Jesuit U.S.F. Brings The Condom Bishop, Pro Abortion Activist Marian Wright Edelman And Extremist Lawyer Kamala Harris To Speak At Commencement

SAN FRANCISCO, California, May 4, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A South African bishop famed for his opposition to Church teaching on contraception will receive an honorary degree at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco (USF) at commencement May 22. Another commencement speaker will be San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, a strong opponent of true marriage in California. Pro-abortion activist Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund will speak as well.

Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenberg in South Africa is listed on the University's website as the homilist at the Commencement Mass on May 21, as well as the honorary degree recipient and commencement speaker for humanities and science students' graduation ceremony from the College of Arts and Sciences May 22.

Dowling achieved his claim to fame in 2001, when he became the first African bishop to defy Church teaching on contraceptive use and endorse the use of condoms to prevent HIV.

In November 2005, Bishop Dowling told a Chicago Tribune correspondent that in his impoverished diocese, where prostitution runs rampant, "the only solution we have at the moment is condoms."

In an April 2007 Grand Rapids Press article, Dowlings said of the HIV battle in South Africa: "Abstinence before marriage and faithfulness in a marriage is beyond the realm of possibility here. The issue is to protect life."

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