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Notre Dame's President at a Crossroads (predicted ND prez responses)
Inside Catholic ^ | March 23, 2009 | Deal W. Hudson

Posted on 03/23/2009 8:11:54 AM PDT by NYer

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To: Cicero
“Obama has led NOTHING in his life...” I agree with you, but I think our strongest argument is that Obama’s role as a leader has included fighting for the right of women to kill the babies they are carrying.
41 posted on 03/23/2009 9:41:31 AM PDT by utahagen
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To: utahagen

The guys with the White Hoods have killed far fewer blacks than Planned Parenthood.


42 posted on 03/23/2009 9:50:25 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: NYer
I have no affiliation with ND at all, but those of you who are alums or donors need to also call the development office (or whatever they call it at ND -- donor solicitation and fundraising are the people I'm talking about) and tell them your contributions are at an end, permanently, forever and ever amen, if Jenkins goes through with this.

And then influence as many other alums/donors to do the same as you can.

Money talks.

43 posted on 03/23/2009 9:53:12 AM PDT by Campion
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To: shibumi
The guys with the White Hoods have killed far fewer blacks than Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood and the Klan were all proud products of the Democratic Party.

44 posted on 03/23/2009 9:54:43 AM PDT by GOPyouth ("Uhhhhhhhhhh." - President B. Hussein Obama)
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To: NYer
We can count on Helen Thomas to cover this story, gloved hand with pencil at the ready.

After all, she is used to covering issues dealing with Queen Mothers.


45 posted on 03/23/2009 9:56:25 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Member of the Long Grey Line)
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To: Campion
I have no affiliation with ND at all, but those of you who are alums or donors need to also call the development office (or whatever they call it at ND -- donor solicitation and fundraising are the people I'm talking about) and tell them your contributions are at an end, permanently, forever and ever amen, if Jenkins goes through with this.

They are in the midst of an annual fund raising campaign right now. They called the house yesterday and I told them my donations had ended until Obama's invitation was recinded.

46 posted on 03/23/2009 9:58:23 AM PDT by Titanites
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To: GOPyouth

.....and I do believe that Margaret Sanger was a real “Klan Fan.”


47 posted on 03/23/2009 9:59:51 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: Campion
I have no affiliation with ND at all, but those of you who are alums or donors need to also call the development office (or whatever they call it at ND -- donor solicitation and fundraising are the people I'm talking about) and tell them your contributions are at an end, permanently, forever and ever amen, if Jenkins goes through with this. And then influence as many other alums/donors to do the same as you can. Money talks.

Amen. Catholics -- and all Christians -- have an obligation to exercise good stewardship over what God's given them. I stopped all contributions to my Protestant alma mater years ago when it and its denomination decided that apostasy would be a great way to earn the secular world's acclamation.

48 posted on 03/23/2009 10:03:09 AM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Titanites

Bishop D’Arcy is one of the better bishops, so please be polite in contacting him.


49 posted on 03/23/2009 10:48:30 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam
Bishop D’Arcy is one of the better bishops, so please be polite in contacting him.

You should be polite in contacting any bishop, even if they aren't one of the better ones.

50 posted on 03/23/2009 11:02:46 AM PDT by Titanites
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To: NYer
Call Fr. Tyson (Fr. Jenkins’ boss) and press 1 to leave him a voicemail.
Tel 574-631-6196

Call Vince LaBarbera (the director of communications for the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend) on his cell phone.
Tel 260-704-6164.

"I want to encourage the you to take bold action to counter the grave scandal at Notre Dame.

I know your office - unlike Notre Dame's Fr. Jenkins - is NOT indifferent to the wholesale slaughter of politically expedient innocents who are made in the image and likeness of God.

Honoring a man who consistently advocates such slaughter as good public policy is a grave scandal of the highest order."

51 posted on 03/23/2009 11:15:17 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Member of the Long Grey Line)
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To: Titanites
They are in the midst of an annual fund raising campaign right now. They called the house yesterday and I told them my donations had ended until Obama's invitation was recinded.

