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It's safe to say that Obama has not prayerfully reflected enough over this issue, nor thought it through with sufficient attention. The liberal modernist clergy who go whoring after liberal and Ivy approval in the universities are usually immature and suffering from poor formation. It's an intellectual error that the abortion issue is not important or grave enough to bar someone from honors at a Catholic university. That's what should get attention - Fr. Jenkins (and Notre Dame's) intellectual error here.

The comments and articles by Prof. Charles Rice and Prof. McInerny were on target and displayed the best of Notre Dame. That's a positive result.

Prof. Rice is a very good man...and this year's recipient of the Laetare Medal will most certainly blast Obama from the very podium where he will have to deliver his commencement address, since she goes first.

Mary Ann Glendon, a professor at Harvard Law School who recently stepped down as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal at commencement ceremonies May 17. She is a pro lifers' pro lifer. We alums are hoping she will make appropriate comments about Obama's terrible positions on abortion and embryonic stem cell research. Glendon speaks immediately prior to Obama.

The nonsense coming out of Notre Dame is to use her as cover for their ghastly error in allowing Obama to speak. Fr. Jenkins likes to think of himself as an intellectual leader of a free thinking university that allows all kinds of diverse thought. He has proved this to be in error by allowing the Vagina Monologues to continue to be played as a means of cozying up to the faculty senate. Now he has shown his continued visual flaw by allowing Obama to speak all in the name of tradition. Ugh....