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Jim McDermott | May 5 2016 - 12:43pm | 9 comments

Part I: Bill Clinton and The Cardinal Newman Society

President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton applaud during the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 12, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Over the last month Loyola Marymount University (where I live) has faced repeated criticism for its decision to have former president Bill Clinton as its undergraduate commencement speaker.
Some of that criticism has come from a local group dedicated to “strengthening L.M.U.’s Catholic identity.” But far more has been leveled by the Cardinal Newman Society, a national organization that aims to “promote and defend faithful Catholic education.”

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