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[RobbyS]

I guess that we are all guilty of apathy. If wee were not, then we would stand by the thousands outside the abortion clinics.

[SuziQ]

He explained that the idea of truth “has been rendered doubtful by the slow advance of a soft agnosticism that has itself become orthodoxy at so many universities.” This has not yet occurred at Notre Dame, McGurn argued, but he warned that “without a witness,” “our crosses, statues, and stained- glass windows will ultimately fade into historical curiosities.”

Well said, Mr. McGurn!

[ishmac]

I just received the following email. It purports to be a copy of Fr Jenkins' suspension. If it is accurate, Bsp D'Arcy has suspended Fr Jenkins in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. Has anyone else heard of this? If it is true, it is HUGE. Here's the letter/email:

Duly Promulgated and Publicly Published by Authority of

His Excellency

the Most Reverend John M. D'Arcy

by Grace of God and Provision of the Apostolic See

Bishop of Fort-Wayne-South Bend

Be it known by all persons that by this canonical provision and decree which I have published today by my own authority and voice, that Robert I. Jenkins, priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, and President of Notre Dame University, for having perpetuated scandal by inviting and soliciting a public sinner and murderer of children, to address my subjects, the students of Notre Dame University, and having been publicly and privately admonished to adopt a contrary course of action, and moreover having contemptuously failed to do so, is now bound by the following medicinal penalties being hereby extradjudicially imposed ferendae sententiae by administrative and penal decree subject to revision or alteration only by myself (to the exclusion of my vicars general and episcopal), by my successors, the proper Ordinaries and Bishops of Fort Wayne-South Bend, or by provision of the Apostolic See, to wit,

Robert I. Jenkins, person and cleric, is hereby suspended a divinis for the exercise of all orders in and for the Diocese of South Bend.

1. Accordingly, he may not licitly celebrate Mass either in public or in private, and my subjects are forbidden under pain of mortal sin from attending Masses celebrated or concelebrated by this priest. Furthermore, such Masses do not fulfill the observance of any precept with respect to Sundays or holydays of obligation. Likewise, the faithful not in danger of death, are bound to abstain from receiving Holy Communion from him.

2. This same priest cannot validly hear confessions, impart absolutions, assist at marriages, or administer Confirmation, except in favor of one who is in the immediate danger of death in articulo mortis in such wise as the danger of death is not merely urgent, but likewise in extremis.

3. While suspended, Robert I. Jenkins is bound to silence with respect to my subjects, and may publish nothing to them whether in writing or word of mouth. My subjects are bound under pain of mortal sin, to abstain from hearing his sermons or reading his publications.

Let Robert I. Jenkins now know that the violation of this decree latae sententiae incurs irregularity for the exercise of orders.

Effective immediately on this the first day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand Nine, in the fifth year of the Pontificate of Benedict XVI, now gloriously reigning.

(Signed) +John M. D'Arcy

Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend

In witness whereof the Seal and Insignia of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend

Fr. Robert C. Schulte, Vicar General and Chancellor of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend

To be duly placed upon the Chancels of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and published in Today's Catholic.

WOOOOOWWWW! If true, of course. Has anyone else heard anything?