To the Sentinel:
It is an outrage that a Georgetown priest professor refers to anyone who takes a strong position on the moral issue of abortion as showing “more passion than judgment when they stubbornly refuse to recognize the limits of what is politically possible.” According to this logic, a Nazi-era German should have been satisfied with saving Jews whose last names began with A through I, while foregoing — in “the limits of what is politically possible” — the saving of those whose names began with J through Z. There is no “compromise” on abortion-- though all must be aware that progress in eliminating this national scourge will be made incrementally. Nothing short of the total elimination of abortion must be our goal.
Georgetown chose to hide the name of Jesus at the request of this president when he spoke on the campus. Perhaps the Georgetown faculty overall has forgotten the biblical sanction for denying Christ, something it seems to do both explicitly (hiding the sign) and implicitly (attempting to neuter the needed outrage over abortion).
Perhaps when Georgetown and other Catholic Universities vigorously affirm the value of all life — not just that of the politically-safe “poor”— the need for abortion-protesting zealots will be a memory.

Arthur Henry
Portland