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What does the senior class say? This should be asked of them to see what they say. Now being the good Catholics they are, they should ask for a replacement. The problem is having a President (popular or not) is such an honor that it might be difficult for the seniors to turn down this. I met three Presidents (Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II) and just meeting one President for most people is incredible. I am just talking about the office of the President...I am unsure what FREEPERS getting involved is any business of ours. We would have FREAKED if the liberals did this to President Bush speaking at Harvard...How did this start anyway??? Is this because the President is Democrat? I think some Catholics are Democrats but not many.

We would have FREAKED if the liberals did this to President Bush speaking at Harvard

Depends on what grounds. If Harvard disinvited Bush because his policies violated the Harvard charter, as principles individuals that we are we would understand their decision.

No, it is EMPHATICALLY not because he’s a Democrat. It is because he is the most heinously pro-muder politician ever to come upon the national stage. And, sadly, many Catholics vote Democrat pretending that the abortion and eutanasia issues are just not that important. Obama got 54% of the so-called “Catholic” vote.

At a special assembly in Englewood, Colo., back in 2004, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops made a ruling that no Catholic institution is to provide a platform or honors for anybody (politician or private citizen, Democrat or Republican, Catholic or not) who advocates the violation of fundamental moral norms.

So, to make it plain and simple, Obama is not eligible to speak on Notre Dame's platform or be bestowed with Notre Dame's honors.

True, the "no platform, no honors" ruling has been manfully enforced by some bishops, only intermittently by others.

This event is galvanizing people in a way I cannot remember seeing in the past 20 years, because

Obama is not just passively or squishily "pro-choice," but is actively and aggressively promoting abortion literally around the world, moving to strip healthcare providers (both individuals and institutions) of conscience rights concerning objectively immoral procedures, as well as supporting infanticide in the case of infants born alive subsequent to attempted abortion, and the killig of adult citizens under Terri-Schiavo circumstances; (whew) and...
the University of Notre Dame is giving him an honorary doctor of laws degree, clearly conveying that this is their idea of good law.

That's why the brouhaha. Here. Now.

Is this because the President is Democrat?

No, it's about his committed support of abortion -- especially his support of "late term" abortion.

"The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act," Obama said in his July, 2007, speech to abortion advocates worried about the increase of pro-life legislation at the state level.

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) is legislation Obama has co-sponsored along with 18 other senators that would annihilate every single state law limiting or regulating abortion, including the federal ban on partial birth abortion.

He is so pro-abortion that he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede -- as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor -- that these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact "persons."