Dan Cirucci: Society Fights For Religious Liberty, Catholic Values

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Society Fights For Religious Liberty, Catholic Values

A very special message from the Cardinal Newman Society:

September 5, 2014
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Dear friends,This is what religious persecutionlooks like.
As we reported last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown's administration is violating federal law by forcing two Catholic universities and other religious employers to include "elective abortion" coverage in their health plans.
Now we've exposed their hypocrisy! Your Cardinal Newman Society broke the very important story that California's own health plans for state employees cover only "medically necessary" abortions—even while claiming that similar Catholic employers' plans are discriminatory and unconstitutional!
California's abortion mandate is an outrageous attack on the religious freedoms of Catholic educators. We've done our investigative research, and with the attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom and the Life Legal Defense Foundation, we're doing everything we can to fight back. Please pray for us.
Meanwhile, the University of Notre Dame has again undermined its own lawsuit against the Obama administration's HHS mandate by renewing a student health plan that covers contraceptives, including some that cause abortion. A student plan!
Perhaps that's a selling point for prospective students in Notre Dame's pre-college summer course on "Gender and Culture in American Society," which seems intended to dispel the Christian understanding of male and female.
Now contrast that with the vision for student life presented by Father Sean Sheridan, TOR, president of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, at The Cardinal Newman Society's conference of student affairs professionals. Or Pope Benedict XVI's vision for Catholic higher education as described by Dr. George Harne, president of the College of St. Mary Magdalen.
And there's much hope in the expansion of classical, Catholic schools and plans for a Catholic high school for students with special needs. Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us!

Sincerely,

Patrick J. Reilly
President

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About Dan Cirucci

He's been cited by the late Rush Limbaugh, quoted in the New York Times, featured at Real Clear Politics and Lucianne.com and interviewed across all media.

He's Dan Cirucci, the founder and editor-in chief of the Dan Cirucci Blog, a Save Jersey blog columnist, frequent guest on the Matt Rooney radio show and one of the most widely honored public relations professionals in his field. He's also been a public relations consultant to numerous organizations and individuals and hosted The Advocates on RVN-TV.

Inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame, for many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.

Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post, Broad and Liberty and other print and online platforms.

A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He served as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington and on the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Judicial Selection Commission.

He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award, the highest honor from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.

In his hometown of Camden, Cirucci taught fifth grade at the Ulysses Wiggins Elementary School named for the founder of the Camden NAACP. There he was one of the first teachers in the country to teach African-American history to inner city students. He later served as editor of a local weekly newspaper, as Assistant to the Township Manager of Cherry Hill Township and as Associate Director of Communications at the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Cirucci's passions include all things Italian, politics, the popular culture, books and authors, art, communication, music, theatre, movies, dining and travel.

He and his wife Carole have two grown children and seven grandchildren.

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