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" Enda Kenny, the taoseaich of Ireland, has been invited to be the commencement speaker at Boston College in a couple of weeks. This has prompted some hollering and hooting from the anti-choice peanut gallery. An online petition has been circulated to anti-abortion groups in the United Statesurging the Jesuit-run university not to invite Mr Kenny because of the proposals contained in the Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill. The campaigners claim the Bill facilitates abortion in Ireland for the first time. Phone numbers and email addresses for US Cardinal Sean O&amp;#039;Malley, Rev Leahy, and even to the Pope, who is a Jesuit, were included in the email. The Catholic Action League executive director C J Doyle, an alumnus of Boston College, said of the college&amp;#039;s decision to invite Mr Kenny: &amp;quot;Even for a university whose Catholic identity is as compromised as that of BC, this decision is shameful and dishonorable.&amp;quot; This is all hooey, of course. (Doyle is a bush-league local Bill Donohue, a nuisance with a mailing list.) What&amp;#039;s really bugging the peanut gallery are the steps that Kenny has taken as taoseaich to pry the Church loose from its traditional place of power and influence in the Republic of Ireland. Most notable among these efforts was his thunderous speech to the Dail Eireann concerning the Cloyne Report, which details decades of abuse visited upon children in the various institutions run by the Church. And Boston College is presently caught up in an international controversy regarding a research project into the violence in Northern Ireland, and the desire of the law-enforcement to get its hands on the records of that project. Kenny&amp;#039;s rather caught in the middle of that, too. So far, BC has stood the gaff from the peanut gallery, and from the British authorities, on all of this, and good for it. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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