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... On Thursday, Michael Dvorak, St. Joseph County, Indiana prosecutor, dismissed the criminal trespass charges that he has pressed against almost all of the pro-life protesters, known as the “ND88.” The individuals were arrested for trespassing when they entered Notre Dame’s campus in peaceful and prayerful protest against the University’s bestowing honors on President Barack Obama at the 2009 Commencement. Dvorak dropped the charges as part of an agreement between the Thomas More Society and the University.

An Academic “Ruling Class” Fr. Norman Weslin, O.S., at the complaint of Notre Dame, was arrested in May 2009 and charged as a criminal for peacefully entering the Notre Dame campus to offer his prayer of reparation for Notre Dame’s conferral of its highest honor on President Obama, the most relentlessly pro-abortion public official in the world. The university refuses to ask the St. Joseph County prosecutor to drop the charges against Fr. Weslin and the others arrested, still known as the ND 88 although one, Linda Schmidt, died of cancer this past March. Judge Michael P. Scopelitis, of St....

Here is the website address of a new petition to Father Jenkins to request the prosecutor to drop trespass charges against those who demonstrated against Notre Dame's honoring of President Obama: http://tinyurl.com/yb8dsts The sponsors are Human Life International, headed by Fr. Tom Euteneuer, a Notre Dame alumnus (and a strong supporter of Sycamore Trust), the Thomas More Law Society, headed by Thomas Brejcha, another Notre Dame alumnus (and another supporter of Sycamore Trust), and LifeSiteNews, a principal organ of the pro-life community. (South Bend counsel for the defendants, Tom Dixon, is also a Notre Dame alumnus and also a...

Judge Jenny Pitts Manier South Bend, Ind., Jan 12, 2010 / 06:05 pm (CNA).- The trial judge assigned to the legal case involving 88 pro-life activists arrested for demonstrating at the University of Notre Dame recused herself from the case last week. The activists had demonstrated against the university’s decision to host President Barack Obama as a commencement speaker and award him an honorary degree.Defense attorneys had appealed Judge Jenny Pitts Manier’s ruling denying their request that she recuse herself. In Indiana the standard for recusal states that the judge must be shown to have actual bias or the...

Notre Dame Football is 6-6 for the regular season. For Notre Dame, this was a horrible football year -- compared to the history of Notre Dame Football. Very few years in Notre Dame football have there been 6 losses. But there was another 6 for Notre Dame -- President Obama coming to the Notre Dame campus in May 2009. Many Catholics opposed the President coming to Notre Dame because of his Culture of Death views on ABORTION. The campus and South Bend, IN, was invaded by a number of pro-life groups, as well as trucks and airplanes displaying aborted babies....

SOUTH BEND, IN - Notre Dame Greets a New Pro-life Bishop While Father Jenkins Continues to Serve on a Pro-abortion Board. Father Jenkins declared that Notre Dame “engaged with” President Obama because “we care so much” about abortion and embryonic stem cell research. We will from time to time examine the nature and degree of this professed concern. We recently recounted Father Jenkins’s refusal to suggest the dropping of the trespass charges against the so-called “Notre Dame 88,” as well as the reasons for skepticism about his action in setting up a task force on life issues. Here, we...

The new bishop of the Indiana diocese in which the University of Notre Dame is located is a critic of the university’s decision to award President Barack Obama an honorary degree. Bishop Kevin Rhoades, the one-time rector of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., had served as bishop of his native Diocese of Harrisburg since 2004 before being transferred to the Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend on November 14. Bishop Rhoades, who recently declared a diocean Marian year and has a strong track record of attracting vocations to the priesthood, issued a statement in March condemning the...

Friday June 19, 2009 Bishops Curry, Kicanas Dismiss Sanctions, Stress Virtue of “Dialogue” in Wake of ND Scandal By Kathleen GilbertSAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two bishops questioned on the U.S. prelates' response to the Notre Dame scandal have suggested that the correct attitude to pro-abortion politicans at Catholic universities is unclear, and agreed with University president Fr. John Jenkins' emphasis on the paramount need for “dialogue.”Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry of Los Angeles told John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter during the USCCB's spring meeting that he suspected the bishops would bring up the unprecedented...

Wednesday June 10, 2009 ND Prez Jenkins Has "No Interest" in Asking for Leniency for ND Protesters Despite Calls for “Dialogue” By Kathleen GilbertSOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The president of the University of Notre Dame has "no interest" in interfering with the fates of over 80 peaceful pro-life protesters arrested on campus while protesting President Obama's May 17 commencement speech, says the pro-lifers' attorney. One of the arrestees, Lambs of Christ founder Fr. Norman Weslin, issued a statement Monday calling on University president Fr. John Jenkins to heed the arrested group's requests to meet, which Weslin...

