Posted on 05/10/2009 11:58:40 AM PDT by Steelfish
Catholic divide over Obama at Notre Dame
The outrage highlights gulf between church and backers of abortion rights
NEW YORK - A campaign by outraged Roman Catholics to keep President Barack Obama from delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame shows that the gulf between the church and backers of abortion rights remains deep.
Yet the effort to get the school to rescind its invitation to Obama also highlights a political disconnect between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and millions of U.S. Catholic voters.
Since the White House announced in March that Obama had accepted Notre Dame's invitation to speak May 17, more than 358,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that the university take back the offer.
The Cardinal Newman Society, an advocacy group for Catholic colleges that circulated the position, said the invitation violated a 2004 bishops' mandate that stated, "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles."
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Well, Heaven isn’t divided.
AP wouldn’t understand religion or morality if it bit them on the proverbial rear end.
No Divide here ND is wrong ...GOD even said so!!
AP via MSNBC report: “News directly from the mouth of Satan”
Impossible to disagree with that!
0bama thinks :shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
- savage personal attacks is humor
- slow painful torture and murder of children is choice.
- tyranny is liberty
- pouring water over Muslims is torture
There is no reconciling the two worldviews now. No way for us to live under one umbrella.
The states must assert their sovereignty, and people will have to move in and out of states that suit them or not.
Forcing us together will only cause bloodshed and war.
more than 358,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that the university take back the offer.
358,000 people. I had no idea the conservative Catholic hierarchy was that large!
divide and conquer.
The Catholics? Easy deal.
Certain VIPs (Very Important Priests) curiously tone deaf to the values of their church, and of their faithful believers. A little reminescent of another recent clerical scandal.
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