Notre Dame Observer Rejects Rice Column on Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality

E-mail | 03-02-10 | Bill Dempsey

[mlizzy]

Prayers for Notre Dame

[Ben Mugged]

Used to be a great Catholic college. Now just another social experiment.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Mr. Rice is barking up the wrong tree in thinking that a Catholic university is a Conservative institution. For the most part, Catholic = Liberal. I said, for the most part, not all.

[mlizzy]

Sad, sad. And things surely haven’t picked up since “you-know-who” dropped in for a visit and “honorary” degree. My husband and (ND grad) tells me that students have started another campus newspaper he’s pretty sure. That’s a good sign at least.

[RIRed]

Charlie Rice actually is what Notre Dame only pretends to be.

[MrChips]

Oops! Better cover up those male nudes Michelangelo left on the walls at the Vatican!

[ntmxx]

Good point on the social experiment…although;

It’s really about political corruption and undermining individual freedoms disguised as speech for only the extra-Constitutional pop-culture and political class.

[madprof98]

I thought that cartoon was so tasteless and extreme that it must have been published to draw attention to the grievances of ND’s restive homosexuals. This seems to confirm my guess.

[mlizzy]

Ahhhh, Notre Dame *will* win over all though. How's that for positive thinking? I really like Charles Rice and McInerny, who just recently passed away. Good ND guys for sure!

Here's one of my favorite posts my husband wrote:

You are Knute—and Upon this Rockne I Will Build "The Irish"

(I even tear up at the title -- too many viewings of Rudy I think :))

[Palladin]

Notre Dame has long ceased to be a Catholic college.

They should be forbidden to call it “Catholic”.

Maybe the new bishop out that way is working on revoking their “Catholic” designation.

[ZULU]

America is suffering from a socio-cultural disease wherein the once recognized moral authority of Judaeo-Christian values has been replaced, among the elites, with a philosphy of total moral relativism.

One of the causes of this moral relativism is the failure of many organized religions or their representatives here to follow traditional Judaeo-Christian moral values and embark instead on journeys of social activism into areas not intruded upon by religion here in the past, to the neglect of their real and proper functions as moral beacons.

This is creating a theological socio-cultural gap into which newly invading Muslims with their oftentimes repugnant, but none the clearly defined moral code are intruding with incerasing success.

[Varda]

"students have started another campus newspaper" That's the Irish Rover.

[mlizzy]

Maybe the new bishop out that way is working on revoking their “Catholic” designation.

I pray he can put the clamps on Jenkins. Just not allow him to say Mass, etc. Although there are other problems there, he's the biggest, wouldn't you think?

[mlizzy]

I’m familiar with The Irish Rover. I like that publication. Would there be another one perchance?

[awake-n-angry]

“America is suffering from a socio-cultural disease wherein the once recognized moral authority of Judaeo-Christian values has been replaced, among the elites, with a philosphy of total moral relativism.”
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When did we recognize the “moral authority of Judeo-Christian values”? And when did we (or anyone else for that matter) agree upon the definition of Judeo-Christian values?

[trisham]

In a university that claims to be Catholic, I am not willing to restrict my presentation of Catholic teaching to a format that treats the authoritative teaching of the Church as merely one viewpoint or “side” among many. If you require that future columns of mine on homosexuality comply with a format such as you propose, it will be inappropriate for me to continue writing the column for the Observer.

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Good for him!

[jagusafr]

The Irish Rover

Why does, “Green alligators and long necked-geese, some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees” go through my mind every time I see that phrase?

Colonel, USAFR

[Pyro7480]

Mr. Rice is barking up the wrong tree in thinking that a Catholic university is a Conservative institution.

Then why do Christendom College, Thomas Aquinas College, University of Dallas, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Ave Maria University (among others) receive high marks in the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Choosing the Right College guide?

For the most part, Catholic = Liberal. I said, for the most part, not all.

No, too many Catholics are liberal first, Catholic second.

[RIRed]

What tho the odds be great or small

Thanks for that comment and link.

[bunkerhill7]

I give it a 50-50 chance:

Luke 17:34-36
“I tell you, in that night there will be two (men)
in one bed; the one will be taken and
the other will be left.”

What these guys are doing in one bed, only God knows.