"The Exorcist" Author Upset over Sibelius' Georgetown University Invitation
May 18, 2012 | by Butter Dish
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William Peter Blatty
For "The Exorcist" author and former Georgetown University student, William Peter Blatty, inviting Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at his alma mater was too much.
He reportedly said that Georgetown has violated church teaching by inviting someone who supports abortion rights and refuses to obey instructions the late Pope John Paul II issued in 1990 to church-affiliated colleges and universities.
The retired author plans to sue Georgetown University in Catholic court, this according to Friday's report in The Huffington Post by Religion News Service. Read more here.
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Good for William Peter Blatty!
Get DeGoia out! Any president who cannot guide the university students according to the Catholic principles that govern the institution that he is supposed to lead has no place there. He knew that Sibelius' speech would be confusing to his students in regard to the Church's stance on abortion, freedom of conscience and religion, etc. Why further confuse them? With Fluke's and Sibelius' association with Georgetown, the reputation of that once highly-esteemed Catholic institution has sadly become undermined. Again, get DeGioia out! He cannot wash his hands of the outcome of this horrible choice to invite Sibelius as a commencement speaker any more than did Pilate from the outcome of his erroneous decision. As a Jesuit institution, you have shamelessly once again given up Jesus to His persecutors.
And just another example of the bigoted right wing Catholics attemting to assert their neo-fascist will on others. And a little surprising coming from a third-rate author who made a fortune from a trite novel featuring pea soup.