He has given pro-life Catholics a prominent voice in the campus. He has reformed Notre Dame in terms of banning the Vagina Dialogues from that campus.
Father Jenkins still has a ways to go, but there are good Catholics at Notre Dame.
For the Obama Commencement, the University allowed a second Commencement ceremony to be held at the same time.
So Father Jenkins was forced to give in to the protestors.
There is the famous Notre Dame 88, which has lost two of its members (one to cancer). The other, Father Norman Weslin recently passed away.
These were 88 prolifers that were arrested for being on the Notre Dame campus.
Father Jenkins and Notre Dame eventually saw all the charges dropped against these people.
The short of this is that Notre Dame has been hurt by the Obama invitation.
Hopefully the changes after the Obama invitation (increase power to prolifers on campus) will continue...
Though you may be right that Notre Dame has a ways to go to be a solidly Catholic University.
Ping
“Father Jenkins and Notre Dame eventually saw all the charges dropped against these people.”
You view things a little too optimistically. Fr. Jenkins had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing, here, and only after investigations showed evidence that Notre Dame had treated pro-ABORT protestors at Notre Dame far more favorably, giving rise to potential multi-million-dollar lawsuits against this hellhole.
The fact is that Notre Dame is an anti-Catholic institution with a vibrant Catholic minority community.
My son was accepted at Notre Dame for the coming year, but our visit there this past fall persuaded him that it isn't really much of a place for any self-respecting Catholic.
sitetest
Good to hear that they learned a lesson, albeit the hard way.