Can they disinvite him?
The way it would work is the ND president would have to contact the WH and explain his dilemma. The WH would announce something important on that date which requires the president’s attention. We all giggle and cheer.
Maybe somebody in the White House will ‘suddenly remember’ that Dear Leader was previously booked and ‘unavailable.’
If they disinvite him then the disinvitation becomes the story—the Inquisitorial Catholic bishops leaned on the virtuous, tolerant, academic-freedom-loving marvelous university and Truth died.
The real story, that Obama is a Man of Death, thus gets lost. In the effort to make the point that Obama has sold his soul to the Culture of Death and hence ought not speak at Notre Dame, a disinvitation would end up clouding the real issue and refocusing things on how EEEEEEEEEVVVVVILLLL Catholics are. Not the “good kind of Catholics” at Notre Dame who really are intelligent (and pro-abortion) and had invited him, but those EEEEEEEEVVVVVVILLLLOLLL pro-life Catholic Taliban hacks who hate women.
It’s a no-win situation. If he speaks and gets the degree, the Doug “Catholics-can-vote-for-Obama-he’s-really-a-kind-loving-family-man” Kmiec types get vindicated and Obama rises in stature.
Disinvite him and to most of the country it’s just further proof of how dangerously intolerant Catholics are and how their bishops quash any freedom of inquiry and love of Truth so that they can continue abusing children and forcing raped women to suffer and continue to do the sorts of utterly nefarious things that we, tsk tsk can’t even mention in polite society. Off with their heads.
The bottom line is we all sink or swim with Obama now. We really don't need the old thinking of the good / bad old Catholic Church anymore. Just look at how similar they are to GM or AIG. Obama is what Catholics wanted, they voted for him, and most importantly, he won!
Now the question is only whether we will have ritual abortions to go along with the eucharist, or readings from Marx to replace the old out of touch gospel stuff.
You don't have to ask me, ask the really smart loyal Catholic folks running Notre Dame for the answers.