Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said: "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
The greatest challenge facing the western world is not violence from without, but the tragic decision to take a life within.
Posted on 04/05/2016 5:37:25 PM PDT by marshmallow
The local bishop, students, alumni and now a group of faculty have joined The Cardinal Newman Society in criticizing the University of Notre Dame administration for its scandalous decision to award abortion and same-sex marriage advocate Vice President Joe Biden with "the oldest and most prestigious honor accorded to American Catholics."
"Notre Dame claims to award the Laetare Medal 'annually to an American Catholic in recognition of outstanding service to Church and society.' But our Faculty for Life Chapter agrees with Bishop Kevin Rhoades that the awarding of the Laetare Medal to Vice-President Biden is a scandalous violation of the University's moral responsibility (as the American bishops wrote in 2004) never to honor those who act in defiance of fundamental moral principles about the sanctity of life," the Notre Dame chapter of University Faculty for Life stated in a resolution that passed unanimously on April 1.
The resolution stated that Biden has “conspicuously rejected Church teaching about life” for decades, citing positions taken by Biden during his political career.
"Saying that Mr. Biden rejects Church teaching could make it sound like he is merely disobeying the rules of his religious group. But the Church's teaching about the sanctity of life is true. And so the Vice-President rejects the truth that human life begins at conception," the faculty stated. "He rejects the truth that every human life deserves protection, from conception until natural death.He rejects the truth that public officials like him have an especially grave duty to preserve the least of our brothers and sisters from harm."
(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...
You can face a huge fine and possible prison time for destroying a sea turtle egg. But, destroy a small human life? A human with unlimited potential.That’s OK. This is sick.
Father Jenkins lies when he says he is Pro-Life.
when the ND faculty rescinds the award to Obama (whose one and only legislative proposal, insofar as anyone has ever revealed, was that full-term babies born alive should be made legally murder-able if their parents had wanted to abort them)
when ND takes back its award to O, then maybe we can consider contributing to the university again
Lunch Box Joe is far from being a practicing Catholic, let alone a practicing Christian.
I quit donating to Purdue when they had Bill Ayers as a guest speaker. I can’t imagine what I would do if Purdue gave Odumbo a doctorate.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said: "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
The greatest challenge facing the western world is not violence from without, but the tragic decision to take a life within.
Notre Dame is abortion signaling.
They don’t have the guts to come right out and support abortion, so they use people like Biden to signal their support.
The bishop should suspend every priest connected with ND, for starters.
But the bishops of South Bend have all been wimps. Richard McBrien lived openly with a concubine for decades, and the bishops of South Bend and his home diocese (Archd. of Hartford) did nothing.
What “outstanding service” has Joe Biden ever done for the Church?? I don’t count giving scandal as “outstanding service”.
I was considering taking a degree at ND. Flushed that idea immediately when we saw the big award to O.
I am told that the same Chicago radical communist mob that Obama belonged to .... took over ND’s governing board several years ago...?
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. --Matthew 7
If a bishop would shut down the chapel on the campus,or tell the Holy Cross priests to leave, that would still shock the school.Wait another ten years, or no, I don’t think so.
The current bishop, and his successors, will have a million reasons they can’t do anything. And they will do nothing, until the U.S. collapses, Christians are imprisoned, and Muslims are given license to kill Christians, and it won’t matter anymore.
Yes. The takeover story is true.
Notre Dame is now pro-abortion. St. Mary’s, just next door, fired E. Michael Jones 35 years ago—for being pro-life. THEY SAID SO.
Well - they sure don’t act Catholic anymore — “values” in opposition to judeo- Christian morals — maybe if the Church can’t clean house on campus then at the very least the Bishop might issue a public warning to parents, prospective students, and prospective donors that the schools aren’t OK anymore. It’s just truth in advertising —
If the Pope only had and email account!
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