[rhema]

Unless the university does not believe that the Church’s understanding of the moral law is true and knowable, it can no more in good conscience award an honorary doctorate of laws to a lawyer who rejects the humanity of the proper subjects of law than it could in good conscience award an honorary doctorate in science to a geocentric astronomer who rejects the deliverances of the discipline he claims to practice.

At some point, a Christian university must recognize that the truth it claims to know matters, even if the truth is unpopular, and even if the propagation and celebration of that truth may put one’s community at odds with those persons and centers of influence and power that dispense prestige and authority in our culture.

[Big_Monkey]

"The University of Notre Dame is a Catholic university

A Catholic university in name only. Theology classes are no longer a requirement of incoming freshman and haven't been for many years. The president of the the university may be a priest, but he's a priest that's much more closely aligned with the US Council of American Bishops than he is with Rome.

Ave Maria in Florida is one of, if not the only Catholic college that keeps to Catholic teachings.

[mrmargaritaville]

Who’s the commencement speaker?-man I’d love to see them go off on obama over his baby killing.

[GOP Poet]

A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust

Martin Luther King, by his own definition, would not have been on board for abortion rights laws as well as gay marriage.

[don-o]

ping

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"Why then would the University of Notre Dame bestow an honorary doctorate of laws on someone who for his entire public life has enthusiastically fought for a segment of the human population, the unborn, to remain permanently outside the protections of the law? "

Because the president of ND is a modernist fruitcake?

[victim soul]

We must pray to St. Thomas More. He said he was the king’s good servant but God’s first.

We Irish Catholics had martyrs for their Faith. Now it seems we will martyr our Faith for the world.

President Jenkins is currently not a good servant of his college and out of pride refuses to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.

Hail Mary, please accept my apology for this insult to you and your son.

[Salvation]

Keep hammering Notre Dame by FReeping these links and by all alums witholding your money.

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

[Salvation]

 

 

Francis Cardinal George
Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali
Bishop John D'Arcy
Bishop Robert Lynch
Archbishop John Nienstedt

Archbishop Timothy Dolan

Bishop Thomas Olmsted

Bishop Gregory Aymond

 

Eight Bishops have spoken out against Notre Dame.  Who will be next?

[wheathead]

I thought it might be interesting to post the Notre Dame mission statement.

The University seeks to cultivate in its students not only an appreciation for the great achievements of human beings, but also a disciplined sensibility to the poverty, injustice, and oppression that burden the lives of so many. The aim is to create a sense of human solidarity and concern for the common good that will bear fruit as learning becomes service to justice.

I guess the mission statement doesn’t apply to the unborn.