Notre Dame's President at a Crossroads (predicted ND prez responses)

Inside Catholic ^ | March 23, 2009 | Deal W. Hudson

[TASMANIANRED]

How about honoring him for his lack of leadership.

[Jeff Chandler]

permitting The Vagina Monologues to be performed on campus.

So Obama isn't the first ****** to perform on the campus.

[NYer]

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.

Nonsense!

[RobbyS]

We will see.

[dangus]

Hitler was a great leader. Unless he repents, Fr. Jenkins will meet him in the afterlife, for marching as a first lieurtenant in the culture of death making war against the saints.

[dangus]

The four horsemen of the Obamalipse?

[airborne]

I believe that if Obama is stopped from speaking, it will be because donors threaten to cut off money, not for any religious considerations.

And then the libtards on the left will howl! Oh how they love to hate the faithful!

[cthemfly25]

I wish not to be critical of Father Jenkins but his decision is so disheartening to many of the faithful who have worked hard through prayer, through action and through giving of their treasure to stop or at least make strides at abating abortion and embryonic experimentation. I have two words which forcefully respond to ND and to Father Jenkins: “born alive”. Of course that is the touchstone title of legislation stridently opposed by then Mr. Obama legalizing the murder of a child “born alive” as a survivor of (mostly chemical) abortions.

A commencement speech is not an “engagement” (as Father Jenkins euphemistically describes his apologia) between the Church Militant and this anti-life, anti-liberty president. Father Jenkins has granted this president a homilitic prop to be used against us; a propogandist’s tool. No one can excuse this action who believes solemnly in the cause of life

Finally, this decision saddens me as the Church is the witness to the world on issues of morality and liberty. Many outside the Church are looking upon this with an “I told you so” disdain toward what they now justify as calling our dogmatic hypocrisy. And, of course, within the Church, many are applauding this “progressive” decision as it promotes a different and more insidious agenda regarding Church teaching. How is it that Father Jenkins does not see this? How is it that the Bishops now are to be seen as having the moral authority to act decisively against catholics who vote for and support the culture of death? How is it that this campus, consecrated to “Our Lady”, be allowed to promote a most hideous agenda? I will pray that the Holy Spirit guide us all.