Posted on 03/23/2009 1:40:16 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
“We have invited the president and he's honored us by accepting," Jenkins said. "We are not ignoring the critical issue of the protection of life. On the contrary, we invited him because we care so much about those issues, and we hope for this to be the basis of an engagement with him."
Dear Bishop D’Arcy,
Does Fr. Jenkins think you, and the USCCB, and the Church --- all the rest of us --- are total idiots?
You don’t “engage” with a person who is embroiled in massive, murderous moral wrong by inviting him onto a floodlit, nationally-televised public platform and giving him an honorary Law Degree.
You “engage” by dialog, by debate, by challenge, by confrontation.
You use right respect, right reason, and right judgment.
Censure is called for.
Reprobation is called for.
“Judgment” is called for.
Fr. Jenkins’ defense of his decision to honor Barack Obama is simultaneously so smooth and so stupid, that I am convinced it expresses an underlying contempt.
How does this add up?
The selected man: the most consistent proponent of state-sanctioned killing of the innocent ever elected to public office in the United States. (*See accompanying list.)
The acts: comprehensive immediate material cooperation with unjust killing on a catastrophic scale *
The consequence: the highest honors a Catholic University can bestow.
The decision to an honorary Law Degree upon Barack Obama means at least two things:
• Obama’s record of advancing the practice of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia means nothing so very dishonorable in the eyes of the leadership of the University of Notre Dame, and
• Notre Dame’s identity as a Catholic University means nothing that makes a dime’s worth of difference in its most public, identity-defining acts.
The defiance: Everyone knows that the “Parent-Teacher Organization” at the parish of “St. Otilie the Obscure” would not be allowed to invite an unrepentant Klansman, or anti-Semite, or pornographer, or abortion-promoter to accept a public honor.
Everyone bets, however, that President Obama is too big to disinvite, and Notre Dame is too big to discipline.
It’s bigger than the Diocese. It’s bigger than the Church. It’s bigger than God.
Bishop D’Arcy, if Notre Dame University pulls this off, it will mean to the hundreds of millions who are watching, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, that when push comes to shove, being Catholic doesn’t mean a goddamn thing.
But what can you do? God help us, what can you do?
Bishop D’Arcy, this is well within your authority as a Successor to the Apostles:
I’m no canonist and I'm no Catherine of Siena – just an ordinary over-talking and under-performing sinner like the rest of us. But I beg you to take this suggestion seriously. This is as serious as a heart attack --- in the heart of the Church in America.
You have the ring, the mitre, and the crozier. The crozier means you are to protect the lambs and seriously dismay the wolves, and not the other way around.
As God’s most unworthy servant, I beg you.
[signed]
*Material cooperation with unjust killing and other intrinsically immoral acts.
A partial--- not a comprehensive --- list.
Infanticide (2002) The Induced Infant Liability Act would have protected the right to humane medical treatment and palliative care for babies that survived late-term abortions. As an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against it and finally killed it in committee.
Abortion: As a U.S. Senator, Barack Obama received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Congressional Record on Choice:
2007: 100 percent
2006: 100 percent
2005: 100 percent
Euthanasia: a deadly paradox: voted in 2005 (along with a unanimous U. S. Senate) in favor of the right of a brain-injured woman (Mrs. Terri Schiavo) to a Federal judicial review of a lower court’s decision that she should be starved and dehydrated to death. Subsequently, Obama repeatedly stated (e.g. during the first televised presidential primary debate on MSNBC) that that was the ONE vote he regretted during the time when he served in the U.S. Senate.
As President: among his first acts as U.S. President were his decisions to:
THIS --- AND THE LANDSLIDE OF LITIGATION THAT IT INVITES --- THREATENS THE ENTIRE CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND EVERY CONSCIENTIOUS HEALTHCARE WORKER IN AMERICA.
He needs the fake law diploma to balance out the fake birth certificate.
Good .. God bless you. It’s so disgusting
to witness this.
This is the answer. Oh, so what. The school can go to he!! as far as I care. Yes, institutions of lower learning. & the fish stinks from the head.
Visiting priests from other dioceses, for instance, are not supposed to say Mass without the local Bishop's permission. This is not an insult to visiting priests. I can't have a priest buddy say Mass in my garage; not without the bishop's permission. And this is not an insult to my garage. It's just an acknowledgment of the local bishop's jurisdiction.
If the ND leadership goes into a mode of direct defiance by rejecting both the USCCB requirement AND the local bishop's order that such people as Obama must not be honored, ND as an institution has become outlaw.
That doesn't mean evrybody in it is excommunicated or damned or any such thing; it just means when they go to Mass, they must go to Mass in an authorized place, because Masses on campus are no longer authorized.
The good thing about withdrawing permission for Mass on campus is that nobody is deprived of the Sacraments; only a place is restricted.
No punishment for an individual.
But a clear-as-daylight that ND as an institution has incurred due penalty for direct defiance of lawfully constituted authority.
I thought the whole Life thing was above his pay grade.
3. Contact Fr. Jenkins: Call him at 574.631.5000, fax him at 574.631.2770, write a personal email president@nd.edu, or mail your letter to 317 Main Building, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Obie tries to make buddies with Iran. They say, “Screw you.”
ND tries to make buddies with Obie. He’ll say, “Screw you.”
I can't get thru to you, so don't reply...OK?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=28#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=87#87
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=101#101
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=102#102
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2212664/posts?page=29#29
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2212664/posts?page=37#37
FReep the links above!
Randy Terry's opening an office in South Bend.
And Joe Scheidler/Prolife Action League is on it like a duck on a junebug. Quote from his site:
"If Notre Dame does not disinvite Obama, Scheidler says, the Notre Dame campus can expect a massive pro-life protest on graduation day, including the use of large, graphic abortion pictures that show exactly what Barack Obama supports."
Looks like a high percentage of active ingredients.
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Papal Smiley.
The only problem with all this is that Bishop D’Arcy does not have any direct control over ND. He can suggest, he can refuse to attend, which he has in the past, but he can’t make them stop. ND is run by the Holy Cross Order.
At the same time, it woiuld be a powerful force putting other powerful forces in motion, resulting in a crisis that could well blindside the secular faction. And what we need more than anything else, is a salutary crisis. Business as usual will kill us. Kill us. Here and hereafter.
Meanwhile, would the word "interdict" enable the forces of secular hegemony turn our good Bishop D'Arcy into a Torquemada in the eyes of the Secular Press? Well, they would do that no matter what D'Arcy did, especially if it were effective. Let me repeat that idea: anything he does will turn him into "Torquemada," to exactly the degree that he is effective. We can't be checkmated by that.
But ---- really ---would the secular hegemons give flying figs whether Masses were moved off-campus? What I have in mind is that the honoring of Moloch-Obama ---and the open defiance of the USCCB in one of its (few) really worthwhile rulings --- is already desecrating Notre Dame, and interdict would recognize that fact.
Just the threat of it would be a powerful tocsin to arouse the faithful. It's a bishop's way of saying: this is serious as hell.
And the secular folk --- what could they object to, credibly? They're not worried about where they're goingto Mass! It's not like D'Arcy were messing with something sacred to them...
What matters is not what the academic canonists say. What matters is that the earth shakes under their feet.
A bishop is called to be a successor to the Apostles. Not like a scribe.
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