A couple days ago, Georgetown’s Division of Student Affairs sent out an email blast listing the speakers at the upcoming 2020 Cardinal O’Connor Conference (COCC) on Life. One of those due to speak at a panel on ‘The Consistent Life Ethic & The Law’ is Catherine Glenn Foster, current head of the anti-abortion lobby group Americans United for Life, and according to her biography on the COCC website, former ‘Litigation Counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom.’ Strangely, what Fos

In a few short weeks, Georgetown will host the annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life. This conference, touted as the largest pro-life conference at any college in the country, will feature keynote speakers such as Sr. Bethany Madonna, who consistently express homophobic and misogynistic views. The namesake of the conference, Cardinal John O’Connor, was an extremely immoral figure in the church who, at the height of the AIDS crisis, actively worked to block AIDS preventi

​​​​​​ The 2020 Cardinal O’Connor Conference (COCC) on Life announced Sr. Bethany Madonna as one of the keynote speakers, making note of her important and admirable work with pregnant women to give them access to vital health resources and financial support both during and after pregnancy. COCC neglected to include information regarding Madonna’s anti-LGBT views and her criticisms of other women’s sexual liberation. Sr. Bethany Madonna is a member of the Sisters of Life, a pr