The report argues that the case for genocide exists and called on Secretary of State John Kerry to make such a declaration and to include Christians in it.
The Washington archdiocese said the issue is not about free speech because "lacking in this choice by the student group is any reflection of what should be an environment of morality, ethics and human decency that one expects on a campus that asserts its Jesuit and Catholic history and identity."
Father Rizzo said he usually hears 20-30 confessions a day in Italian or Spanish, but the number of penitents increases on Saturdays and Sundays, and he will offer the sacrament to at least 50 people each day on the weekend.
"What is particularly fascinating and troubling is all three recent popes were clearly opposed to the wars, yet at no level in the Catholic community was there any major opposition or sustained witness," San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy said.