Posted on 05/21/2012 8:26:45 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged
Didn’t Notre Dame give him an honorary doctorate?
Since when is Notre Dame a Catholic College.
A very wealthy friend of mine cut off all big donations to ND because they invited the illegal alien pro-death muslim to the college in 2009. They ain’t seen a dime since from him.
For them to show any kind of outrage at this POS’s administration is the height of hypocrisy.
Hahahahahahaha! Karma came back and bit them.
Wow...
Let’s talk about hypocrisy, shall we.
Did they think the Scorpion wouldn’t sting them when they carried it across the river in 2008?
Georgetown can get away with poking Catholicism in the eye. Notre Dame can’t. They still have some real Catholic students there, a few good priests, and a lot of alumni who don’t appreciate things like giving a radical abortionist like Obama an honorary Doctor of Law degree—when he hasn’t even done anything to earn it. Not a single scholarly law article, even though he headed the Harvard Law Review and worked as a law professor (read untenured visiting adjunct with annual contracts) in Chicago.
Fr. Jenkins is hoping to get some creds with his angry alumni. I still say, find a new President, someone who is a real Catholic.
Whether NDU is Catholic to your satisfaction or to anyone else’s, the fact is that to the vast majority of Americans NDU IS America’s foremost Catholic university. Fordham, Georgetown, Boston College, and St. Louis do not,in their names or nationwide reputations create in the mind the Catholic image of NDU. The Golden Dome, Touchdown Jesus, and Pat O’Brien as Rockne,talking to his team about The Scool of Our Lady. All these identify NDU. Thus, it was incumbent upon its president to take this step. No matter who they invited in ‘09 to speak,Notre Dame cannot stand aside while the American Church is attacked for its beliefs. Maybe the good father wishes there was another way, but for NDU there isn’t. Its position in this country makes this move an obligation.
He has given pro-life Catholics a prominent voice in the campus. He has reformed Notre Dame in terms of banning the Vagina Dialogues from that campus.
Father Jenkins still has a ways to go, but there are good Catholics at Notre Dame.
For the Obama Commencement, the University allowed a second Commencement ceremony to be held at the same time.
So Father Jenkins was forced to give in to the protestors.
There is the famous Notre Dame 88, which has lost two of its members (one to cancer). The other, Father Norman Weslin recently passed away.
These were 88 prolifers that were arrested for being on the Notre Dame campus.
Father Jenkins and Notre Dame eventually saw all the charges dropped against these people.
The short of this is that Notre Dame has been hurt by the Obama invitation.
Hopefully the changes after the Obama invitation (increase power to prolifers on campus) will continue...
Though you may be right that Notre Dame has a ways to go to be a solidly Catholic University.
Ping
>Georgetown can get away with poking Catholicism in the eye. Notre Dame can’t.<
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It has to do with the school’s name — Notre Dame, the golden dome and statue of Our Lady.
Remove those symbols, call the school ‘South Bend University’ and nobody would know it was a Catholic institution of higher learning at one time.
Ping. I don’t know if you want to try to defend Notre Dame...
The president of ND should have been publicly and loudly chastised by what's left of the American Catholic church. An excommunication wouldn't have been too much for this heretic.
I don't care what noble background ND has had. To me, to invite this POS that lives in our White House was disgusting, and now to complain about something that this POS that lives in our White House has "declared" is 100% disgustingly hypocritical. May ND go to hell along with its complacent faculty.
Notre Dame: the same college that invited Obama to speak right after he became President?
Notre Dame: the Catholic school on one side of the country while the CATHOLIC Georgetown is inviting the HHS secretary to speak on the other side of the country?
I can’t even laugh at this anymore. :(:(:(:(:(
Yesterday, in Austin , I attended 0730 Mass and there were several cars with Obama 2012 bumper stickers.
These folks will close their eyes to Catholic teachings on abortion,traditional marriage and government mandates on the Church, just so they can continue collecting their government goodies.
In the same breath ND should renounce The One’s honorary degree. I also wonder if the 90+ faculty members that attacked Biship Jenky’s homily are on-board with this lawsuit.
Pssst...you can keep the doctorate (*wink, wink*).
If you took a snapshot of him 3 years ago, the pic could have accurately been captioned Judas Jenkins. But you know what? He isn't a snapshot. Like every person who ain't dead yet, he's a live-streaming video.
He's clearly being pushed, either by his pro-life alumni, or the "Catholic wing" of his faculty, or his CSC superiors, or his awakening conscience, or the Holy Spirit. Or all of the above. He's long been prayed for by Fr. Norm Weslin, who is, I have no doubt, still praying for him now, as Fr. Norm is sturdily positioned before the throne of the True and Rightful King.
Anyway, Jenkins is still in motion --- and when he does the right thing, he should be cheered by every man of good will.
Yes, the Judas betrayed us. But Simon Bar-Jonah denied the Lord 3 times --- totally wimped out in the face of a gabby servant girl!! --- and Saul tried to kill every Christian he could get his hands on. That was before Simon learned to live up to his name ("Rock") and Saul became Paul.
A man can change. Let's stop snarking and pray hard.
” Fr. Jenkins is hoping to get some creds with his angry alumni. I still say, find a new President, someone who is a real Catholic.”
He would fit in well in Harvard Square....maybe he could run the Harvard Coop ?
: )
That post was.....awesome. Thank you!
Did Obama get an honorary law degree from ND?
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