Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
Bill McGurn ·
Jun 8, 2011 at 2:02pm
Since Ricochet was the first place where I introduced this story, Ricochet readers should know how it's ended. Just a little while ago, Roxanne Martino resigned from the Board of Trustees. The resignation came after news that she had donated thousands of dollars to explicitly prochoice groups, and after the university chairman and president had each put out extremely misleading statements about those donations.
Here's the official announcement.
Here's the news story that just came in.
It's sad that someone who obviously has enormous talents had to come to this kind of end. It's sadder still how the way ND handled it all put her in the worst possible light.
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Re: Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
Roxanne Martino has done the honorable thing. Now, just when will the chairman of the board get around to explaining how this happened? Or how in his own mind he could possibly have justified his crude attempt to whitewash the facts?
Jun '10
Re: Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
Apparently, Notre Dame is led by what Benedict XVI (I think it was him) call "professional Catholics." At the office, when they have to be, they're "Catholic," but when they leave the office and go home, they say and do what they really believe--something very different.
Jun '10
Re: Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
Saddest of all is that this woman contributed through her donations to the murder of babies and the exploitation of girls and women in crisis pregnancies.ND is really batting 1,000 here. Their release speaks of the situation in a typical wimpy way: "in the wake of reports criticizing donations she has made to organizations that characterize themselves as pro-choice." The organizations do much more than characterize themselves as pro-choice. Their primary mission is abortion rights!
Re: Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
Yes, the ND announcement was notable for its language -- as well as for its lack zof any regret that the chairman of the board and the university president had put out misleading information. At the least, they would seem to owe the Notre Dame community a full and thorough airing of how this could happen, and why they were willing to put their names on statements that weren't true.
Second, the last Ricochet post I put up -- in the wee hours Saturday evening -- was the result of new information that showed the woman had given not only to Emily's List but a similar state pac. You may imagine that it came from my own Deep Throat, or was slipped under my door at night.
In fact it came from a friend with whom I'd been discussing the case over dinner. He went home, started Googling Ms. Martino -- and within 20 minutes, had found the damning information. I verified it and posted two hours later. If a guy from NJ can find this in 20 minutes playing on his computer, shouldn't the ND Board of Trustees be able to find this stuff before it makes a decision?
May '10
Re: Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
Hmm... Notre Dame. Was that a Catholic University?
Dec '10
Re: Notre Dame Trustee Resigns
One can hope the chairman of the board and the president are next. Clean house, Notre Dame.