O Mary Bright Dawn of the New World O Mary! Bright dawn of the new world, Mother of the living, to you do we entrust the cause of life: Look down, O Mother, upon the vast numbers of babies not allowed to be born, of the poor whose lives are made difficult, of men and women who are victims of brutal violence, of the elderly and the sick killed by indifference or out of misguided mercy. Grant that all who believe in your Son may proclaim the Gospel of life with honesty and love to the people of our...

Here is the video of Fr. Norm Weslin's arrest by University of Notre Dame police. He was carrying a cross and singing a hymn in honor of the mother of Jesus Christ ---"Our Lady" -- "Notre Dame." What evil deed did they think he was going to do if they didn't arrest him: launch a devastatng, full-scale Rosary barrage?

Thursday May 14, 2009 White House Downplays Catholic Opposition to ND Honor, Claims Only "One Group" Boycotting By Kathleen GilbertWASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Responding to the uproar from U.S. Catholic bishops and laity protesting the honor of President Obama at the University of Notre Dame, the White House Tuesday downplayed the degree of opposition, claiming that only one Notre Dame student group opposed the invitation and that "the majority of Catholics are supportive of the invitation."White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that only one student group at Notre Dame is boycotting the decision, as opposed to...

Wednesday May 13, 2009 Notre Dame President Sits on Board of Directors of Pro-Abortion, Pro-Contraception Organization By Alex Bush and John JalsevacSOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 13, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fr. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University, sits on the board of directors of Millennium Promise, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in Africa that promotes contraceptives and abortion, it has been revealed.  The finding comes as the controversy over President Obama's award and speech at the University reaches a fever pitch in the last week before the event.  As the president of Notre Dame, Fr. Jenkins has received the...

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Thursday May 7, 2009 Catholics Overwhelmingly Oppose Notre Dame Honor to Obama: Ramussen Poll May 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that more than twice as many Americans - and a wider margin of Catholics - oppose the University of Notre Dame's decision to give an honorary law degree to President Barack Obama, as those who support it.   The Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that, by a 60% to 25% margin, U.S. Catholics say Notre Dame should obey guidelines issued by the U.S. bishops and refrain from awarding an honorary degree to the president. ...

Thursday May 7, 2009 Archbishop Chaput: Habit of "Vanity and Compromise" Led to ND Scandal By Kathleen GilbertNEW YORK, May 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The University of Notre Dame's decision to honor pro-abortion President Obama resulted from "vanity and complacency" with modern culture, said Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver yesterday.  Chaput also remarked on the controversy stirred by President Obama's statement that America is "not a Christian nation," asserting that America is under attack from groups working "very vigorously" to de-Christianize popular culture. The Catholic News Agency published portions of the archbishop's remarks to the American Bible Society in...

Thursday May 7, 2009 68 U.S. Bishops Oppose Notre Dame's "Serious Mistake" By Kathleen GilbertSOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Two more bishops are continuing the steady stream of criticism aimed at the University of Notre Dame for honoring President Obama with the commencement address and an honorary law degree May 17.  However, unlike several of their brother bishops, the two bishops say that despite the gravity of the scandal, the invitation ought not to be rescinded out of respect for the office of the Presidency.In the latest edition of The Tablet, the newspaper of the diocese...

This is finals week for students at the University of Notre Dame. But a new kind of buzz may be getting in the way of scoring good grades, and it's not illegal (yet, anyway). For the past 10 days the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform has been conducting an air and land campaign in, around and over the Notre Dame campus to educate students and faculty exactly what its intended May 17 commencement honoree, President Barack Obama, supports by being "pro-choice." On the roads are CBR's "Reproductive 'Choice' Trucks," six-paneled moving billboards with large signs such as these plastered on...

Wednesday May 6, 2009 Notre Dame's 40+ Year History of Unfaithfulness to the Church by Patrick B. Craine SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) -The University of Notre Dame's invitation of President Obama to deliver their 2009 graduation commencement address on May 17th has generated great controversy in the North American Church and shocked many Catholics who have looked to Notre Dame as the very model of Catholic higher education in America.  This invitation, however, is by no means an isolated incident, and, in fact, is merely a continuation of Notre Dame's progressive self-detachment from the Catholic Church...

Dr. Alan Keyes going to Notre Dame to be arrested: Calls on pro-lifers nationwide to join him.