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The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica have issued a statement in response to the 2024 Benedictine College commencement address following Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s speech, which the sisters say does not reflect the Catholic school’s values. Butker’s speech does not represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that the founders envisioned and in which they have been so invested, the statement read. Instead of promoting unity, his comments have seemed to foster division, with the school highlighting his assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a wo…