Trump has already won one for The Gipper.
Posted on 12/05/2016 5:32:12 PM PST by marshmallow
If President Obama’s appearance at the Notre Dame commencement in 2009 sparked an unprecedented uproar among American Catholics, imagine what inviting President Trump to graduation might provoke.
That concern is making Notre Dame's president, Fr. John Jenkins, think twice about making a pitch for the incoming U.S. president to receive an honorary degree, an appearance that almost any school would normally covet — and one that the iconic Catholic university has been more successful than others in securing.
“I do think the elected leader of the nation should be listened to. And it would be good to have that person on the campus — whoever they are, whatever their views,” Jenkins told the student newspaper in an interview published Dec. 2.
“At the same time, the 2009 commencement was a bit of a political circus, and I think I’m conscious that that day is for graduates and their parents — and I don’t want to make the focus something else," Jenkins told The Observer, the paper serving the South Bend, Ind., campus.
“My concern a little bit is that, should the new president come, it may be even more of a circus,” he added.
"Circus" may even be an understatement, is describing the controversy over Jenkins' decision to invite Obama to give the main commencement address in May 2009 and receive an honorary degree.
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I knew what you meant...I was just pulling your leg.
Sadly, the overwhelming majority of universities could all be called “Liberal University.”
So, Fr. John Jenkins, tell us more about the many pedophile priests and the higher-ups in your Catholic Church that covered it up, then talk about a circus.
I would have to get out my Microgivashitmeter to measure my disappointment
Trump has no interest in going to ND. He is a winner. No way he wants the stench of losing associated with the football team anywhere near him.
Hehe
If he was a baby killer like Obama they’d welcome him with open arms. ND sold it’s soul 8 years ago.
At least he won’t make them cover all the “religious” things first.
The invitation of BHO to Notre Dame, the placation of Nancy Pelosi the abortion king and Queen, the same sex marriage heros) are why I am no longer a practicing Catholic. The church operates in hypocrisy and bigotry primarily for financial gain and I want no part of it.
A bit part of the uproar is that Obama made Notre Dame cover all the crosses. And the caving Catholics there followed his orders. That was a travesty. In case of active persecution of Christians, Notre Dame will be safe because it seems they won’t stand for the faith.
Meh....Notre Dame isn’t a Catholic school anyway.
Now retreat to your safe spaces.
He should feel good about that. Why waste the time for that liberal garbage?
they gave the muslim some sort of honorary degree, they’d better follow suit or neither my son, who graduated from there, nor I, will give them another dime.......and we have given them a LOT of dimes!!!
Notre Dame is irrelevant.
It appears y'all were fools. Notre Dame went down the tubes in 1952 when the heretic, Hesburgh, took it's helm. Shame on you.
I 'm not sure that he was the cause, I;m still trying to figure it out and I don't like the overall results at all...I'm certain that my son gives them about $10,000 per yr, and I kick in another $2,000....no more until I get an explanation from them as to what's going on.
Very true. Trump has Liberty, Texas A&M, 4 Military Graduations, VMI, and many other universities. Not going to Notre Dame will not kill anyone. Plus I think it would be cool for Vice President Pence to go since he is from Indiana and is Catholic.
The cath-olic university which welcomed Obama and embraced abortion
Trump has already won one for The Gipper.
Chomsky is free that day
All he’s doing is depriving some of the students of opportunity to meet the President. Hurting students and not doing a thing to Trump.
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