{"id":1702827,"date":"2022-10-19T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702827"},"modified":"2022-10-19T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T00:19:24","slug":"catholic-college-defends-nun-administrator-who-endorsed-pro-abortion-student-group-while-restricting-pro-life-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/catholic-college-defends-nun-administrator-who-endorsed-pro-abortion-student-group-while-restricting-pro-life-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic College Defends Nun, Administrator Who Endorsed Pro-Abortion Student Group While Restricting Pro-Life Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcatholic-college-defends-nun-administrator-who-endorsed-pro-abortion-student-group-while-restricting-pro-life-club%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1702827&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Catholic college in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin<\/a> is defending an administrator who boasted about restricting a pro-life club on campus and supporting a pro-abortion one.<\/p>\n<p>Sister Laura Nettles, a nun in the order of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, and the executive director for Mission and Social Justice at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, boasted about \u201csignificantly curtailing\u201d the school\u2019s on-campus pro-life student group, and said she would \u201clove to say yes\u201d to a pro-abortion group at the school. But the president of the college stood by the administrator in a statement to The College Fix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSister Laura Nettles is an accomplished Catholic theologian who embraces Catholic teachings, including the Church\u2019s call to respect all life,\u201d Viterbo University President Rick Trietley told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/nun-who-talked-about-curtailing-pro-life-group-has-full-support-of-catholic-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The College Fix<\/a>. \u201c[She] has the administration\u2019s full support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has given voice to the university\u2019s Catholic identity and values, and she continues to strengthen connections among all members of the Viterbo family,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began in August, when Sr. Nettles held a Mission convocation for all employees as part of a faculty in-service. According to audio from the event obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prolifewi.org\/blog\/2022\/8\/25\/viterbo-university-to-significantly-curtail-pro-life-activities-on-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro-Life Wisconsin<\/a>, a faculty member asked Nettles why pro-choice students were not allowed to form a club on campus. Nettles said she had been approached about the issue, but could not endorse an explicitly pro-choice club because \u201ccalling [the club] pro-choice is a trigger against the Catholic church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to say yes to the club, but I asked [the student who wanted to start the club] if he would be willing to consider a different name like a \u2018Health Club\u2019 or \u2018Reproductive Rights\u2019 club,\u201d Nettles said. \u201cWhat this student described he wanted to do in the club was to really advocate for \u2026 women\u2019s rights in health care, to which I said, \u2018amen\u2019 to. So the question was whether he would be willing to think of a different title for it, but do much of the same work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Nettles said that the school is restricting the on-campus pro-life group, \u201cV-Hawks for Life,\u201d after the club hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/2022\/09\/13\/a-catholic-university-penalizes-pro-life-students-while-pro-abortion-classmates-send-violent-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tabling event<\/a> in May describing pregnancy resources in the event that <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>was overturned. The event was held just weeks before the Supreme Court overturned <em>Roe <\/em>in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization. <\/em>Nettles called the pro-life event \u201cpoorly timed\u201d and said the college is imposing restrictions on the club\u2019s activities. \u201cWe are significantly curtailing their activities, what they can do, what they can\u2019t do,\u201d she said. \u201cThey actually have to jump through a lot of hoops to be able to do what they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The College Fix, Trietly said he would not allow a pro-choice club to form on-campus because it would contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church. Trietly also blasted media outlets for posting the audio, claiming that it has been \u201cmisrepresented in the public domain,\u201d but said he would not release the full audio from the event.<\/p>\n<p>Viterbo University was founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in 1890. On its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viterbo.edu\/mission-and-ministry\/catholic-franciscan-identity\">website<\/a>, the college touts that a key piece of its Catholic identity is its \u201ccommitment to upholding the gospel understanding of the sacredness of all human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time Sr. Nettles is endorsing pro-abortion clubs on campus at Viterbo, a professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/professor-at-catholic-notre-dame-university-helps-students-access-abortions-despite-indiana-abortion-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre Dame University<\/a> is helping to facilitate abortions in violation of an Indiana State Law and the teachings of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic college in Wisconsin is defending an administrator who boasted about restricting a pro-life club on campus and supporting a pro-abortion one. Sister Laura Nettles, a nun in the order of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, and the executive director for Mission and Social Justice at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, boasted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}