Posted on 01/27/2017 5:40:32 PM PST by marshmallow
(RNS) Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, a leader of the conservative wing of the Catholic hierarchy in the U.S., is denouncing President Trump’s critics for displaying what he says is unprecedented opposition to the new president.
And he suggested that the University of Notre Dame honor Trump with an honorary degree at graduation this spring.
“Since Inauguration Day critics of Donald Trump have marched, rioted, verbally abused and in some cases viciously assaulted their opponents on a scale previously unseen,” Chaput wrote in a column published Friday (Jan. 27) as he was in Washington for the annual anti-abortion March for Life.
He noted that some of Trump’s statements and actions during the campaign “were deeply troubling” but he repeated his contention that Hillary Clinton “had her own equally, though different, ugly and disqualifying baggage.”
Chaput has said that Trump’s opposition to abortion — the real-estate mogul supported abortion rights until he entered politics — was a key factor for Catholic voters.
“Mr. Trump is now President Trump, and curiously, some of the harshest, on-going fury directed at him has nothing to do with his personal character,” Chaput wrote. “Rather, it’s a very special brand of ‘progressive’ intolerance for the approach his administration may take toward a range of difficult social issues, including abortion.”
The Catholic bishops have welcomed Trump’s executive order barring funding for overseas programs that provide counseling on abortion and his administration’s high profile presence at the March for Life, as well as his pledge to name a Supreme Court justice next week who would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Just another reason to hate Notre Dame....
I have a feeling that were PRESIDENT Trump to be invited to an institute of higher learning, (any denomination) Church, Synagogue, Mosque etc etc etc he will not be DEMANDING statues or symbols be covered up.
Same as when it is appropriate he will salute, place hand over heart etc etc etc.
Little things that AMERICANS do.
If they gave it to Obama, they must also give it to Trump.
Otherwise they are showing rank political partisansanship, which is supposedly unacceptable.
Hoost them on their own petard.
If they gave it to Obama, they must also give it to Trump.
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Guess the Nobel Committee didn’t get the memo...<: <: <:
I’m not sure the Nobel Committee seeks to be nonpartisan (though choosing Obama for the Peace Prize suggests they don’t seek to participate in reality).
My point is that Fr. Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame kept trying to make the point that he got it merely because he was POTUS, and that politics and political affiliation had nothing to do with it, brazenly overlooking the glaring problems about Obama vis-a-vis the Catholic Church.
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