Shake Down the Thunder on Notre Dame

Catholic Online ^ | 4/26/09 | Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer

[tcg]

"Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame! Wake up the echoes cheering her name. Send a volley cheer on high; shake down the thunder from the sky. What though the odds be great or small, old Notre Dame will win over all, while her loyal sons go marching onward to victory." (Notre Dame Fight Song)

I used to sing these words with tremendous zeal while a student at Notre Dame (ND) in the '80s and especially as a member of the ND Glee Club for a year. How proud we were to belt out this most famous of college fight songs and rally the troops for battle on the gridiron - and elsewhere! ND alumni do not need to be reminded how deeply embedded in our hearts this tune and these words are; we only need to be assured that they still mean what they indicate: namely, that Notre Dame's loyal sons are still "marching onward to victory" (of Catholic orthodoxy, that is.)

The decision of Notre Dame President, Fr. John Jenkins, to invite our nation's abortion-promoter-in-chief to speak at the May 17th commencement is such an egregious violation of our loyalty to our alma mater that it's hard to see how these words actually to Notre Dame apply any more. Who wants to "wake up the echoes cheering her name" now? Fr. Jenkins has just shaken down a sort of spiritual thunder on what used to be the country's premier Catholic university, and woe to him and the rest of the ND leadership for their decision to put Notre Dame definitively outside the scope of Catholic orthodoxy.

[tcg]

The ones who made or endorsed this decision are not thinking with the mind of the Church let alone the Mind of Christ.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“Shame shame for old Notre Dame”

[not2worry]

Obviously principles before politics was not in the minds of the dodo that invited O to speak.

I know lots of ND Alumni that are going to stimulate other organizations associated with the Catholic Church that practice what they preach!

[Canedawg]

Many Catholics seemed to have joined the great majority of Jews, and have exchanged their true religion for the pathology of liberalism.