Notre Dame Expects Obama to Wear Prayer to Virgin Mary on Chest When He Accepts Honorary Degree

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=46844 ^ | 4-17-09 | Edwin Mora

[mdunn121]

IS IT ME or DOES ANYBODY ELSE BELIEVE THAT OBAMA IS IN FACT “ The Enemy of the State “ ? This is starting to bother me... He’s our President... Right?

[smoothsailing]

Yep, W was fine with it, works for him, works for me.

Why do it otherwise?

[pankot]

MY thought exactly. There really IS a Pope, isn’t there? Or has he been silenced?

[henbane]

Expect him to pull on a big sweat-shirt over the robe before he walks on stage.

[BlackElk]

This is a Catholic question and not some quandary for Emily Post. As a Catholic, I don't care if this pro-abort Obamanation is emperor of the universe or POTUS. He has absolutely NO BUSINESS being allowed on the Notre Dame campus much less giving commencement addresses or receiving an "honorary" doctor of laws degree.

If the Holy Cross fathers have so far apostasized from the Faith that they would tolerate the presence of this POS, then my bishop (Doran) is certainly right to suggest that ND be renamed Northwest Indiana Humanist University and stop sullying the name of Our Lady. Additionally, ND can stop vomiting on the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church by posing for holy pictures as though the school were still Catholic when, in fact, it is devoted to academic anarchy and all things in enmity to the Faith.

[BlackElk]

The Vatican can and should discipline Fr. Jenkins and any other priest complicit in this outrage.

[ArmyTeach]

I’ve had that idea fluttering around in the back of my mind and seeing someone else tune into it just about blew me out of the water. Thought it was just me.

[ArmyTeach]

to take away Notre Dame's right to call itself a Catholic university. Would that require a name change?

[ArmyTeach]

to take away Notre Dame's right to call itself a Catholic university. Would that require a name change?

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

I know there is a church hierarchy -

I’m wondering where the buck is stopping on this one & yet it’s still confusing because the Vatican has still not yet accepted the Obummer’s Admin pick for envoy/ambassador from the U.S.

along with the Notre Dame controversy- yikes!- there’s been nothing

[Dr. Sivana]

I can see objecting to an honorary degree, but it’s perfectly appropriate to invite him to give the commencement address.

No. It is not perfectly appropriate. His being president makes it worse. I would have less problem inviting someone who happened to be pro-abort, but neither trumpeted it, nor was in a position to do much with it. If Julia Child (she was a pro-abort who didn't make a big deal about it) were invited and talked about cooking, it wouldn't be the scandal of having a pro-abort president telling the students how to change the world and make an impact, because all would be coming from the perspective of a man who could not even get the basics right. Of course, it'd be better to bring on someone you could respect.

Still, there are enough inspiring Catholics of note, that Notre Dame should not have to stoop to invite a man who is in almost every way the enemy of the Church and of the Natural Law written on men's hearts.

My young children ask me about Obama when I describe his ways, and I do emphasize that it is better to be a nation under law than a nation not under law, even when the executor of the law is unfit for the position. Respect for the office, however, does not mean I ought to invite him into my living room to give an address. I respect the office, and I fear that it may be shredded in even more pieces when he and his henchmen are done.

[Myrddin]

Your points are all correct. When Obama finishes the charade, his muzzie buddies will be laughing at Notre Dame. He will be judged smarter than those he deceived.

[Salvation]

Would be really funny to me if they insisted he wear it. I doubt that he will.

And he definitely doesn’t deserve any award or honorary degree.

[Salvation]

Keep FReeping Notre Dame.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231446/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2230231/posts

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=87#87

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2210995/posts?page=101#101

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2212664/posts?page=29#29

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2212664/posts?page=37#37

[taxesareforever]

No doubt if he wears it, it won’t be visible.

[BruceysMom]

I am a Messianic Jew and I agree with you 100%

[D-fendr]

Perhaps...

Mary has been known to touch the hardest of hearts.

[rhema]

No, it is not. IF Hitler had been invited to speak, at a Catholic University, in Europe, the libs and Catholic bashers would be bringing it up, to this day! Obama is a disgrace, and should not ever step foot on Catholic grounds without strong protest from all Church leaders.

If Presidents have always been routinely invited to speak at Notre Dame, the invitation to Obama is understandable. The biggest issue in this contretemps isn't, as Catholic baiters would like to assert, Obama's speaking at Notre Dame; it's the university's conferral of a "Juris Doctor Honoris Causa" honorary law degree upon him.

It’s a matter of public record that Obama’s legal career is rather puny, not exactly distinguished by "honoris causa" standards. He worked on about 30 cases in four years before he was launched into politics at a Bill Ayers soiree.

Obama rarely has spoken about his time at Columbia and Harvard, and for good reason. He graduated without honors from Columbia with a major in political science. We don’t know his LSAT scores to get into Harvard; he’s never released them. His elevation to editorship (he was named an editor along with about 40 of his classmates at the end of his first year) of the Harvard Law Review is not exactly laden with merit. Before he arrived at Harvard, the qualifying standard had been changed from assignment based on grades to one in which half the editors were chosen through a writing competition. The New York Times reported in 1990 that the process was "meant to help insure [sic] that minority students became editors of The Law Review." Unlike most editors, Obama wrote very little. Indeed, he had credited to his account only one edited, unsigned article in 1990 ... before he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review (an honor that used to go to the student with the highest GPA). Unsurprisingly, the article argued against any limits on abortion. After his election as President of the HLR, he contributed not a single signed word to the HLR or any other law journal. Unlike most presidents of the HLR, Obama did not go on to clerk for a Supreme Court justice.

In short, Obama’s law "career" is checkered, obscure, and exceedingly unprepossessing. No "honoris causa" candidate he.

As President, his legal maneuverings and executive orders have been primarily to loose every possible restraint on abortion, here and abroad.

Obama has already been the most demonstrably pro-abortion President we’ve ever had, all in fewer than 100 days of office. Anyone who follows the radical course he’s taken on abortion is flouting and trampling the "Catholic tradition, which brings specific spiritual and moral values to bear upon daily life and legal judgments" mission statement upon which the Notre Dame Law School, not to mention the Catholic faith, is undergirded.

If abortion acolyte Obama is eligible for an "honoris causa" honorary degree at Catholic Notre Dame, then Yassir Arafat would qualify as Doctor of Humane Letters at Yeshiva University, and Tuskegee University should be making immediate plans to bestow a posthumous honorary degree upon George Wallace.

[EternalVigilance]

so as not to be seen out of context.

Well, they do have a point. Seeing Obama, or whatever his name is, associated with Christ in any serious way would be quite incongruous.

[chatham]

The Bufffoons at Notre Dame can only do More Damage and create more Insult by Having the “Abortionist in Chief” wearing a prayer to to the virgin Mary.

They can’t be Catholic and be part of the disgrace to the Mother of God.

This Obama is making a point of showing insulting and denigrating all of the faith of Catholics the world over.