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To: Sully- who wrote (29793)	3/25/2009 2:57:47 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

South Bend's Bishop John D’Arcy Will Not Attend Notre Dame's Commencement Kathryn Jean Lopez The Corner From the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne Indiana: Concerning President Barack Obama speaking at Notre Dame graduation, receiving honorary law degree March 24, 2009 On Friday, March 21, Father John Jenkins, CSC, phoned to inform me that President Obama had accepted his invitation to speak to the graduating class at Notre Dame and receive an honorary degree. We spoke shortly before the announcement was made public at the White House press briefing. It was the first time that I had been informed that Notre Dame had issued this invitation. President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred. While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life. This will be the 25th Notre Dame graduation during my time as bishop. After much prayer, I have decided not to attend the graduation. I wish no disrespect to our president, I pray for him and wish him well. I have always revered the Office of the Presidency. But a bishop must teach the Catholic faith “in season and out of season,” and he teaches not only by his words — but by his actions. My decision is not an attack on anyone, but is in defense of the truth about human life. I have in mind also the statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops in 2004. “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.” Indeed, the measure of any Catholic institution is not only what it stands for, but also what it will not stand for. I have spoken with Professor Mary Ann Glendon, who is to receive the Laetare Medal. I have known her for many years and hold her in high esteem. We are both teachers, but in different ways. I have encouraged her to accept this award and take the opportunity such an award gives her to teach. Even as I continue to ponder in prayer these events, which many have found shocking, so must Notre Dame. Indeed, as a Catholic University, Notre Dame must ask itself, if by this decision it has chosen prestige over truth. Tomorrow, we celebrate as Catholics the moment when our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, became a child in the womb of his most holy mother. Let us ask Our Lady to intercede for the university named in her honor, that it may recommit itself to the primacy of truth over prestige. >>> corner.nationalreview.com

To: Sully- who wrote (29793)	4/1/2009 6:48:39 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

How Catholic is Notre Dame? By Paul Power Line The University of Notre Dame has invited President Obama to speak at its commencement ceremonies. Obama has accepted the invitation. At the ceremonies, as is the custom, Notre Dame will award him an honorary degree. Notre Dame, of course, is a Catholic institution. The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. President Obama, by contrast, believes that woman should be able to have abortions on demand. So committed is he to making abortions available that he has struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform them. From the Catholic and anti-abortion perspective, he has thereby, in the words of the Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, "brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life." It is shocking to me that Notre Dame would honor Obama under these circumstances. Indeed, in 2001, the U.S. Catholic Bishops declared <<< The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions. >>> However, as a non-Catholic I thought I should consult a devout member of that faith before writing on the subject. Here is how a good friend and devout Catholic responded when I asked for his view: <<< Notre Dame has a history of inviting pro-choice public officials to speak. Then-Governor Mario Cuomo spoke there in the 1980s. He purported to explain how he could be a loyal Catholic and, as a person sworn to defend the Constitution, support the Constitution's supposed "right" to have an abortion. To Catholics who actually accept the Church's teaching that abortion is intrinsic evil, Mr. Cuomo's remarks were and remain an outrage, analogous to Adolph Eichmann's "I owed a duty to Germany to follow orders" defense. Mr. Cuomo's speech also became the expression of the typical liberal Catholic line. Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, Governor Tom Ridge, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and others followed. Now comes Mr. Obama. President Obama has endorsed the most pro-abortion policies during his entire public life, and he continues to do so. And Notre Dame apparently seeks to honor him. The U.S Bishops are acutely and painfully aware of allegations about "Hitler's pope" and Church complicity in the Holocaust. They have a duty to oppose evil, and they are rightly concerned about a Catholic institution honoring an individual who is so devoted to legal protections for abortion. >>> So you would think. UPDATE: Suggesting that Notre Dame has placed "presitge" over "truth," the Biship of Fort Wayne-South Bend has said he will not attend Notre Dame's commencement. It will be the first one he's missed in his 25 years as bishop. powerlineblog.com