May 19, 2005, 5:10 PM EDT
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-vincent-resignation,0,5149077.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlinesHARTFORD, Conn. -- Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent resigned from several church institutions and refused an honorary degree to protest an editor's removal at a Roman Catholic magazine.
His actions were disclosed at Sunday's graduation at Sacred Heart University, where Vincent had been expected to accept an honorary doctorate. Fairfield University said he also resigned from its board of trustees.
Vincent told a local newspaper that he worried Catholic universities especially were at risk if debate over church positions was discouraged.
Under the Rev. Thomas Reese, the Jesuit weekly America had published articles on such topics as homosexuality in the priesthood and the use of condoms to stop the spread of AIDS...
Fay Vincent is a friend of Bush and son of a Boner,
"The junior George's diffidence in the matter of his secret name seems to reflect a larger ambivalence toward Yale and its select, the most elite of whom are the members of Skull and Bones. The elder George holds his fellow Yalies -- particularly his Bones brethren -- in great esteem, and over the years has often gone to them for advice. George W., in contrast, has publicly made a point of his disdain for the elite northeastern connections that shaped his father's world and, to some extent, his own. Fay Vincent, the former commissioner of baseball, who is a Bush family friend and himself the son of a Bonesman, says, "Young George is as unlikely a Bonesperson as I've ever met." Young George has not attended a Yale reunion since he graduated. "
http://skullandcrossbones.org/articles/skullandbones.htm 
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