Posted on 03/11/2013 1:26:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
According to an article in The Observer, graduating seniors at the University of Notre Dame have mixed feelings about New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivering the 2013 Commencement address. While the article profiled three students who were supportive of the address, and three who were not, it gave more space to the students who were disappointed with the selection.
Some are concerned that Cardinal Dolan's address won’t be relevant for students. Said senior Camille Suarez:
I feel like this choice isn’t perfect for this moment. I was hoping Notre Dame would use this opportunity to kind of move the University forward, and I think this might be setting us back a couple steps.
I hope he talks about Catholic Social Teaching because I think that’s one image of the Catholic Church that needs to be promoted. I hope he makes a call to the graduating student body and encourages us to use our [Notre Dame] degrees to promote Catholic Social Teaching and help the poor and suffering.
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Disgusting. This is why I was rooting for a ND beatdown in the title game, and why every single alumnus must deny ND a single penny until the entire Administration is thrown out of their Progressive asses.
Dolan is an improvement over obama.
Since when are students of ND considered Catholics?
And I have not considered ND to a Catholic institution for some time now.
I hope he does too; he could start with Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum:
To remedy these wrongs the socialists, working on the poor man's envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all, to be administered by the State or by municipal bodies. They hold that by thus transferring property from private individuals to the community, the present mischievous state of things will be set to rights, inasmuch as each citizen will then get his fair share of whatever there is to enjoy. But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer. They are, moreover, emphatically unjust, for they would rob the lawful possessor, distort the functions of the State, and create utter confusion in the community.
I feel the same.
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