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**Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana changed his mind and spoke at a campus pro-life rally.**
God bless Bishop D’Arcy!
**”It is certainly the place for the bishop to be here,” D’Arcy said. “John D’Arcy’s not important, but the office of bishop if very important and it must always be like Pope John Paul II to stand up for life all the time, everywhere without exception.”**
Wow! Real spine!
it must always be like Pope John Paul II to stand up for life all the time, everywhere without exception.”
Why then have we not heard from the Pope????
GOD Bless Bishop D’Arcy...
“Wherever the Bishop is, there is the Catholic Church” ~ Ignatius of Antioch
What a wonderful decision on his part.
This ND-Obortion scandal will remain a watershed event after which public support of abortion will actually cause headaches for any Catholic.
Is this a subtle zing at Benedict, who's been AWOL?
Well, President Obama DID speak at Notre Dame, and they DID confer upon him an honorary doctorate. And a lot of good, sincere and rightfully angry Catholics spoke out.
But what of “The Church?” Certainly, 77 US Bishops criticized or condemned Notre Dame. Yet, in the face of a clear violation of the authoritative declarations and policies of the Bishops Conference, the leadership of Notre Dame, a Catholic University under the direct authority of the Church, defied them. They defied the policy, authority and will of the Roman Catholic Bishops overseeing them.
So, now, Catholics let it go? Let by-gones be by-gones? Forget it? Look forward to next years Football Season, and return to their devotion at the feet of “Touchdown Jesus?”
With the exception of a relative few exceptional Catholic laymen and “lower rung” clergy, it appears the Church is ready to wash their hands of the controversy. And if that’s the case, then the Roman Church in America is institutionally double-minded and insincere.
I know, as a Protestant, who am I to criticize the Catholic Church? But if this is the gross violation that so many have claimed, and yet the offenders went ahead with it anyway, despite warnings, pleas, and protests, then the “authorities” in the Church should not let it die — they should STILL take punitive action.
For 500 years, Popes, Councils, and various other tribunals had no compunction about condemning heretics, sanctioning those who erred, and recalling those who were insubordinate. Why, on this matter, would they stop now?
If Catholics actually believe in the authority of the Church as they claim, if the sanctity of life is one of the paramount values the Church still holds to, and if Catholic heirarchy desires to retain any shred or vestige of their credibility, it seems to this lowly Baptist that they should act now in a manner consistent with their convictions. At the very least, the removal of Notre dames leadership, and/or the withholding of Church funds from the school, would be more than appropriate to begin with...
Am I wrong, my friends?
Well great!
What a black eye for the fake Catholics. The bishop was lucky not to get arrested though.
A TRUE MAN OF GOD!!! Thank you and God bless you, Bishop D’Arcy!!!!
Good for Bishop D’Arcy that he showed up WHERE he did, and did NOT show up where he should not have.
Sad, though, that - as insiders will know already - he tried to get Ambassador Glendon to accept the Laetare Award.
Judge Noonan who, piously but naively (in the face of the great evil to which Obama has devoted his considerable power), proclaimed “Truth Will Out,” comes from Boston, where Bishop D’Arcy was Auxiliary for a number of years.
Not too difficult to figure out how he was persuaded to sub for Glendon.
What would it have been like if, as in the “summons to court” scene from BECKET (the movie with Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole), Bishop D’Arcy had arrived, cope and mitre, with the protestors and marched through that gate reciting the Rosary, and then - as the old rite said of the mitre, “adorned with the horns of both Testaments to appear fiercesome to the enemies of Truth” - had said to the police: “STAND ASIDE OR ANSWER FOR IT WITH YOUR IMMORTAL SOULS!”
*sigh* now THAT would have been a WITNESS with . . . . uh . . . spine. Yeah, spine.
Enough with the polite persuasive “engagement” with these monsters. We need a peaceful but DRAMATIC confrontation.
Of course, when only 76 of the mitred weenies dare speak up . . . what do you expect?