The Rev. John Jenkins is afraid of the consequences of disinviting Obama.
Posted on 04/11/2009 4:22:19 AM PDT by Man50D
Alumni should withdraw their support from the college...put their money where their mouth is. Money is right up there with oxygen.
This Notre Dame fiasco is a blessing in disguise for not only Catholics who believe in the true faith, but for the country as a whole. America’s alternative choice in 2008 was chilly at best. McCain was a failed candidate because even though he is ideologically much closer to Catholics’ views on Right to Life among a lot of other issues, he was weak on confronting the radical nature of Obama’s pro-abortion history, and his radical associations and beliefs. He refused to confront the Rev. Wright issue. He refused to confront Obama’s radical partial birth abortion votes in the Illinois senate. The result was a safe-haven for heretical leftists, many of them Catholics who feel very cozy warming up to Obama and all the apostasy that comes with it. There was no political challenge to them coming from the conservatives.
Finally a chance for the base to wake up and see for real the results of our apathy. We can’t be lukewarm in our faith or in our defense of our rights and responsibilities as Americans. The emboldened leftists in our church give us the imperative to decide what we are going to be as a faith, and as a country. The strong will prevail. I am thrilled we have the chance to take on the radical left so publicly and clearly.
This my friend is where this "father" lives... MONEY.
That's why the Kennedy's can get annulments and remarry in the church. That's why we have "Progressive" Catholics spreading anti-American propaganda in Central and South America. ..
But take away their money and they squeal about the little clinics with starving babies. They whine about all the "good" that occurs in missions and on and on...
The Roman Catholic church is one of the largest landowners in this country.
But the church is made up of men. Men that are flesh and blood. Those men have the same weaknesses that any man has. The weakness of the flesh, the spirit and above all else .... Pride.
The "pride" is always the best sin. Cause it's the one that screws everybody. It's the Pride that lets you do the bad deed, cause doncha know you're just a little better than the next guy.. or everybody just doesn't understand how hard YOU work compared to the next guy... etc...
The alumni with the season tickets to football, booster club and all the rest should withhold ALL contributions this year. All capital fundraising should be zeroed out this year. Make them live with the consequences of their action.
When asked why you're punishing "the students"... tell them you just want to "dialogue" about abortion and those that support it. Make them sit down with the major benefactors and "engage" in a conversation about how it's really just a choice to stick a tube in a baby's skull, inject salt water, chop up the kid and yank out the parts and put them in the garbage. Or if you screw that up, just let the baby lie on a table to die of exposure and dehydration.
As our great leader the TOTUS says..'just words".. that's all "just words".
Give Father Jenkins some Hope and Change for Notre Dame.
I hope the Irish have a crappy football season and lose to USC by 50 points and Navy by 70.
As a Catholic, I believe the most aggregious aspect of this idiotic invitation, is that it provides yet another example of how the “leaders” within the Church refuse to abide by the very teachings for which they profess to believe. In this specific situation, refusing to lead by example and serve as moral guideposts for the Faith, they send the message that certain individuals are exempt from even the most explicitly stated moral absolutes. Absolutely pathetic.
The only apostle who wasn't martyred was St. John . . . who was (not coincidentally) the only one who wasn't afraid to follow Christ to Calvary.
I sure hope that most of the students, at least, have the balls to turn their backs on 0 as he pushes for his agenda.
The Pope (the office and the man), has NEVER been interested in keeping American Catholics in line, never.
Note;
Ted Kennedy
Nancy Pelosi
Fagot Priests
Fagot Priests molesting young boys.
Bishops shielding Fagot Priests who molest young boys.
Shall I go on?
Your hyperbole is a perfect companion to your inability to close your tags.
Better brush up on the Eighth Commandment, gomer.
Has there been any word from coach Charlie “Pear Bryant” Weis about this atrocity?
Another day, another swirling bowl of anti-Catholic hate.
I do see a push for a bit more purity in the Catholics.
At least as you say the Bishops are getting the message.
II’m trying to think of any outfit that has more money. I could be wrong but the Catholic Church is about the biggest.
The Pope has always been more interested in Americans money than its salvation.
I think our thin-skinned POTUS, himself, will withdraw from the NDU invitation, needing ‘to spend more time with his family’ or some such excuse ... he really couldn’t stand the personal disapproval from the protests that will develop at the commencement.
IIRC, Clinton withdrew from a UCLA commencement address because of a strike by university employees. The SEIU or some other union may come along to help Obama out of this mess by setting up a strike at NDU.
If this were going on at my kid’s NDU graduation this year, I’d be raving furious, especially since we’d have chosen a high-priced Catholic university, and since this is to be the graduates’ day, not the speaker’s.
Hatred? I don’t think so. See #22, above. This may indeed be a blessing in disguise and gives the Catholic Church the opportunity to sieze control of issues and stress the ineluctable essence of Church dogma before it goes the way of the Episcopal Church (and others) in the USA.
The Rev. John Jenkins is afraid of the consequences of disinviting Obama.
Trust me on this one, the majority of WEALTH the Church has is in assets that are very expensive to maintain, not cash. These are assets held in trust so that future generations can be just as inspired as we are. Right now, the Church is feeling the same pinch everyone else is. There is no cash for a lot of things that need to be done, i.e., organ tuning.
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