Ave Maria Commencement Speaker: Obama "viciously pro-abortion"
Miriel Thomas issued a challenge to her classmates Saturday during the commencement ceremony at Ave Maria University.
Valedictorian for the Catholic school's class of 2009, Thomas spoke about how students formed personal foundations during their college experience.
"Now it's time to go out and engage the world," said Thomas, a politics major from Port Huron, Mich. "I'm encouraging my fellow graduates to live good lives, to be virtuous intellectually and morally."
Altogether, 114 degrees were conferred — 61 bachelor's, 49 master's and four doctorate's - in the school's fifth commencement and second on the new campus in the town of Ave Maria near Immokalee.
Dr. Thomas W. Hilgers, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Creighton University, criticized the selection of President Barack Obama as commencement speaker May 17 at the University of Notre Dame during remarks to graduates and an audience of about 750 in the oratory on campus.
Hilgers described Obama as "viciously pro-abortion" and cited reasons why Obama should not speak at a Catholic university. But Hilgers was encouraging to the Ave Maria graduates who hail from 27 states and three counties.
"You now are equipped to do things you weren't prepared for before," he said.
The student farthest from home was Ana Vasilj, a native of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is the second in her family to graduate from Ave Maria, joining her sister Ivana, a member of the 2005 class.
"This is a place with a special spirit," she said. "Our goal now is to carry it wherever we go."
"Now it's time to go out and engage the world," said Thomas, a politics major from Port Huron, Mich. "I'm encouraging my fellow graduates to live good lives, to be virtuous intellectually and morally."
Altogether, 114 degrees were conferred — 61 bachelor's, 49 master's and four doctorate's - in the school's fifth commencement and second on the new campus in the town of Ave Maria near Immokalee.
Dr. Thomas W. Hilgers, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Creighton University, criticized the selection of President Barack Obama as commencement speaker May 17 at the University of Notre Dame during remarks to graduates and an audience of about 750 in the oratory on campus.
Hilgers described Obama as "viciously pro-abortion" and cited reasons why Obama should not speak at a Catholic university. But Hilgers was encouraging to the Ave Maria graduates who hail from 27 states and three counties.
"You now are equipped to do things you weren't prepared for before," he said.
The student farthest from home was Ana Vasilj, a native of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She is the second in her family to graduate from Ave Maria, joining her sister Ivana, a member of the 2005 class.
"This is a place with a special spirit," she said. "Our goal now is to carry it wherever we go."
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