('00) | |
| 897 | Susan E. Galvao | I would expect that Holy Cross would make every effort to distance itself from Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice -- organizations whose principal goals and philosophies are directly counter to the culture of life that we, as Christians (and as a society as a whole) should be striving to support. Three of my siblings received undergraduate degrees from Holy Cross and I know they, like me, are disgusted by this recent turn of events. Have a little backbone and stand up for what is right, Fr. McFarland. Show some depth of character. If institutions like Holy Cross stand for nothing else, they should stand for life. |
| 898 | Bonnie Olson | |
| 899 | Angela Rankin | |
| 900 | Susan M. Crump | Fr. McFarland, Holy Cross -- abide by the teachings of the Catholic Church or find some other church to belong to. PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS NOT WELCOME ON OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES -- OR ANYWHERE ELSE!!! I will be praying for you. God bless you,
Susan M. Crump |