Writing at Today’s Catholic, a publication of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, [Bishop Kevin] Rhoades said the “reproductive justice” event at the Indiana Catholic university is causing “scandal” by promoting the opposite of justice: the killing of unborn babies in abortions.

“… this lecture is simply a conduit for activist propaganda that is not merely wrong, but squarely contrary to principles of basic human equality, justice, dignity and nonviolence that the Catholic Church, Notre Dame, and many others (including non-Catholics) have affirmed for millennia,” the bishop wrote.

The March 20 event, hosted by the Notre Dame Gender Studies Program and John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values, included an abortion activist named Ash Williams, “a Black trans abortion doula, public intellectual and abolitionist community organizer.”

[Good question. Rhoades isn’t calling for a shutdown of the event, but argues that the Catholic school has an obligation to present the Church’s teachings at the same time in order to provide its students with a proper moral and spiritual foundation. The University of Notre Dame and its administration need to answer that criticism, as well as to decide if that is its mission — or if it just wants to be another secular school. — Ed]