They covered up the traditional IHS symbol on the wall in Gaston Hall which would have appeared in the background above and behind Obama. It is topped by a cross.
Posted on 04/15/2009 8:04:17 PM PDT by markomalley
We have done all we can to keep our readers up to date on the continued news following the University of Notre dame's decision to invite President Obama to speak at their commencement and receive an honorary Doctor of Law Degree. The work of the Cardinal Newman Society has been at the forefront of galvanizing the extraordinary reaction of Catholics, other Christians and people of good will to this invitation.Their petition has generated over a quarter of a million responses. Students have organized under the banner of NDResponse and a growing number of alumni under Project Sycamore.
Thursday, another group of Alumni has been formed called "Replace Jenkins. ND Alumni for Restoring the Catholic Tradition to Our Lady's University."
They have a web site: http://www.replacejenkins.com/index.html
We present their statement below:
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
Good for them.
Don't know that it will do any good (nor will anything do any good until NDU's endowments start to dry up), but a good and necessary effort!
ping for your lists
Good for them but the Pope needs to publicly denounce the invitation.
I wonder if Notre Dame will have to cover up religious symbols the way Georgetown did when Obama visited?
ARE you serious? Which symbols were covered?
Good for them but the Pope needs to publicly denounce the invitation.
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That’s definitely where it has to come from. The Catholic Church is hierarchial, and Pope Benedict is the only one who can relieve this logjam at ND.
“IHS,” over the door tothe auditorium where the leader spoke.
Just for “Dear Leaders” visit???? If so, someone needs to get this out elsewhere.....
100+ replies.
Added my name to the petition even though I am not Catholic.
They covered up the traditional IHS symbol on the wall in Gaston Hall which would have appeared in the background above and behind Obama. It is topped by a cross.
Thanks - I will post tomorrow if one of the others doesn’t get to it first.
Too tired right now...
As it really looks:
As it looks from inside the stadium:
The only thing that will work is economic pressure on Notre Dame, from their own, the alums and family and friends of ND.
Do not give any money.
Do not send your children to school there.
Do not go to the football games.
Do not buy any ND merchandise.
sadly, IMO, most alums cannot help themselves, and will not be able to do these things.
The alums I have spoken with (and I am not an alum) are all for protesting, but hey, football is football.
BTTT
Shame on Georgetown for doing that.
Good.
I wanted to make sure you got these links to the ACTION news about Notre Dame: the UNINVITE OBAMA PETITION now has a phenomenal 260,982 signatures (click the link, sign up and send it to everybody in your Address Book!)
...And a BIG, BIG PROTEST IS A-COMIN' which stirs my activist imagination and makes me think Obama is gonna unite us after all :o)
Imagine 20,000 young, old, hip, square, tie-dyed, purple-haired, properly-hatted and mantilla-covered, yarmulke-wearing and rosary-praying, Catholic and not-Catholic-by-a-long-shot, All-Baby-Loving People United CLOSING DOWN THE STREETS OF SOUTH BEND singing
Please forgive me if I've pinged you more than once. I'm getting kinda excited, here... Please click on the links and get involved!
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