Posted on 05/02/2009 2:37:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
This coming week, Bishop Thomas Wenski of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando, Fla., will take the unusual step of celebrating a Mass of Reparation, to make amends for sins against God.
The motivation: to provide an outlet for Catholics upset with what Wenski calls the University of Notre Dame's "clueless" decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak at its commencement and receive an honorary doctorate May 17.
The nation's flagship Catholic university's honoring of a politician whose abortion rights record clashes with a fundamental church teaching has triggered a reaction among the nation's Catholic bishops that is remarkable in scope and tone, church observers say.
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Me too!
Interdict might be the better option.
“Sez who?”
Point very well taken.
"He who hears you hears Me; and he who rejects you, rejects Me; and he who rejects Me, rejects Him Who sent Me" ( Blessed Apostle Saint Luke 10:16 )
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