As incredible as it seems, the comments below the article are worse than original oped.
Posted on 05/18/2009 9:49:29 AM PDT by Zakeet
President Obama's reception at Notre Dame showed once again that a new generation of Americans, including Catholics, is looking for a different kind of leader, not one who speaks down to his audience, demands strict loyalty and demonizes opponents, but one who addresses complexity with honesty, acknowledges disagreements and tries to bring people together for the common good.
President Obama showed himself to be respectful of Catholic views, of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame and of Catholic leaders like Notre Dame's former president, Father Ted Hesburgh, and Chicago's former archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.
In his speech, he praised Notre Dame for being, in the words of Father Hesburgh, both a lighthouse and a crossroads. "The lighthouse that stands apart, shining with the wisdom of the Catholic tradition, while the crossroads is where 'differences of culture and religion and conviction can coexist with friendship, civility, hospitality and especially love.'"
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President Obama did exactly what he needed to do at Notre Dame. He challenged the students to take on the problems of the day, he spoke beyond them to the wider audience of Catholic citizens and presented a demeanor that contrasted with those who tried to paint him as a demonic, anti-life fanatic. His message was the need to work together to solve the problems and challenges facing the world not by exacerbating divisions but by bringing people together.
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As incredible as it seems, the comments below the article are worse than original oped.
They're too stupid to know that this is exactly what they got in the Zero.
This article is bs.
If Obama was so moved by Bernadin, I wonder why he did not become a Catholic?
Thomas J. Reese, S.J.
A disgrace to the Catholic Church
Are Jesuits even Catholic anymore? I mean, technically?
An excellent point! But I supposed he was "moved" in the way a man is "moved" when he checks into a hotel room with his mistress.
He later says it was good, but not good enough to divorce his wife over.
And why? Why make such an effort to beguile Catholics?
Because a) our vote really matters and b) he's attempting things as president that no real Catholic would countenance for an instant. He's on the offensive.
Their functional premise is that the media will never, ever portray the true doctrine to anyone, and therefore that lax Catholics can be fooled into thinking that anyone and everyone who "protests" what happened at Notre Dame is a "right wing extremist," and God knows nobody wants to be one of those.
However, this is a faulty strategy, because the Church ain't General Motors, and Obama can't change the law of the Church like he did the laws affecting credit and commerce. The Church will speak the truth, Catholics will get it, and will respond with a conviction that will make the head of this presumptuous liar spin.
Obama, you've f&*ked up.
Jesuits.......Despicable anymore.
He is UNDERMINING our CATHOLIC CHURCH with CATHOLIC HELP!!
Quit your whining. You don't know your church, if your in such a tizzy.
He's going to crash and burn in a spectacle that makes 9/11 look like grass growing.
“demands strict loyalty and demonizes opponents,”
He must be talking about liberals.
1. The Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a mortal sin in any and all circumstances.
2. To be a Catholic, one must unreservedly hold as truth all that the Catholic Church teaches.
3. Therefore, any person who does not believe that that abortion is a mortal sin in any and all circumstances is not a Catholic, but a heretic.
It really is just that simple.
Yo, Fr. Sorin! Pray for us!
This is really extraordinary. How can there be compromise on a topic where no compromise can exist?
One either allows the child in its mother’s womb be born; or the child’s life is ended in the womb.
It is as simple as that.
The pro-choice folk who have you believe otherwise.
They also favor saving whales, and penguins and seals and polar bears before human children. I like all of those animals, but they are not as important as children.
Sadly, Reese is right - in the headline at least. Bambi effectively nationalized the Catholic Church yesterday, taking it over just the way he has taken over every other industry.
With the help of traitors on the inside, such as Jenkins and the herd of dumbos chanting “yes we can” at the graduation, he stripped it away from its legitimate directors, the bishops and Rome, and essentially made himself its central figure.
Poor dumb bishops. Even the good ones were too weak and too late in their protests, and the only one who could actually have done anything, Bp D’Arcy, said all the right things but never followed through with any action. And now they’ve lost their authority and lost their church.
The only way they can get it back is if they act right now to strip ND of its Catholic status and suspend Jenkins. But they won’t. The USCCB is forming a committee to “examine” it, something that normally takes at least a year and often several years.
By that time, we’ll probably see the Abomination of Desolation sitting in the Holy Place.
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