from plans to host President Barack Obama, a supporter of abortion, as commencement speaker, and within days of Hughes' announcement of opposition to Obama's appearance the Times-Picayune published a letter to the editor urging that Hughes should instead have complained to the Pope about the short-lived appointment of Wagner to be auxiliary bishop of Linz. References 1954 births 20th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests Living people Pope Benedict XVI People from Freistadt District 21st-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests Religious controversies in Austria