This Notre Dame alumna and parent, writing in the online Notre Dame newspaper, would agree:

My 40-year love affair with the University of Notre Dame - as student, alumna and parent - came to a sad and abrupt end upon learning the news of the invitation of Barack Obama to receive an honorary law degree and speak at my child's graduation. Everyone knows Obama's stance on the "life" issues and his opposition to what are the teachings of the Catholic Church. In his tenure, he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act, allow partial birth abortion and, most importantly, will appoint at least two Supreme Court justices who will enshrine Roe v. Wade into law for at least another 30-40 years.

There is a course taught at Notre Dame called "A Faith Worth Dying For." Do we really believe anymore that there are principles which are worth fighting for, perhaps dying for? Or is it all about making compromises with the culture, not appearing "strange" or "out there"? Is our Catholic faith really worth standing up and fighting for or is it just a comfortable, kumbaya, hand-holding-at-the-Our-Father kind of faith? The founders are rolling in their graves, right down the road in Holy Cross Cemetery. Ah, the cross - how inconvenient.

Mary Mullaney alum class of 1973 March 21

52 posted on 03/23/2009 11:15:29 AM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: NYer
Call Fr. Tyson (Fr. Jenkins’ boss) and press 1 to leave him a voicemail.
Tel 574-631-6196

Call Vince LaBarbera (the director of communications for the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend) on his cell phone.
Tel 260-704-6164.

"I want to encourage the you to take bold action to counter the grave scandal at Notre Dame.

I know your office - unlike Notre Dame's Fr. Jenkins - is NOT indifferent to the wholesale slaughter of politically expendable innocents who are made in the image and likeness of God.

Honoring a man who consistently advocates such slaughter as good public policy is a grave scandal of the highest order."

53 posted on 03/23/2009 11:16:34 AM PDT by Notwithstanding (Member of the Long Grey Line)
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To: XeniaSt

The priest should be reminded of the scripture Woe to those that call evil good and good evil. Because the priest is pretty much giving the ok to Obama. As a Catholic this pc attitude diminishes the shepherd feeding the sheep as Christ asked to be done.


54 posted on 03/23/2009 11:18:23 AM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: red irish
The priest should be reminded of the scripture Woe to those that call evil good and good evil. Because the priest is pretty much giving the ok to Obama. As a Catholic this pc attitude diminishes the shepherd feeding the sheep as Christ asked to be done.

As a teacher, one risks greater punishment for error.
NAsbU James 3:1 Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.
Jenkins needs to seek the face of G-d,
repent and turn from teaching error.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
55 posted on 03/23/2009 11:54:58 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: NYer

bttt


56 posted on 03/23/2009 12:45:54 PM PDT by Varda
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To: marshmallow

I knowit is easy for me to say, but I must say it: the bishop is afraid. He can issue some boilerplate about abortion being bad, but it would be hard for him to take action. And he will not because he is afraid.


57 posted on 03/23/2009 12:48:24 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: NYer
Another Notre Dame alum, this one a law-school graduate, weighs in with this open letter:

Dear Father Jenkins:

As an alumnus of Notre Dame Law School, I am deeply offended that you would invite President Barack Obama to speak at Commencement this year.

In his first days of office, Mr. Obama has chosen as his first federal court nominee a pro-abortion Indiana judge who has struck down Indiana's parental notification law seven times; reversed the Mexico City policy that prevented U.S. funding of pro-abortion groups internationally; lifted federal restrictions on stem cell research of human embryos; announced that he intends to reverse conscience clause protections for medical care workers; and named Kathleen Sibelius, who is so pro-abortion that she had to be publicly warned by her bishop, Archbishop Naumann, not to present herself for communion, as Secretary of Health and Human Services, to oversee all of these measures.

This is the person whom you feel is worthy to address the students and faculty of Notre Dame, in the shadow of Our Lady atop the Golden Dome, with the spires of the Basilica in the background? Father Sorin must be wringing his hands in heaven, that his successor would approve this disgrace. Shame on Notre Dame for choosing to scandalize the faithful who continue to support the Catholic identity and mission of the University.

Very truly yours,

William B. Newton, Esq.
NDLS '99

The online petition, by the way, now has over 31,000 signatures.

58 posted on 03/23/2009 1:21:23 PM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: Salvation
The online petition (can't remember if I pinged you about it) now has more than 31,000 signatures and is averaging more than 270 signatures per hour.
59 posted on 03/23/2009 1:27:28 PM PDT by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: NYer

The president of the college needs to be removed.


60 posted on 03/23/2009 3:08:06 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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